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Period: 476 to 1453
The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. Population decline, counterurbanisation, invasion, and movement of peoples, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued in the Early Middle Ages. -
Period: 800 to
The Holy Roman Emperior
It was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages -
1054
The East-West Schism
It is the break of communion between what are now the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox churches -
Period: 1096 to 1291
The Crusades
It was a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period. -
Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
it was a period in European history, marking the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era and covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries. The Renaissance invented its own version of humanism. -
Period: 1347 to 1351
The Black Death
It was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe. -
Period: 1378 to 1417
The Western Schism
It was a split within the Catholic Church. -
Period: 1517 to
The Reformation
It was a schism in Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther and continued by John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other Protestant Reformers in 16th-century Europe. -
Period: 1543 to
The Scientific Revolution
It was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature. -
Period: to
The Enlightenment
It was was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century.