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The Middle Ages or medieval time is believed to have started with the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 and to have lasted about 1,000 years until about 1450. The beginning of the Middle Ages is called the Dark Ages because the great civilizations of Rome and Greece had been conquered.
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The break of communion between what are now the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox churches, which has lasted since the 11th century.
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the revival of European art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
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a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. Estimates vary, but the Black Death may have killed one-half of Europe's population, and about 100 million people worldwide.
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