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Period: 200 to 300
Division of the Caroligian Empire
The empire divided into three parts. Each part was divided into many smaller units called feuds wich were rulle by local lords. Charlemagne´s grandsons signed a treat which confirmed the division of this empire, this was called the Treate of Verdun -
Period: 200 to 300
Germanic Invations
The germanic tribes wanted to entre the Roman Empire and plunder the Empire. -
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Period: 300 to 476
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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Period: 400 to
Christendom
The characteristics were:
Ruralization: people went to live to the countryisde.
Farming was the main activity.
Mix of Roman and Germanic cultures.
Christianity was the only religion.
The pope had religious and political power.
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Period: 476 to Oct 31, 1400
Middle Ages
It was a period of invations of the Vikings. In this period people lived and worked in a manor. This was a place with a palace, were the lord lived; arround the castle, there was a pesants village were the workers lived. The workers had to work the lands, and care of the animals.
In order to pretect the fertility of the lands, they create a three years rotation system. It was a way of harvesting the lands. They planted and harvest a land for three years, then they moved to another filed. -
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Period: Nov 14, 1100 to Nov 14, 1400
Crusades of the Middle Ages
Arab Muslims had conquered the Holly Land in 638, but the Christians were allowed to visit places associeted with life of Jesus. In the 11th century, the Muslims swept into the Middle East. By 1089 they had gained control of Jerusalem and were threatening to conquer Constantinople. In 1905 the Pope urged thousands of lords and knights to become crusaders. This means that the Christians should fight the Muslims and regain the Middle East for Christianity. As a resul there was more fragmentation. -
Nov 2, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is a document that John was forced to sign.
It had three basic principles:
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Period: Nov 7, 1400 to
Renaissance
Glogsterrenaissance
Was the rebirth of the Greco-Roman Culture. It started in Italy in the city-sates of Milan, Genova, Venice and Florence. It was cultural movement. -
Period: Nov 20, 1400 to Nov 20, 1500
Reformation and Counter Reformation
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Period: Nov 20, 1400 to
Protestantism
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Nov 2, 1431
Joan of Arc
She was a country girl who had visions of saint calling her to get rid of England. As she was tried as a witch, she was finally burnt. -
Period: Nov 19, 1492 to
Exploration of America
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Nov 21, 1492
The End of the Reconquista
This was a military process of recoving lands - Crusades
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Period: Nov 21, 1550 to
Absolutism
A appealed to Europeans in the 17th century because the long years of warefare in Europe between 1550 and 1650 brought many changes in european society and politics and led to the new political system in Europes nations. In Livithon, hobbes claimed that human beings needed absolutism because he thought that human beings were greedy. -
Period: to Nov 2, 1200
National Monarchies
•A nation is a group of people occupying the same country, under the same goverment and usually speaking tha same language.•William the conqueror won the battle of Hastings and introduced a new type of Anglo-Saxon system of government and the centralized feudalism.
•The parliament is a group of nobles, members of the elergy and representatives of the king.•The Hundred Years' Was was won by France.
•Spain became a nation because of the Reconquista.
•Italy and Germany failed to build nations.
