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The Roman Empire last 1-2 millienia until September 4th 476 A.D. when a barbarian named Odoacer, deposed the last Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus. romulus considered Odoacer a threat but didn't assassinate him, instead he put Odocaer into retirement.
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During the Arab invasion in Morocco, there was an important general involved called Gibril Tarik. In 711 A.D, General Gibril Tarik, which was accompanied with 100 horses and 400 African soldiers, crossed Spain and on a mission. With Gibril's army, he conquered several small towns. Later on that year, he took an army of 7000 African soldiers which were crossing from Africa to Gibraltar therefore defeating King Roderic and conquering most of Iberian Peninsula. This ended in 1492.
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In January, Edward the confessor, king of England, died. He had no children to replace him as king so instead by law, his brother Harold became king. but Harold had two enemies. One of them was his own brother Tostig and the other was William, the duke of Normandy. Some people say that Edward promised William the throne and that Harold made a promise to help William aswell. Great wars went on such as the Battle of Hastings. Eventually Harold died in less than a year and William became king.
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the first crusade marks a turning point in the history of Europe. This marks the first major war vanquishment launched from western europe since the fall of the Roman Empire. The period before this event was the rise of the Seljuk empire. In 1097, the defeat of Byzantium at Manzikert took place as their conquest in Jerusalem which made pilgrimage much more dangerous.
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This period is called the Middle Mississippian period and in this period pottery dominated ceramic assemblages and social political at many sites were different. In 1100 A.D, Native American houses were scattered all over Tennessee. Earthern burial and platform mounds surrounded a central plaza area. There were also houses living beyond the burial and platform mounds, corncribs, storage structures, storage pits and other features were typically associated with these houses.
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Minamoto no Yoritomo was the first warrior government. In 1158 at the age of twelve, he received his first court title and shortly after that, he got appointed to administartor. At the end of that year, Minamoto Yoritomo lost the Hogen War to he Taira forces. Twenty years later in 1180, a dis pleased prince Mochihito'o issued an imperial command calling the Minamoto to rise against the Tiara who were under the leadership of Taira no Kiyomori.
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When Richard the Lionhearted died in 1199 A.D, his younger brother John became king. The lords of England hated John. This was partly because John had taxed everyone so much pay for the third crusade and partly because John seems to have been a nasty suspicious kind of person. compared to Philippe Augustus, who was king of France at the same time, John looked weak. Philippe Augustus sent a supporter Arthur to murder John. The Pope got sick of John so they forced him to sign a Great Letter.
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By the time Henry II had established his King's Council, the High court had avchieved such a reutation that the vast number of petitions presented to it, made it necessary for the King's Council to set up three committees to deal with them. These committees were known as Common Pleas and it was when these three committees met together in one body that we found the word parliament.
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After spending more than 3, 000 American soldiers and well over $300 billion in Iraq, the coalition of literary critism and liberal interventionists who brought America into the quagmire. Just as the crusaders a millenium ago blamed their defeats in the Middle East on a lack of faith. But the bebacle that is Iraq reaffirms the lesson that there is no such thing as a good crusade.
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Fighting started in the hundred years' war because of the Kings of England, descendents of William the conquerer who still spoke French, wanted to rule France aswell. France was temptingly weak and divided. It began with the English king already ruling a large part of France and it ended with him ruling hardly any, but with what is now Nord-Pas de Calais split off under foreign rule for several centuries.
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In October 1347, galleys carrying refugees from the conquered Genoese colonies in the Crimea brought the plague to Western Europe. In the course of the next few years, a truly appalling number of people died and an indelible mark was left on European History. Different parts of the oriental world have been mentioned as the probable locality of the first appearance of the plague or prestilence known as the black death but its origin is most generally reffered to China
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Medieval England experienced few revolts but the most serious one was the Peasants' revolt which took place in June 1381. A violent system of punishments for offends was usually enough to put of peasants from causing trouble. Most areas in England also had castles in which soldiers were garrisoned and these were usually enough to guarantee reasonable behaviour among medieval peasants.
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The extensive 15th century sources that have survived concerning the life and military compaigns of Joan of Arc iclude the transcript of her trial in 1431, the posthumous investigations of her case in 1450 and 1452, aswell as letters, chronicles and thousands of military records. These provid us with vivid eyewitness accounts from the people who know her, correspondence from her commanders and the ltters she dictated to scribes. Her life is reasonably well documented.
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after the 1430s, the tide of the war turned to the advantage of the French. There were several reasons for this. seward notes that this had become a national war rather than the feudal conflict it started out to be. The French came to think of themselves as french over these years and of the English as the invaders and aggressors. The English faced a series of rebellions in their territories making it necessary for them to divert resources to hold past seizures.
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Henry was the first Tudor king after defeating Richard III at the battle of Bosworth in August 1485. The battle saw the end of the wars of the roses which had brought instability to England. Henry VII was king of England from 1485 to 1509. His second son, also called Henry, inherited the throne and became Henry VIII. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I tend to dominate Tudor history and their lives do overshadow the importance of Henry VII's reign.
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Famous viking ships had alot of success while raiding the European coasts. For the first slaughters and raids that they had controlled in part of 793 A.D, they had finally moved to explore the rest of the british Isles.
