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Description: created by Dionysius Exiguus to enumerate the years in his Easter table.
Significance: to replace the the Diocletian era that had been used in an old Easter table. -
Description: collections of law and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantines emperor.
Significance: it rationalized hundreds of years of existing roman statues. -
Description: a journey especially when undertaken to escape froma dangerous or undesirable situation.
Significance: the prophet Muhammad completes his Hegira from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution. -
Description: also called the movement of the men of the black raiment was the overthrow of the Umayyad caliphate.
Significance: this revolution marked the end of the Arab empire and the beginning of a more inclusive, multiethnic state in the Middle East. -
Description: Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III.
Significance: in this role he encouraged the Carolingian renaissance, a cultural and intellectual revival in Europe. -
Description: this treaty divided the Frankish Empire into 3 kingdoms among the surviving sons of the Emperor Luis the Pious.
Significance: partitioning of the Carolingian empire. -
Description: invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Normans, Bretons, Flemish and men from other french provinces.
Significance: the Norman conquest broke England's links with Denmark and Norway and connected the country to Normandy and Europe. -
Description: military expeditions organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expantion.
Significance: the objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from the islamic rule. -
Description: an architectural style in Europe that lasted from the mid 12th century to the 16th century.
Significance: style of masonry building characterixed by cavernous spaces with the expanse of walls broken up by overlaid tracery. -
Description: he was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.
Significance: largest contiguous empire in history, he united many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. -
Description: this siege took place in Baghdad in 1258 lasting for 13 days.
Significance: the siege, laid by Ilkhanate Mongol forces and allied troops, involved the sack of Baghdad, which was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate at that time. -
Description: the Divine Comedy is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri.
Significance: this is one of the most important works of medieval literature. An imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. -
Description: it was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353.
Significance: it is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa
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