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276
Burgundians
They settled in the Rhone Valley and that gave name to the present region of Burgundy. -
400
The birth of the Carolingian Empire
The Franks were a Germanic people created the most powerful kingdom in Europe at the beginning of the Middle Ages. -
476
Decline of the Roman Empire
The first centuries of the Middle Ages are characterized by the configuration of three areas in the Western world: the kingdoms of Germanic, the Byzantine Empire and the Arab world -
481
Franks
It was established in North Wales and were the seed of the future France. They emphasized two dynasties: the Merovingian and Carolingian. -
511
Franks
It ended when the Carolingian Empire formed a strong that was the basis of feudal Europe. -
527
Home Justinian the Great Reign
He rebuilt the Roman Empire. Italy also dominated and lost land and were reigned by the Germans and Muslims -
534
Burgundians
The Franks were defeated and joined his kingdom -
570
Muhammad
Merchant from Mecca, he preached a new religion: Islam. Practitioners have called musualmans and the Koran as a holy book. It is a monotheistic religion that has Allah as the only God. -
570
The birth of Islam
The Arabs were a nomadic people made and traders Arabian Peninsula. The cities of Mecca and Medina were centers of commerce.
Practitioners of Islam are called Muslims. It is a monotheistic religion that has Allah as the only God -
572
Leovigildo
King was in the Visigoth kingdom coincided with the peak of the Visigoth kingdom -
572
Visigoths
Settled in southern Gaul and the Iberian Peninsula. -
586
Recared
Renounced the Arian heresy and became Catholicism and achieve religious unity of the Peninsula -
Oct 21, 601
Recared
End of the reign of Recaredo -
Oct 21, 622
The expansion of Islam with Muhammad
From Medina Muhammad organized an army that conquered Mecca, the first and the rest of the Arabian Peninsula. Thus began the expansion of Islam. -
Oct 20, 632
Muhammad
After the death of Muhammad begins the phase of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs -
Oct 22, 632
Islam after Muhammad
After the death of Muhammad begins the phase of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs. They had been direct collaborators of the prophet and they start the division between Sunni and Shiite -
Oct 21, 672
Recceswinth
Ended with a work that influenced the Spanish law -
Oct 22, 814
The end of the figure of Charlemagne
It ended when King Charlemagne to end his reign. -
Oct 22, 814
The division of the Carolingian Empire
Charlemagne Louis the Pious succeeded him and began a period of rebellion that led to the decline of the Empire. -
Oct 22, 840
The end of the division of the Carolingian Empire
He finished three years before the Treaty of Verdun -
Oct 21, 867
The splendours of the Byzantine Empire
The period of maximum splendor of the Byzantine Empire lasted two hundred years, was a great power miltar. -
Oct 21, 1054
The decline of the Byzantine Empire
The religious figths were brake in the Byzantine world, struggles iconoclasts, the order of the Emperor Leo III, destroying religious images.
