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beginning of the middle ages
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the middle ages ended by the discovery of America
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Clodoveo dies and his kingdom is divided between his 2 children
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mohammed birth
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Battle of Guadalete
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The Enlightenment was a reformist movement of the 18th century that defended the
use of the “light” of reason to transform society, the natural rights of humans and tolerance
as a basis for coexistence. Enlightenment thinkers opposed the traditional class system and
defended a system of legal equality in which all citizens could progress according to their
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Society at the beginning of the 18th century was still essentially based on agriculture
and livestock. But halfway through this century, in europe, the First Industrial Revolution.
New sources of energy appeared. Machinery started to be used in textile production and
agriculture, as well as to transport goods, and work started to be organised in a different
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The period that we know as the Classical period in music is called Neoclassicism in the rest of the arts. This artistic movement was a reaction to the excesses of the Baroque period. It was inspired by the more restrained models of the classical world and defended
the use of reason as a tool to achieve balance and beauty. -