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500
AD - FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
AFTER THE ROMAN EMPIRE CRUMBLED, THERE WAS NO LEADERSHIP, PROTECTION, OR EDUCATION ANYWHERE, REALLY. IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT IS ALSO CALLED "THE DARK AGES". -
Period: 500 to 500
Middle Ages/Midevil Times/Dark Ages
This link will take you anywhere you want to go, that is anywhere during the Middle Ages, approx. 500AD to 1500AD. -
Period: 500 to
Early Middle Ages
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Apr 7, 700
700 - 1200AD, Manor System
A Lord's estate w/castle at the center, a church, mill, farm buldings, gardens/orchards/fields, serf's cottages (formed a village). It was a way to organize the agricultural lands. -
Mar 27, 771
AD - CHARLAMAGNE BECOMES RULER OF W. EUROPE (NOT ENGLAND & SCANDANAVIA)
HE WAS WELL EDUCATED AND A CHRISTIAN WHO "PRACTICED WHAT HE PREACHED" BY HELPING OTHERS TO ALSO BE THESE THINGS. THE EMPIRE CRUMBLED AFTER HE LEFT. -
Mar 27, 1066
1066-1100'S AD - KINGS RULED ENGLAND
ENGLISH KINGS RULED JUSTLY UNTIL KING JOHN I, WHO AFTER LOST A BIG BATTLE, WAS OUSTED BY A CIVIL WAR. -
Apr 15, 1095
1214 AD - Crusades
8 major military epeditions of Christians in W. Europe to win back Palestine from Muslims (Turks). The !st one produced the most significant results. Go to this link and leave your name, class hour, and an answer.
https://docs.google.com/a/forestcity.k12.ia.us/document/d/11Tca-zq1q9-rZ1OnmIWxp5vjWOwIHE4ff3xeCXQplC0/ -
Mar 29, 1215
AD - MAGNA CARTA SIGNED BY KING JOHN
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/government/magnacarta.htm
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Apr 15, 1271
1271 AD -Trade/Silk Road
A 4,000 mile long dangerous, hard to travel, major trade route(s) beginning in Chang'an, China and ending to the west in Dunhuang. Marco Polo was a famous traveler from Italy who went clear
across Asia, taking the Silk Road. He tells about a mongol warrior, Ghengis Khan, who fought to make the Silk Road safer and united the region. Watch the following video to learn more about Marco Polo.
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Period: Apr 2, 1300 to Apr 2, 1500
Late Middle Ages
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Apr 16, 1347
1352 AD - The Plaque
Bubonic plaque, a type of disease that spread rapidly by rats who carried, and their fleas, which would then bite humans. No one knew what was causing people to die and it was able to spread faster and farther by travelers taking the Silk Road. Use this link to watch how rapidly the Black Plague spread. http://wadsworth.cengage.com/history_d/templates/student_resources/0534600069_spielvogel/InteractiveMaps/swfs/map11_1.html -
AD - VIKINGS FROM NORWAY, FINLAND, SWEDEN INVADE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMg3w6x2Ch4
(watch the above video) THE KINGDOM WAS NOW UNRULED AND VULNERABLE. AT FIRST, THEY STOLE PEOPLE'S GOODS (IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, RUSSIA, SPAIN,GERMANY, IRELAND, & ITALY). LATER, THEY SET UP TRADING ROUTES AND CENTERS. ANOTHER GROUP, THE NORMANS, SETTLED IN FRANCE, AND BECAME CHRISTIANS. -
AD - FEUDALISM (A SOCIAL STRUCTURE)
WITHOUT STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS, MORE LOCALIZED SYSTEMS CAME ABOUT TO PROVIDE PROTECTION AND JUSTICE. -
Period: to Apr 2, 1200
High Middle Ages
