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Obviously the starting and the ending dates are one of the most significant dates. This date is the fall of the Western Roman Empire. -
First monastery, the Benedictine order was founded at Monte Casino by Benedict of Nursia. This was a huge step in the area of spreading the teaches of the Bible and Christianity. -
From 1000 to 1300 the population had decreased by more than 2 times. This caused people moving to towns where trades could go on much easier and faster and they had more oppurtunities. Soon this developed to the creation of craft guilds and to similar markets to the nowadays' one. -
The Christian Church was divided into 2 pieces: the Roman Catholic Church and to the Eastern Orthodox Church. This helped the Christian commuities to choose between two sides where they had huge differences like if the priests were able to marry someone or not etc. Thus there were maybe less conflicts inside the Christian society. -
The Normans, led by William the Conqueror occupied the England in 1066 starting with the Battle of Hastings, continuing to Oxford and finishing at London. After this England was in the hand of French people for 4 centuries. This had several impacts on the English culture, language etc. -
Pope Urban II calls Europe together to free the Holy Land which was basically the territory of Israel especially Jerusalem. These fights led to creating the Roman Catholic Church the most powerful and wealthiest organization in Europe.We, Europeans adopted several Arabic habits and innovations such as the Arabic numerals, carpets, various spices etc. -
The nobles forced King John I to sign this law.Basically it restricted the power of the king in the judicial court in 67 points. The nobles and the burghers were both happy because it defended their rights. -
After Henry III, the young and incompetent king broke the Magna Carta Libertatum the people revolted against him, led by Simon de Monfort. They successfully managed to win the rebellion and Simon de Monfort became the governor of England. A year later they created the so called 'Monfort Parliament' which was the first ever parliament throughout the history. -
Edward I asks the parliament representatives to hold a meeting and help them to invade Wales. With this decision the English started to form what we call the United Kingdom today though it wasn't so far for non-English people for centuries. -
After a huge boom in culture in the 12th-14th century, creating Gothic and other styles in the 14th century finally a rebirth happened which used ancient Greek stye in the North f Italy, especially in Florence (it was the centre and the starting point of it) . Finally the human being was in the centre of art again. Maybe this is the richest age of our history in case of arts. Famous artists of the age are Leonarrdo di Caprio, Michelangelo, Boticelli, Raphael etc.