Middle Ages

  • Islam
    600 BCE

    Islam

    Islam, major world religion promulgated by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century CE. Which is followed by many and is the world’s second largest religion behind Christianity.
  • Dark Ages
    476

    Dark Ages

    Migration period, also called Dark Ages or Early Middle Ages, the early medieval period of western European history—specifically, the time (476–800 CE) when there was no Roman (or Holy Roman) emperor in the West or, more generally, the period between about 500 and 1000, which was marked by frequent warfare and a virtual disappearance of urban life.
  • Feudalism
    800

    Feudalism

    The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
  • Magna Carta
    Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    It is a royal charter of rights that was greed to by King John on the 15 of June in 1215. This can also be see in our common era as it set a standard for our very own constitution.
  • The Black Death
    1300

    The Black Death

    The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. It caused for people to see life different and for people to have the survival mode mindset this can also be seen as a cause for what we know as feudalism.
  • 100 Wars
    1337

    100 Wars

    The name the Hundred Years’ War has been used by historians since the beginning of the nineteenth century to describe the long conflict that pitted the kings and kingdoms of France and England against each other from 1337 to 1453.
  • Joan of arc
    1412

    Joan of arc

    Joan of Arc, a peasant girl living in medieval France, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. With no military training, Joan convinced the embattled crown prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead a French army to the besieged city of Orléans, where it achieved a momentous victory over the English and their French allies, the Burgundians.
  • Byzantine Empire
    1453

    Byzantine Empire

    Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms and which finally fell to Ottoman Turkish onslaughts in 1453.