Rome is destroyed

  • The Catholic Church Takes Over
    500

    The Catholic Church Takes Over

    The Church owned many large areas of farmland. People who grew crops on this land had to give one tenth of everything they grew to the Church. This was called the Tithe. This was a lot of crops for many poor people to lose. It controlled people’s beliefs. The Church told people that when they died, their souls lived on either in Heaven or in Hell, they said, was a place of great pain and suffering. The people were understandably frightened of going there. So, the Church gave them hope.
  • Charlamagne
    Sep 26, 700

    Charlamagne

    Charlamagne was the greatest ruler during the middle ages.
  • The Crusades
    Sep 26, 1095

    The Crusades

    Pope Urban II and the Catholic Church set a goal to reacces to the holy lands between the christians and muslims.
  • The Renaissanse
    Sep 26, 1450

    The Renaissanse

    Rennasaince means rebirth of the rome and greek empire during the crusades they developed knowledge and trade.
  • Sep 26, 1492

    Columbus discovers America

    Christopher Columbus tried to find a water route to India with avoiding Italy and instead he discovered America
  • The Protestant Reformation
    Sep 26, 1517

    The Protestant Reformation

    all the trade developing in the midle east Martin Luther read the Bible and discovered the Catholic Church was lying starting the Protestant reformation.
  • Rome is destroyed

    Rome is destroyed

    Rome was the biggest empire... The fall of Roman Empire was an ongoing process that continued for over hundreds of years. The legend has it that Rome was not built in a day, and most historians believe that it was not destroyed in a day either. All the major events that contributed to the Fall of Rome have been categorized into different periods.