The Early Middle Ages and Islam

By Álvaro Velázquez Sancho
  • Period: 400 to 1000

    THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

    The Middle Ages started with the Germanic conquest of Rome and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD and it ended with The Fall Of The Eastern Roman Empire (The Byzantine Empire). In this age Islam birth and spread.
  • Fall of Rome
    476

    Fall of Rome

    End of Rome ,end of the Western Roman Empire ,and mass migration
  • Visigoths defeated.
    507

    Visigoths defeated.

    The king of the Franks, Clovis, defeated the Visigoths at Vouillé.
  • Muslims defeated.
    732

    Muslims defeated.

    The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated the Muslims at Poitier and stoppeed their expansion in Europe.
  • Pippin the Younger became king of the Franks.
    751

    Pippin the Younger became king of the Franks.

  • Charlemagne was crowned emperor
    800

    Charlemagne was crowned emperor

  • Charlemagne died
    814

    Charlemagne died

    Charlemagne died and his son Louis the Pious succeeded him.
  • Louis´ sons divided up the empire
    843

    Louis´ sons divided up the empire

    Louis´ sons divided up the empire in the Threaty of Verdun.
  • Otto I established the Holy Roman Empire
    962

    Otto I established the Holy Roman Empire

  • Period: 1000 to 1200

    THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES

    Muslim world fragmented and began to decline. Christian did crusades to recover Jerusalem (the holy city of Christianity). Appeared the Romanesque art
  • Period: 1200 to 1400

    LATE MIDDLE AGES

    Urban population increased, the inhabitants of the cities were known as the bourgeoisie. There was a Development of Trade, Gothic Art appeared and also there were so much people that dead from the Black Death.