Middle ages

The Middle Ages

  • The Fall oF Constantinople
    324

    The Fall oF Constantinople

    The Byzantine Empire went on for to 330 A.D then they made a good alliance with the Italian city of Genoa, together the Byzantines and Genoa dominated the Mediterranean Sea in the 1200s AD
  • The Fall Of The Roman Empire
    476

    The Fall Of The Roman Empire

    The Roman Empire colsaped in 470. if fall to the visagoth's.The last emperor of Rome Romules. Then their KingCharlemagne, was now an Emperor by decree of the Pope. For the rest of his life he did not use the title Holy Roman Emperor, but instead used the title Emperor of the Franks and Lombards.
  • Period: 476 to May 15, 1450

    The Middle Ages

  • Vikings
    May 16, 700

    Vikings

    In 860 AD, another branch of Vikings migrated south into Russia to trade with Constantinople. In Russia, the Vikings gradually mixed with the Slavs who were living there and founded the country of Russia.
  • William The Conqueror
    May 16, 1028

    William The Conqueror

    William was duke of Normandy and, as William I, the first Norman king of England. He defeated and killed the last Anglo-Saxon king of England at the Battle of Hastings.
  • The First Crusade
    May 16, 1095

    The First Crusade

    The First Crusade went on for to 1095 the urban made a speech about the clermont.Then the First Crusade People were wildly enthusiastic. Even children and old women and old men wanted to go.
  • The Magne Carta
    May 16, 1215

    The Magne Carta

    King John signing the Magna Carta
    The Magna Carta was signed in June 1215 between the barons of Medieval England and King John. 'Magna Carta' is Latin and means "Great Charter". The Magna Carta was one of the most important documents of Medieval England.
  • Medieval School
    May 16, 1300

    Medieval School

    Middle Ages, even fewer kids went to school than in the Roman Empire. People were poorer, and kids had to work in the fields weeding and harvesting and taking care of pigs and chickens. Most people never learned to read or write.
  • 100 Year War
    May 16, 1337

    100 Year War

    French king in the direct Capetian line died in 1328 AD, the English king Edward III, who already held a large part of France, claimed the right to rule all of France - to be the king of France as well as the king of England. At this time Edward III was only eighteen years old.
  • The Black Death
    May 15, 1348

    The Black Death

    Then people began to catch a terrible sickness that was spreading along Mongol trade routes from China through Central Asia to Europe beginning in 1328 AD.
    This sickness was the bubonic plague. Bacteria caused the plague, getting inside people usually when infected fleas bit them.
  • Charlemagne

    Charlemagne

    Charlemagne's name is really Charles le Magne, or Charles the Great. In German they call him Karl der Grosse, which also means Charles the Great. His father, Pippin, left Charlemagne his Frankish empire when he died in 768 AD. The Franks were already very powerful when Pippin died, but Charlemagne made them more powerful still.
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    Charlemagne

    Charlemagne's name is really Charles le Magne, or Charles the Great. In German they call him Karl der Grosse, which also means Charles the Great. His father, Pippin, left Charlemagne his Frankish empire when he died in 768 AD. The Franks were already very powerful when Pippin died, but Charlemagne made them more powerful still.