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300
Germanic Invasions into Rome
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395
Roman Empire was Divided/Byzantine Empire was born
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400
Romans abandoned Britain
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455
The Vandals raided and throughly sacked Rome
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476
The year the Roman Empire Fell
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500
Simple Map of the Area the Slavs occupied
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Period: 500 to 1500
The Middle Ages
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527
Justinian became Emperor
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533
The Corpus of Civil Law is finished
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570
The Birth of Muhammad
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Period: 661 to 750
The Start and End Of the Historical Jihads
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700
The Feudal System
Feudalism was a highly decentralized form of government that stressed alliances of mutual protection between monarchs and nobles of varying degrees of power. The system was based on giving land to nobles in exchange for loyalty and military aid. With the land came peasants to farm it and many powers usually reserved for governments. -
750
Expansion of Early Islamic Empire
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Period: 768 to 814
The Time of Charlemagne
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800
The Viking Invasions
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800
Creation of a Christian Roman Empire
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Period: 800 to 1000
Invasions of Europe
The expansion of the Vikings -
962
The Holy Roman Empire
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Period: 962 to
The Holy Roman Empire
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1000
Economic Expansion
Agriculture - A.D. 1000 collar harness replaced ox yoke. Horses pulled the plow faster than oxen. Farmers planted and plowed more crops. Other Technology - Writing in vernacular made literature more accessible to be people. Guilds - A.D. 1100s the guilds prohibited competition, standards of quality to protect the public from shoddy goods. Trade and Commerce - Sea-lanes and roads made it so that silks and spices could come from Asia. Money Economy - Currency stability with moneychangers -
Period: 1095 to 1099
The First Crusade
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Period: 1147 to 1149
The Second Crusade
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Period: 1189 to 1192
The Third Crusade
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1204
The Fourth Crusade
By the end of the Crusades, the European presence in the East heightened demand at home for Eastern luxury goods: spices, sugar, melons, tapestries, silk, and other items. Commerce increased in the eastern Mediterranean area and especially benefited Italian trading cities, such as Venice and Genoa. They also learned from the Muslims how to build better ships, make more accurate maps, use the magnetic compass to tell direction, and improve their weaponry. -
1211
Ghengis Khan invaded China
Even after Ghengis Khan died the Mongols continued their advance. By A.D. 1279 all of China's territory was in their hands. During the A.D. 1230s and A.D 1240s, a Mongol army led by the commander Batu conquered East Slavic lands. In A.D. 1258 the commander Helagu captured Baghdad. -
Period: 1216 to 1272
A new social class - the middle class - was emerging
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Period: 1350 to
The Italian Renaissance
Humanists led the educated public to classical values and encouraged a ferment of new ideas that eventually spread from Italy throughout Europe and reshaped European civilization. It also fashioned a new social order in which wealth and ability mattered more than aristocratic titles and ownership of land. -
Period: 1430 to 1580
The Northern Renaissance
the movable type. Books were published more quickly and less expensively. Production of humanist texts could now begin to match the newfound desire for such works. Kings and queens so eagerly supported scholars and artists that the number of humanists in the north grew rapidly along with the popularity of humanist ideas. -
1453
The Slavs take over as leaders of the Eastern Orthodox
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1517
The Reformation
Two things that I think are important from this time is the religious liberty that came from Anabaptists and the transformed Europe's religious landscape that was made due to the Lutheranism. -
A new economic policy, Mercantilism
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The American Revolution
Bill of Rights and the declaration of independence. Also proof that Enlightenment thoughts work.