Worldviews By slayerdude6 200 Fall of the Roman Empire 300 Middle Ages 500 Byzantine Empire Period: Oct 27, 1304 to Sep 19, 1374 Petrarch birth to death Period: Nov 24, 1343 to Nov 24, 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer birth to death Oct 18, 1347 Black Death Oct 18, 1400 City States Period: Nov 24, 1452 to Nov 24, 1519 Leonardo Da Vinci birth to death Oct 17, 1453 Renaissance Period: Dec 24, 1466 to Aug 23, 1540 Erasmus birth to death Period: Nov 24, 1467 to Nov 24, 1540 Guillaume Bude birth to death Period: Nov 24, 1478 to Nov 24, 1535 Sir Thomas More birth to death Period: Nov 24, 1494 to Nov 24, 1553 Francois Rabelais birth to death Period: Nov 24, 1500 to Nov 24, 1501 Pleiade birth to death not to sure when he was born or death Period: Nov 24, 1533 to Nov 24, 1592 Michel De Montainge birth to death Period: Nov 24, 1564 to Nov 24, 1616 William Shakespeare birth to death