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The Roman Empire began to decline from about the 2nd or 3rd century however the final nail in the coffin was when the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Romulus Augustus was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic chieftain. This led to the loss of a great amount of knowledge and began what is called the dark ages.
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After the fall of the Roman Empire a great amount of knowledge was lost and Europe entered what is known as the dark ages
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The middles ages were the time between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.
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Muhammad was a prophet who wrote the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, from revelations he got from god
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William of Normandy and the Norman army invaded modern day England. His army killed the reigning English king Harold the Seconded with an arrow to the eye.
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William I of England comprised a book that listed all that was owned in the newly conquered land and how much it was worth.
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The crusades were a series of military campaigns with the aim of retaking the holy lands for the Catholic Church. It resulted in the crusading army taking Jerusalem. This started a series of taking and retaking of the city that would last of about two century’s
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The University of Oxford is founded. The university of oxford if the oldest university in the United Kingdom
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The guilds were vital in the Middle Ages as they were an enablement that helped merchants find places where their services were needed and were a place for people of a certain perfection could come together
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Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects. The signing of the Magna Carta ment that the king did not have complete power over the people.
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The last major crusade
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The Ottoman Empire was one of the superpowers of the middle ages, it lasted up until the 1920’s
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The Black Death was a bacterial disease. It was one of if not the most devastating event ever in terms of human casualties. It killed up to 200 million people ( 30–60% of the total population). The disease was carried on rat fleas however the people did not know this at the time. The Black Death was one of the main causes of the decline of the feudal system.
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The Bible is the holy book of the christen church. It’s traslati0on into English made it more assessable then when it was in Latin. The Bible is one of the most influential books ever.
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Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake for heresy because she wore mans cloths. Although this was the official reason the real reason was that she was a girl and she turned the tide of the ‘Hundred Years War’ for the French. She was eventually made a saint on the 16th of May 1920 (489 years after her death)
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The death of Richard III at Battle of Bosworth Field heralded the end of the Middle Ages.
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Viking riders sacked the monastery no the holy island of Lindisfarne heralding the begging of the Viking age and sending shock waves through the catholic world.
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English King Alfred the Great, noteable for his sucsesful defence of England from the Vikings.
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The Viking Age was a time of terror when the people of Western Europe lived in fear of being attacked by the Norse invaders. It ended with the king of France making an agreement with the Viking leader.
