Middle Ages Periodization PDF

**The Middle Ages 🤔🫣** **P e r i o d i z a t i o n** **500 - 1500 ????? 1000 years period?** **(circa. 476\* A.D. C.E.\| --- circa. 1439\*\*\| 1453\*\*\*\|1492\*\*\*\*)** [An estimate of 963 years] (500 - 1500 \| 5th - 15th c.) \* The Fall of Rome - Roman Empire \*\* Printing press invention...

**The Middle Ages 🤔🫣** **P e r i o d i z a t i o n** **500 - 1500 ????? 1000 years period?** **(circa. 476\* A.D. C.E.\| --- circa. 1439\*\*\| 1453\*\*\*\|1492\*\*\*\*)** [An estimate of 963 years] (500 - 1500 \| 5th - 15th c.) \* The Fall of Rome - Roman Empire \*\* Printing press invention \*\*\* The Fall of Constantinople \*\*\*\*"The European Contact" (with what was later called America - The Americas) Age of Discovery-Exploration... \[Henry the Navigator of Portugal\] Generally, for most books, The Middle Ages is often defined as the period... From **The Fall of Rome (476 A.D.)**: the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Romulus Augustulus was deposed (by a Germanic Military Revolt) - This is considered **The End of Ancient Rome\'s Political Dominance in the West** \[from centralized Roman authority to a more fragmented political landscape\]. \[the Eastern Roman Empire, a.k.a. the Byzantine Empire, continued to exist for most of the Medieval period until its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD\] Until **The Italian Renaissance** (1350... and overlap of 150 approx. which is considered the transition between the two historical periods) **Fading (Decline) of The Renaissance...** The discovery of new trade routes following Columbus\'s voyages shifted economic power away from the Mediterranean to Atlantic nations. This decline in trade affected the wealth that had previously supported \[Italian\] Renaissance art and scholarship.