Dark Ages 500-900 AD
High Middle Ages 900-1100 AD
Late Middle Ages 1100-1400 AD
100
This significant event triggered the beginning of the Middle Ages in the year 500.
What is the fall of the Roman Empire?
100
This was the primary religion in the Middle East at the time.
What was Islam?
100
This was the year the black death struck Europe.
What was 1347?
200
The church that most Western European Christians belonged to.
What is the Catholic Church?
200
This was the military effort to drive the Muslims out of Jerusalem.
What were the crusades?
200
This period of time marked the end of the Middle Ages.
What is the Renaissance?
300
The church that most Eastern European Christians belonged to.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
300
This was the most successful of the crusades.
What was the first crusade?
300
The main symptom of the Black Death.
What were blackish swellings on a person's body?
400
The sack of Rome by this barbarian tribe signified the end of the Western Roman Empire.
Who are the Vandals?
400
This was the most disasterous of the crusades.
What was the fifth crusade?
400
Inflation, taxation, famine, plague, and war were causes of the uprisings by this group.
What were peasants?
500
Common term for seafaring Scandinavian warriors who raided coastal towns.
Who were the Vikings?
500
These nomadic herders took over Mongolia, large parts of China and Russia, and a percentage of Eastern Europe.
Who were the Mongols?
500
The main reason European people began to become aware of the world around them.
What were the Crusades?
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