Medieval Timeline 476 CE- 1453 CE/1517

We will be working on an accurate Medieval timeline.  I will pass out graph paper in class and begin work.  This will be graded as a quiz.
Honors class will also be assigned a reading on the Bubonic Plague,
This is a good week to catch up on the missing book homework you may have.

    Medieval Timeline  476 CE- 1453 CE/1517                  

Low Middle Ages or ________________  Ages  500CE -1100CE
High Middle Ages    1100-1350 CE  

476 AD  Official Fall of _________________

570-632  Life of _______________________, founder of Islam

622  ___________________, Mohammed’s holy flight from Mecca to Medina

600- 800  Irish________________  Age

732  Battle of Tours, Charles Martel defeats  _______________, European Muslims

800-1000   _________________  invaders from Scandinavia ravage Europe

800 Coronation of Charlemagne by _________  Leo III.  The beginning of Holy Roman
     Empire (1^st Reich)

843  Treaty of ____________________  Charlemagne’s empire split into 3 parts

988  Prince Vladimir converts Kiev (Ukraine) to Orthodox _____________________ St. Cyril and Methodius sent by Byzantine Emperor invent _______________ alphabet to  
      translate Bible into Russian language
High Middle Ages 1000-1350 AD as Viking attacks end and trade begins

1054  The ____________ of the Christian Church between Roman Catholic and Greek
     Orthodox Church

1066 The Norman ____________________ of England, William the __________________
     becomes. William the _____________________

1095 Pope Urban II calls the 1^st ______________________ to save the Holy Land from Muslim control and reunite the  Church

              8 Crusades 1096-1291
The crusades in 1096, 1146, 1309 witnessed mass killing of ___________ along Rhine
1100’s Champagne trade fairs, High ____________ Ages  (growth of trade)
1204 Venetian trading rivals sack ___________________ in the 4^th Crusade

1215 King John signs the Magna ________________ protecting nobles’ rights.  Era of 
      common law and rule of law emerges in England.

1240 Mongols capture and destroy ______________, Mongols crush Kiev and rule Russia
     for 200 years

1240-1368  Mongol domination of Eurasia  It is referred to as the Mongol ___________

1275 Marco _________ visits China, ruled by Kubla Khan (Genghis Khan’s grandson)

1291  ___________ forces seize Acre, the last Christian stronghold, ______________ end

1300- Renaissance spirit emerges among Northern _____________  city states

1337 Start of the 100 Years War  between _________________ and France
100 Years War  1337-1453

1341 Petrarch become 1st poet __________________  since fall of Rome,  Renaissance
     begins

   Renaissance or Early  ______________  Period 1350-1650
1348  New outbreaks of Bubonic __________________ (Black Death) in Europe.
 Massive pogroms occur in Europe as ___________are blamed for poisoning wells 
1450 Johann Gutenberg ____________ printed,  movable ____________ invented.
1452  Leonardo da Vinci born in ____________________, Italy (near Florence)

1453 Constantinople falls to Ottoman  ________________  and  Byzantine Empire ends.

1453  End of the 100  Years War between England and ________________, home of Joan 
      of Arc

1475 Michelangelo born in ___________________, Italy

1492 Columbus sails from Spain and ____________________ New World (Americas)

1517  Martin Luther  nails his ____  __________________  on Church door in

     Wittenberg, Germany