2. • Dates from 500 AD to 1500 AD
• Covers time from the fall of Roman
empire to the rise of Ottoman
empire.
• Known as the Dak Ages because
of constant warfare, absence of
Holy Roman Emperor, and the
virtual disappearance of urban life.
3. • It was the period of the fall of the Roman empire where local kings and rulers tried to
grab powers.
• Richard I, also known as, Richard the Lionheart became the king of England.
• The Mongol Empire was founded by Gengkis Khan.
• Marco Polo left for his famous journey to explore Asia.
• Joan of Arc, a French heroine was executed by the English at the age of 19.
• Charlemagne, King of Franks, was crowned as the Holy Roman Emperor, he united
much of Western Europe and was considered “The Father of French ang German
Monarchies.”
• The Ottoman empire captured the city of Constantinople.
4. • Richard I was King of England from
1189 until his death. He also ruled as
Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and
Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count
of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and
Nantes, and was overlord of Brittany
at various times during the same
period.
5. • Marco Polo was a Venetian
merchant,explorer, and writer who travelled
through Asia along the Silk Road between
1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in
The Travels of Marco Polo (also known as
Book of the Marvels of the World and Il
Milione, c. 1300), a book that described to
Europeans the then mysterious culture and
inner workings of the Eastern world, including
the wealth and great size of the Mongol
Empire and China in the Yuan Dynasty, giving
their first comprehensive look into China,
Persia, India, Japan and other Asian cities and
countries.
6. • Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of
Orléans", is considered a heroine of France for
her role during the Lancastrian phase of the
Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a
Roman Catholic saint. She was born to Jacques
d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at
Domrémy in northeast France.
• On 23 May 1430, she was captured at
Compiègne by the Burgundian faction, a group
of French nobles allied with the English. She
was later handed over to the English and put on
trial by the pro-English bishop Pierre Cauchon
on a variety of charges. After Cauchon declared
her guilty, she was burned at the stake on 30
May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age.
7. • Genghis Khan, also officially Genghis
Emperor, was the founder and first Great
Khan and Emperor of the Mongol Empire,
which became the largest contiguous empire
in history after his death. He came to power
by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of
Northeast Asia.
8. • Charlemagne was the King of the Franks from
768, the King of the Lombard's from 774, and the
Emperor of the Romans from 800. During the
Early Middle Ages, he united the majority of
western and central Europe. He was the first
recognized emperor to rule from western Europe
since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three
centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state
that Charlemagne founded is called the
Carolingian Empire. He was later canonized by
Antipope Paschal III.
9. • German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg, invented the printing press.
• The Black Death was the name for a terrible disease that spread
throughout Europe from 1347 to 1350. There was no cure for the
disease, and it was highly contagions. Today, this disease is called
“The Bubonic Plague”
10. • Johannes Gutenberg was a German
goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher
who introduced printing to Europe with the
printing press. He designed and built the
first printing press to incorporate movable
type and mechanized inking and for using
his invention to produce the Gutenberg
Bible.
• A printing press is a mechanical device
for applying pressure to an inked surface
resting upon a print medium, thereby
transferring the ink.
11.
12. • The Black Death was the
deadliest pandemic recorded in
human history. The Black Death
resulted in the deaths of up to
75–200 million people in Eurasia
and North Africa, peaking in
Europe from 1347 to 1351.
