anybody know the middle ages?
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Hereis a link that will explain it all to you:http://www.heraldica.org/topics/odegard/titlefaq.htm
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Probably the age of ancient empires, though you should mention to your teacher that an archaeologist told you that none of those answers are very correct.
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You've got a ton of stuff happening during the first half of the century.  Everything involving both world wars, the first flight, the Bolshevik Revolution, the San Fransisco Earthquake, the stock market crash, the depression on both sides of the Atlantic, lots of stuff.\n\nWhat are you interested in?  It helps a lot if the subject is interesting to you.  Do you want something military, cultural, political, technological, scientific?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era
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No idea, must check the history books I guess.
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can't recall but about 600-700 years old.
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1534/osa.html\nOne of 5 great mendicant religious orders founded in the middle ages\nCame from Ireland to the US in 1796\nhttp://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustinians\nnamed after Saint Augustine of Hippo\nGOOD lUck
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that must be relly old or belonging to or struck in come famous person or king of that time. try to find it out in the library or net
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Medieval Period\n500 - 1450 AD
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If you can give more clues it might be helpful - any particular historical event or time period??  Right now I am drawing a blank on all of them - I will check back to see if you can add any info.
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Read some of Zecharia Sitchins books....taken from 7000 year old text. \n\nAlso, the Bible could be speaking of the populated world at the time. Or civilization as it was known then.
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OY.  Um, the English Renaissance (circa late 1400's) or the beginning of the Italian Renaissance (circa 1350).\n\nOkay, Old English 450-1066.  450 marks the Invasion of the Romans.  1080, the Battle of Hastings and thus the French influence.  \n\nMiddle English 1066-1449 --- French influence via the Normans.  (by the way, Chaucer is the main man when it comes to Middle English --- you can see it in the way he uses French in his works --- and while it may be possible, I highly doubt anyone has done a translation of CT into Old English --- esp considering the French words had no way of existing pre-French invasion.)\n\nModern English 1450-2006  --- Discovery of the New World, and more importantly, the printing press which stabilized literature.\n\nSo, the English spoken during the Renaissance is the same as now.  HOWEVER, you're sitting there thinking, like hell it is, and you'd be right.  It has evolved, changed and so forth.  \n\nShakespeare's English is what they spoke during the Renaissance.  He will be your best bet; however, keep in mind, the rhythm he writes in is not always what was spoken.  The iambic pentameter was a fancy way to write, and a stylized way to speak, very difficult to achieve, naturally.  \n\nThat being the case, you're going to find a lot of poetry from the Renaissance and not a lot of prose.  \n\nIn college consider taking Old English and Middle English courses to see how the English language developed. The direct answer is that we speak very similarly to the way they spoke then.  The changes aren't as drastic as in the first two periods (have you ever read Beowulf in Old English---it's a bear and not many people can do it).\n\nSo, until you get into some upper division English courses (or even MA and PhD work) start by picking up a Norton Anthology of English.  You can find them hella cheap on the internet.  It doesn't have to be the latest edition.  The works don't change, just the way they're ordered in the text and some commentary about the work---maybe a shred of new info.  I bought my fifth edition recently for about 5 bucks; however, the 8th is currently selling (the complete set) for about $130.  \n\nKey notes to help you further.  The beginning of Modern English used thou, thee, and thy much more.  That is like tu versus usted i espanol.  Tu is informal whereas usted is formal.  Take the popular "Our Father" for example.  Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...\n\nThy is a show of closeness and familiarity.  If the scholars/monks translated it as [your] it would show a rigid formality uncommon in a father/child setting.  \n\nIf I can be of any further assistance, let me know.
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From the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renascence.  It has been broken into smaller periods by different historians.\n\nFrom about 300 to 500 AD the great migrations of peoples into and through Europe lead to the end of the Pax Romana and the beginnings of the medieval ages.  From then until about 800 AD and the rule of Charlemagne was often called the Dark Ages.\n\nFrom about 800 AD to 1000 AD, the power of the Church increased and lead to Latin becoming a language for scholars and trade across most of the continent.  The next 300 years or so, which are often called the High Middle Ages saw the building of cathedrals,  an increase in trade and the beginnings of the Crusades.\n\nFrom 1300 AD to the Renaissance is considered the Late Middle Ages ushering a decline in the feudal power of the land holders and a rise of the merchants.
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THe vikings in year 1000.\nI'm not joking .\nSee in\nhttp://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/vikings/oview.html
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Dark ages preceded any expansation that you are referring to....
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MEDIEVAL ECONOMICS\n\nThe people of the former Roman province of Britain in the 5th and 6th Centuries had to make their living in difficult circumstances. Around them lay the ruins of imperial grandeur. In the cities, public buildings and private houses were in decay; on the frontiers, the forts were abandoned; in the country, the aristocratic villas were crumbling. This was not just a matter of physical decline or political change because as the Roman state was dismantled, so roads, bridges and ports were neglected, the coinage disappeared, government spending ceased and the elite of the armed forces and civil administration were no longer employing labor or consuming goods on a large scale. Trade dwindled and the former mass-producing industries collapsed. The native British population faced major upheavals in their way of life, including unemployment and a breakdown in law and order. The German immigrants from across the North Sea, who had been attracted by the opulence of the province, had to adapt to a changing society. \n\nWithout trade, easy communications or imperial government, the cities could not provide a living for a large population and almost everyone lived in the countryside. Here again they had no alternative but to adapt to a restricted economy. Apart from problems of security there would be no more large surpluses to be sold in the towns. The villas were taken over by succeeding generations of native British or Anglo-Saxon immigrants who put up buildings of wood. In some cases the territory around the villa persisted as an estate unit and the owners obtained tribute from the local peasants. \n\nThe priority of country-dwellers lay in providing for their own subsistence. In southern and eastern England they lived in timber houses often measuring 15 by 30 feet, associated with smaller structures with sunken floors built for storage, craft work (such as weaving) and accomodations for servants and dependants. \n\nEven in the reduced circumstances of the post-Roman recession, households could not meet all of their consumption requirements from their own resources. They wove their own cloth and no doubt built their own houses and made implements from wood. But they needed iron weapons and farming tools and women wore ornate jewelry manufactured from copper alloy. These could only be supplied by specialists with crfating skills and raw materials so some surpluses from the land were exchanged. \n\nA society with an emphasis on production for use and which had limited facilities for exchange was not likely to be deeply stratified. Elites collected foodstuffs from the peasants in some form but they had limited ways of disposing of goods once they satisfied their followers. While the people of 5th and 6th Century England adapted successfully to their post-imperial world, this was still a traumatic process. The losses of population far outweighed the gains from migration partly as a result of plague epidemics in the 6th Century, but more as uncertainties and the lack of economic opportunity discouraged marriage and child-rearing. We can only make an educated guess at the overall figures but the sparsity of settlements, the abandonment of towns and the retreat of cultivation could point to at least halving the population. Thus numbers fell from a peak of perhaps 5 million in the 2nd Century to less than 2 million by 600 AD.
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What year and what part of the world are you referring to?