What comes first the dark ages or the medieval ages?
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The Dark Ages came first, then the Middle Ages, or Mediaeval period.  Here is an excellent timeline on both (in Britain):\n\nhttp://www.tradamis.co.uk/dark.htm\n\n(Go to the bottom to 1066, then click for the next page!)
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The 16th century is for Spain the "Golden Century", as the Spanish Empire was growing (Americas) and the country was rich thanks to America's gold and silver. Certainly the first power in Europe at the time, as Spain was ruling the Low Countries (Holland and Belgium now), +/- half of Italy, Austria (which means present Austria, Czech Republic, part of Hungary and Yugoslavia), parts of present France.\n\nHave a look at wikipedia, link below:
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Islam is a a leftover remnant of the Middle Ages. Just as it would be a bad idea to listen to a doctor who practiced Middle Ages medicine (e.g. bleeding people?) and to listen to politicians from the Middle Ages (e.g. Machiavelli's Prince), it is a bad idea to blindly practice religions from the Dark Ages.\n\nChristians will tell you that Christianity is old like that, but if you look at the modern churches, they are very different and have changed, modernized. The ones that haven't modernized (polygamist Mormons, for instance) are negative influences on peoples lives. And yes, the same goes for Shinto and Hindu, look at the way that Shinto was used to justify WWII in Japan, and how some Hindus today are going on racist murderous rampages.
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In the Middle Ages, believe it or not, "Poor" was not a clearly defined concept. The fuedal system meant that [by and large] everyone had a useful role in society. It is not until people were redundent that poverty became an issue.\n\nSome answers seem to think the Middle Ages and The Middle of the second Millenium are the same thing. They are not. The Middle Ages is the period in Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire about 750ad to about 1500ad The Middle Ages had finished by 1600
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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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The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three "ages": the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modern Times. The Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the Western Roman Empire (5th century) until the rise of national monarchies, the start of European overseas exploration, the humanist revival, and the Protestant Reformation starting in 1517. These various changes all mark the beginning of the Early Modern period that preceded the Industrial Revolution.\n\nThe Middle Ages are commonly referred to as the medieval period or simply medieval (sometimes spelled "mediaeval" or, historically, "mediæval").
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me·di·e·val also me·di·ae·val (mē'dē-ē'vəl, mĕd'ē-, mĭ-dē'vəl) \nadj. also Medieval\nRelating or belonging to the Middle Ages.\nInformal. Old-fashioned; unenlightened: parents with a medieval attitude toward dating.\n[From New Latin medium aevum, the middle age : Latin, neuter of medius, middle + Latin aevum, age.]\n\nme'di·e'val·ly adv. ( http://www.answers.com/medieval&r=67 )\n\nMedieval — The Medieval era is a period spanning from ca. 400 to ca. 1500, also known as the middle ages.\n( http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval )\n\nMediaeval &#92;Me`di*[ae]"val&#92;, a. [L. medius middle + aevum age. See Middle, and Age.]\n\nOf or relating to the Middle Ages; as, medi[ae]val architecture. [Written also medieval.]\n\n\n\nSource: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)\n \n \n \n \n\nMedieval &#92;Me`di*e"val&#92;, Medievalism &#92;Me`di*e"val*ism&#92;, Medievalist &#92;Me`di*e"val*ist&#92; . Same as Medi?val, Medi?valism, etc.\n\nSource: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)\n( http://www.dictionary.net/medieval )
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The best site about the subject is\nInternet Medieval Sourcebook located at the \nFordham University Center for Medieval Studies\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html\nIt has everything one wants to know on this period.\nOthers sites are\nhttp://www.medtimes.org/\nhttp://www.medievaltimes.com/
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He united western Europe I believe in the 9th century.  The Franks and Germanic tribes were united into the Holy Roman Empire.  He brought back academia, and was a huge patron of the arts.  After his death his empire split into pieces, some of which were ruled by his grandchildren.  I think his most notable contribution, other than starting the Holy Roman Empire, was bringing back an interest in antiquity (the ancient world: Rome & Greece).
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If i were you, I would choose the neolithic revolution and then the bubonic plague.\n\nI'll give some contentions as to why:\nNeolithic revolution - set foundations humans built upon. first agricultural societies which led to sedentary developments. Without it we'd all be nomads scouring the land for food with no domesticated crops or animals.\nBubonic Plague - Killed off 40% of the population and led to a decrease in serfdom and an increase in wages for competant workers were harder to find (supply and demand) World before plague was at a population it wouldn't reach until at least 200 years after it.
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Probably Thebes.  Depends on which Kingdom (Old, Middle, New) you want, which millenium BC you want.  Dig into the Ancient Egypt article in Wikipedia.
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There wasn't really such a gap.  People like to say that there was because there was so little exploration and prospertiy during the dark ages, but the truth is that European scholars of the middle ages like Descartes, Copernicus, and St. Augustine (just to name a few) made significant advances in every field of study.  Rennaissance scholarship only continued what they were working on.  Arab scholars who lived during the time of the European dark ages also made significant advances, most notably to mathematics, so if you accept this false idea of some sort of gap in European learning it makes sense to assume that Muslims were the only ones keeping it going.
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This is not going to get you excited about it at all... but I'll go ahead and say it:\n\nTake a college class on either World Civilizations, European History, or World History, \n\n~~~~~ preferably if it is about during and everything after the 1200s C.E. ~~~~~\n\nYou will understand that everything you believe in was a purely human effort. Understanding the history, the reasons why things are the way they are, will place you above these things.
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They focused on the idea of chivalry in a time when lords and knights had little morals to guide them.  The Arthurian legends helped introduce the idea of chivalry to the upper classes of Europe in the Middle Ages.
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"Purgatory", "original sin" and many other contrivances and rituals are purely inventions of the Roman Catholic Church when the early church elders in Rome decided to connive with Emperor Constantine, the high priest of the pagan religion [Sol Invictus] in 325 AD, to become the most powerful church in the entire Holy Roman Empire... and ruled for 1300 years that our history books have known to call as 'The Dark Ages'.\n\nBoth those words cannot be found in any Bible today no matter how many times you read it from cover to cover.\n\nI'm glad that you're finally beginning to open your eyes, too.
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Try reading about it here. the western empire fell in 476AD, and the eastern fell in 1453
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If we count sundials, we are talking ancients.  Even water clocks and timed candles (with lines on them for how long it burns in an hour) are pretty ancient.