500 CE to 1450 CE
(Teachers, for your intro page please click HERE)
This unit covers the period of Medieval Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the age of the Renaissance.
To go to the first map, please click HERE
The maps include (amongst many other developments)….
- The fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of Germanic kingdoms;
- The endurance and decline of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire;
- The rise and decline of Charlemagne’s empire;
- The Viking, Magyar and Arab invasions;
- The expansion of Christendom and the formation of Russia;
- The Norman conquest of England;
- The Crusades;
- The Mongol conquest of Russia;
- The Black Death and its aftermath;
- The emergence of the Renaissance in Italy.
To go to the first map, please click HERE