THE MIDDLE AGE

750 BC: The Celts  















Stonehenge









476AD: The fall of roman empire

450AD: The anglo-saxons arrived in Great Britain.





 675-1000 AD: Beowulf, an anglo-saxon epic poem

500 AD: the beginning of islam with islamic expansion










INVENTIONS: greek fire








673AD: viking invasions

800AD: Charlemagne bring education for all the people and also for a little part of the women.

1066: the norman conquest 
William the Conqueror arrived in Great Britain









1096: the christians are attacking. The crusades 

1154: Henri II began to rule.












1164: the Constitutions of Clarendon. 

Thomas Becket refused it and he was murdered in Canterbury cathedral.







1215: Magna carta to limit royal power













1216: In Europe we have the birth of universities.

• Bologna 
• Parigi
• Oxford

New inventions like compass and spinning wheel.

1337-1453: the Hundred years war.

1350: the Black Death

1343: Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales.

1436: the invention of printing press.

1455: the War of the roses 









1492: Colombus discovers 
America










..The beginning of a new era: the Renaissance