The Middle Ages.doc

The Middle Ages The Age of Faith Middle Ages was a period of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century The thousand year period following the fall of the Western Roman Empire is called the Middle Ages(AD500-AD1500). Historical background: Huns Europe Civilized Germanic tribes: the Angles, Saxons were pushed into Roman Empire A.D. 476, power gone Germanic kingdoms mushroomed: England, France, Spain, Italy and Germany Political unity gave way to widespread destruction and confusion Hunger (famine); disease (Black Death) Time of upheaval No central government The only organization that united Europe was: Christian Church Age of Faith Early Middle Ages (spanning roughly five centuries from AD 500 to 1000, the “Dark Ages”) High Middle Ages (AD 1000–1300) Late Middle Ages (AD 1300–1500) The beginning…Early Middle Ages Decline of Roman Empire Rise of Northern Europe New forms of government Heavy “Romanization” 罗马化(religion, language, laws, architecture, government) Latin- “medium aevum” means “middle age” and is source of English word “medieval” ?罗马帝国的衰落 ?北欧崛起 ?新的政府形式 ?重“罗马”罗马化（宗教，语言，法律，建筑，政府） ?拉丁“中aevum”的意思是“中年”和是英文单词源“中世纪” A.?? Early Middle Ages (500-1000AD.) In the so-called “Dark Ages”, civilization declined even disappeared in Western Europe. Cities were destroyed, and the intellectual activities virtually stopped. The whole West world was then ruled by numbers of barbarous tribe kings. The civilization did not disappear just because of Christianity. 在所谓的“黑暗时代”，文明拒绝甚至消失在西欧。城市被摧毁，智力活动几乎停止。整个西方世界当时由野蛮部落国王的数字。文明并没有消失，只是因为基督教。 Early Middle Ages the wars of the Eastern emperor Justinian东部查士丁尼皇帝查士丁尼战争 disastrous epidemic diseases in the 6th century (leprosy麻风病, plague, small pox, etc.) the rise of Islam and the accompanying warfare with the Arabs from the 7th century onward destructive invasions by new barbarian groups (Slavs, Huns, Vikings, etc.) 破坏性入侵新番组 Birth of Modern Languages Development of Middle Ages New languages born through