Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted about from the 5th to late 15th centuries. Comparable with the post-classical period of global history. The medieval period is the middle epoch of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity.

The medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. The Middle Ages began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Modern age during the Renaissance.

The Reformation, the European wars of religion, and the Age of Discovery. Early Modernity is a single term adopted to describe this end-stage of the period. During which medieval Europe shades into the modern period.

Number of decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralised authority. Invasions, and mass migrations of tribes had begun in late antiquity (c. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period.

Including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th one hundred years, North Africa and the Middle.