From the fall of Rome to the dawn of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages was an era of history that encompassed massive social change. A time of international warfare, national rebellion, devastating disease, and at times brutal cruelty. Here are a few of the highlights or lowlights (depending on your point of view) that occurred over the one-thousand-year period. Welcome to Medieval Madness.

00:00 Introduction
00:37 455 - The Fall of Rome
01:12 481 - Rise of the Franks
01:40 535 - The Justinian Code
02:06 570 - Muhammed is Born
02:26 597 - The First Archbishop of Canterbury
02:51 793 - The Era of the Vikings Begins
03:23 800 - Rise of the Carolingians
03:48 886 - Alfred the Great
04:01 961 - Otto the Great
04:27 1021 - The First Novel
04:43 1066 - William the Conqueror
05:09 1088 - The First University
05:36 1095 - The First Crusade
06:09 1119 - The Knights Templar
06:40 1206 - The Mongols
07:00 1215 - Magna Carta
07:21 1271 - Marco Polo
07:46 1273 - The House of Habsburg
08:18 1296 - Scottish Wars
08:53 1299 - The Ottoman Empire
09:09 1337 - The Hundred Years’ War
09:41 1347 - The Black Death
10:11 1368 - The Great Ming
10:31 1380 - The Canterbury Tales
10:49 1415 - The Battle of Agincourt
11:11 1428 - Rise of the Aztecs
11:39 1431 - Death of Joan of Arc
12:01 1434 - The Rise of the Medici
12:37 1439 - The Printing Press
13:02 1441 - Slavery
13:31 1453 - The Fall of Constantinople
13:55 1455 - Wars of the Roses
14:20 1492 - The Unification of Spain

Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions

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