Middle Ages

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Middle Ages: an overview of the era
@Nikolai Miazin, PhD in History

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Terms
Middle ages - Средневековье
medieval – средневековый
Pope - Папа римский
estate - сословие
clergy - духовенство
nobility - дворянство
knight - рыцарь
Renaissance - возрождение

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Roman Empire in 117 AD
Roman Empire fell in 476
at the result of
great migration of peoples

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Periodization of Middle Ages
• Early Middle Ages: 500 - 1000
• High Middle Ages: 1000-1300
• Late Middle Ages: 1300-1500

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Early Middle Age (500-1000)
• Feudalism
• Subsistence farming
• United Christianity

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High Middle Ages (1000-1300)
Three estates: nobility, the clergy, and
the third estate
The power of kings was limited to
powerful feudal lords
Urban development and the emergence
of universities

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Late Middle Ages (1300-1500)
• power of kings increased
• power of the feudal lords decreased
• Black Death pandemic
• liberation of the peasants
• urban and university development
• trading development