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2. Middle Ages
A thousand- year period that followed the fall of Rome
4. The Middle Ages was first defined as a distict histiorical period of time
The Middle Ages was first defined as a distinct historical period in the 15th century, by scholars who saw their own time as one of great cultural progress and the revival of the Classical learning of ancient Greece and Rome (see Renaissance). These scholars thus thought of the time between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and their own time as one of decline and then stagnation. The Middle Ages came to be seen as a long period dominated by ignorance and superstition.
4. The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages cover about 1,000 years—from about ad 500 to about ad 1500. The change from ancient ways to medieval customs came so gradually, however, that it is difficult to tell exactly when the Middle Ages began. The conventional date of the beginning of the Middle Ages is ad 476, when the Germanic general Odoacer defeated the Roman general Orestes and overthrew the emperor Romulus Augustulus, ending the Western Roman Empire. (The eastern part of the empire, called the Byzantine Empire, survived for about another thousand years.) Other historians give the year 410, when Alaric, king of the Visigoths, sacked Rome. Still others say that the ancient world lasted until 750 or even 1000, when the extensive practice of slavery as in the classical world finally came to an end in western Europe.
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