Jews in Medieval Europe – History
Jewish money-lenders in medieval France - Jews in medieval Europe A hard time for the Jews The Middle Ages in Europe were a difficult time for the Jews. Many Jews lived [...]
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Renaissance Science in Europe
Copernicus, a Renaissance astronomer Starting in the 1200s AD, as Europe got richer, great universities got started there. In the later Middle Ages, West Asia and India suffered from the Mongol invasions. West Asian people were too poor to [...]
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Medicine in Medieval Europe
Sick children from medieval Europe What sicknesses did medieval Europeans get? During the Middle Ages, most people were sick with something for most of their lives. Newborns were often born small [...]
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Petrarch – Late medieval Italy
A portrait of Petrarch Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca in Italian) was born in 1304 AD in Arezzo, in northern Italy. His father was a lawyer, and when Petrarch was a teenager his father made [...]
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Boccaccio – Decameron – Medieval literature
Florence, Italy Who was Boccaccio? Most of the people who knew how to write in the early Middle Ages were monks. So most of them wrote about serious things like God and [...]
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Late Middle Ages – history of Europe
Burying people who died of plague - the Late Middle Ages The Mongol Empire In the Late Middle Ages, the Mongol Empire brought peace to most of Asia, and encouraged trade along the Silk [...]
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Late medieval Russia – History
Church of Yuriev-Polsky (1200s) By the 1200s AD, Russia was weak from civil wars. So the Mongols attacked Russia and forced the eastern part into the Mongol empire. The Mongol empire made it [...]
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Late medieval Hungary
Late medieval Hungary: Mongols kill Hungarians at the Battle of Mohi (1241 AD) The Mongols invade Hungary Hungary fell on hard times in 1241 AD, when the Mongols invaded Eastern Europe from Central Asia. [...]
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The Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
A person with a bubo from bubonic plague on their leg What was the bubonic plague? Bubonic plague (along with smallpox) was one of the most feared diseases of the ancient [...]
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Hundred Years’ War – Medieval Europe
The place where the British burned Joan of Arc alive in Rouen during the Hundred Years' War The last Capetian king When the last French king in the direct Capetian line died [...]
