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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Venice in the Late Middle Ages
Bronze horses of St. Mark's, Venice In 1204 AD, Venice agreed to help European soldiers on the Fourth Crusade. They would use their great navy to get the Crusaders to Egypt. But in exchange, the Venetians got the [...]
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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 Poland – History
The treaty that Queen Jadwiga and Duke Jogaila signed in 1385 AD Little Queen Jadwiga Queen Jadwiga was only ten years old in 1384. But her mother Elizabeth sent her north from [...]
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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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Republic of Genoa – Medieval Italy
Republic of Genoa: Medieval drawing of the city of Genoa, Italy (1493) Genoa in the Early Middle Ages Around 900 AD, the Holy Roman Empire began to lose control of Italy, and Genoa was [...]
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The Slavs – Early Slavic History
Early Slavic history: Where did the Slavs come from? A Slavic furnace from Novae, in Bulgaria (300s AD) - maybe a pottery kiln? The Slavs were Indo-Europeans The Slavs, who [...]
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Palaiologi – Fall of Constantinople
Palaiologi: Manuel II Paleologus -Second to last Byzantine Emperor The last dynasty of Byzantine emperors The Palaiologi were the last dynasty on the throne of the Roman Empire, from 1204 [...]
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Hagia Sophia – Istanbul
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (500s AD) Rioters burned the old churches The Roman emperor Constantius II built a big church next to the imperial palace in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the 300s AD. [...]
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Ottoman Turks – Medieval Islamic history
Sultan Mehmed II (by the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini, 1479 AD) After the old Seljuk kingdom in Anatolia (Turkey) fell apart, one of these Seljuks, a man named Osman, started in 1299 AD to [...]
