Question

Answer all questions given under the heading

Middle Ages

1. Which period is named as Middle Ages?
2. What is meant by early Middle Ages?
3. Explain the Central or high Middle Ages.
4. What represented the later Middle Ages?

Answer 1

1. Historians call the period between the end of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 A.D. as the Middle Ages.
2. In the early Middle Ages, Christianity, followed by Islam, began to establish itself as the dominant religion of continental Europe.
3. The central or high Middle Ages witnessed rapid development, marked by territorial expansion, demographic and” urban growth, and the restructuring of secular and ecclesiastical institutions.
4. The later Middle Ages was represented by the feudal system. This was followed by a period of decline and decay.