Well I see it as the bridge between the ancient and modern worlds, because of all the advances in architecture, agriculture, and techonoloy in this period of time. All of these things led to or had something to do with all of things we have today. We didn't have these advances during the ancient world, and we have made major advances since then, so it's in the middle. Thus the name, the middle ages.
The modern era has seen more globalization than the Middle Ages.
The modern era has seen more globalization than the Middle Ages.
The next age after the Middle Ages was the Renaissance or Early Modern Age. There is a bit of overlap between the two, as the Renaissance is taken as beginning about 1350 and the Middle Ages ending about 1450 or so.
In the middle ages nobody had heard of atoms. They were having problems visualising a spherical world.
No. The Middle Ages is the time between the fall of the West Roman Empire and the Modern Age. Alexander's Empire was long gone when the Roman Empire was founded.