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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.
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ViviYes. Of course, we only use those terms looking backwards. People living IN the Middle Ages didn't think of themselves as living in "middle ages": they thought they were in Modern Times.
At present, we sort of divide history up into "Ancient" (from the first cities to the Fall of Rome is AD 476; the "Middle Ages" usually ending with Columbus in 1492 and the Modern World thereafter. This is all arbitrary and is based on events which may have seemed only moderately significant at the time, but which were later determined to have been turning points. Some people prefer to use the invention of the printing press rather than the discovery of the Americas to mark the Modern era.
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How is the modern era different from the Middle Ages?
The modern era has seen more globalization than the Middle Ages.
How is modern era different from middle age era?
The modern era has seen more globalization than the Middle Ages.
What is the name of the era after 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 who believed in atoms?
In the middle ages nobody had heard of atoms. They were having problems visualising a spherical world.
Is the period between the empire of Alexander the great and the modern age known as the middle ages?
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.
