The word illumination correctly refers to a picture that includes gold leaf, either as a background to the picture or in the details of the design (sometimes both). The gold picks up and reflects any light and appears to shine of its own accord - hence it "illuminates" the page.
An initial letter, for example, that is decorated with colours and interwoven designs but no gold leaf is termed "historiated" or simply "decorated".
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Since they didn't have electricity, they used fire, whether it was a small one on a stick (a torch) or a big one in a hole in the wall (a hearth).
There was no explorers in the middle ages. When exploration started that is when the middle ages ended.
Before the middle ages was Anquity (Greeks and Romans) and after the middle ages was the Renissance
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The 'middle ages' is also known as the 'medieval period'.
The fall of Rome in 410 AD