The Middle Ages are divided into sections by historians as follows:
The dates vary to some extent with according to the historian, with the beginning dates being 400, 410, 476 or 500, and the ending dates being 1400, 1453, 1492, or 1500.
The part called the Dark Ages was called so because there are few writings extant from the time.
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Before the middle ages was Anquity (Greeks and Romans) and after the middle ages was the Renissance
The simple answer is that the medieval period is also called the Middle Ages. There is some complexity, however. The period from the 5th through 10th centuries was called the Dark Ages, but the term Early Middle Ages is more common now. What used to be called the Middle Ages, a time from the 11th to 15th centuries, is now often counted as the High Middle Ages (1000 to 1300) and Late Middle Ages (1300 to some time in the 15th century).
the middle ages didnt have a purpose. they were a time period. im not really sure when, but it was the time of knights and lords and ladies and stuff llike that.
The Middle Ages. "Dark Ages" was invented by people living in the later Renaissance period, because they thought that living in a time without the benefit of the knowledge and full appreciation of the art and philosophiy of ancient Rome an Greece meant that you were 'living in the dark'. In reality, there was nothing 'dark' about the middle ages. It was a period full of development and discovery. "Middle" Ages simply indicates that this was the period between Antiquity and Renaissance.
The Middle Ages
Before the middle ages was Anquity (Greeks and Romans) and after the middle ages was the Renissance
The period of time from 500 AD to 1500 AD is called the Middle Ages.
The middle ages is called the middle ages because its in the middle of two different time periods, or periods of time, in which things were a certain way for a that period of time.
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The middle ages wasn't on a continent!! The middle ages was a time period, not an event. : P
The Mediaeval period is reckoned from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Arthur's time was in the sixth century, at the very beginning of the Middle Ages.
The Middle Ages covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th Century AD, to the Renaissance period in the 16th Century.
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The third period of the Middle Ages was the Late Middle Ages. The first is called the Early Middle Ages or the Dark Age. The second period was the High Middle Ages.
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