1. Fall of Rome Charlemagne's Empire Middle Ages – 3 stages
The Middle Ages
Fall of Rome
Charlemagne's Empire
Middle Ages – 3 stages

2. Fall of Rome

3. Rome Collapses
Why does Rome collapse? Well Good Question. The empire was too big to manage effectively, invaders from the East and the North threatened many cities and people eventually left making it even harder to govern people.
In approximately 500 the Roman Empire collapses.
People fled From the countryside from invaders from the north and the east
No central government to maintain roads, waterways, or public systems
Long distance travel became unsafe so trade became less common

4. Changing Empires
Roman Empire

5. Charlemagne
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) reunited much of Europe. He built his empire by He restored the church based education and revived Roman imperial government. The empire did not survive his 814 death. His sons divided territory and rulers after lacked talent. Local lords and city-states separated and went their own ways.

6. The Middle Ages
-Though this era is often referred to as one period of time,
this is not the case.
-The middle ages (Medieval era) is divided in three periods:
The Early Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages
The Late Middle Ages
These periods do not have DEFINTE dates.

7. The Early Middle Ages Often called the Dark Ages
Begins with the fall of Rome
Reign of Charlemagne
Christianity spread through Europe
The birth and rapid expansion of Islam

8. The High Middle Ages Crusades
Papacy struggles with secular governments
Intellectual renaissance
Universities established in Paris, Oxford, and Bologna
Explosion of stone-castle building
Construction of magnificent cathedrals in Europe
Feudalism was firmly established
Trade flourished
Europe was at an economic and cultural height

9. The Late Middle Ages:
 The Black Death wiped out up to 50% of the population
The church suffered reduced status when some of its priests refused to minister to the dying during the plague but enjoyed enormous profits in bequests from plague victims.
People began looking after each other which sowed the seeds of human rights