MIDDLE AGES / DARK AGES / MEDIEVAL TIMES

ANCIENT TIMES   5000 B.C. --  476 A.D. 

MIDDLE AGES  476 -- 1492 

MODERN TIMES  1492 -- present 

THE VIKINGS RAVAGED EUROPE

THE VIKINGS SAILED ALL THE WAY TO NORTH AMERICA, 1001(?)

BUT THEY GET NO CREDIT / HOLIDAY

AMERICA REMAINED UNKNOWN

OUR STORY RETURNS TO MEDIEVAL EUROPE

A TIME OF KNIGHTS, LORDS, & KINGS 

AND A TIME OF STRICT CATHOLICISM

EUROPEANS WANTED GOODIES FROM THE EAST

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BUT TRADE ROUTES TO ASIA WERE LONG!!!

THE CAMEL!  eeewwwwwww!!!!!!!!!

BUT EUROPE WAS WILLING TO PAY

   1) GEMS &          2) FURNISHINGS         PRECIOUS             & WARES       METALS 

 

3) AND SPICES!!!