What years were the early middle ages?

The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three "ages": the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern period. The idea of such a periodization is attributed to Flavio Biondo, an Italian Renaissance humanist historian.

The Middle Ages lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christianity in the Reformation, the rise of humanism in the Italian Renaissance, and the beginnings of European overseas expansion which allowed for the Columbian Exchange.[1][not in citation given] There is some variation in the dating of the edges of these periods which is due mainly to differences in specialization and focus of individual scholars. Commonly seen periodization ranges span the years ca. 400–476 AD (the sackings of Rome by the Visigoths to the deposing of Romulus Augustus)[2] to ca. 1453–1517 (the Fall of Constantinople to the Protestant Reformation begun with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses). Dates are approximate, and are based upon nuanced arguments; for other dating schemes and the reasoning behind them, see "periodization issues", below.

The Middle Ages witnessed the first sustained urbanization of northern and western Europe. Many modern European countries owe their origins to events unfolding in the Middle Ages; present European political boundaries are, in many regards, the result of the military and dynastic achievements during this tumultuous period.

The term "Middle Age" (medium ævum) was first coined by Flavio Biondo, an Italian humanist, in the early 15th century. The name is from the neo-Latin medium (middle) and ævum (age), being first used in 1604.[3][4] The Middle Ages are often referred to as the "medieval period" (sometimes spelled "mediaeval" or "mediæval"), also from the Latin. The adjective "medieval" only began to supersede "middle-age" in the 1880s.

After the Middle Ages ended, subsequent generations imagined, portrayed, and interpreted the Middle Ages in very different ways. Every century has created its own vision of the Middle Ages; the 16th century view of the Middle Ages was entirely different from the 19th century, which was different from the 20th century view. The different perceptions of the Middle Ages remain with us today in the form of literature, art, revival styles of architecture, film, and popular conception.

While the term "medieval period", often used synonymously with "Middle Ages", is usually used to describe a period of European history, some 20th century historians have described non-European countries as "medieval" when those countries show characteristics of "feudal" organization. The pre-Westernization period in the history of Japan, and the pre-colonial period in developed parts of sub-Saharan Africa, are also sometimes termed "medieval." These terms have fallen out of favour, as modern historians are reluctant to try to fit the history of other regions to the European model.

The early middle ages were from about 500 - 1000 AD.

This is your extra credit? How many hundreds of pages does your professor expect you to write? These are huge, sweeping questions. How much time do you have? OK, if you're in college, you have access to JSTOR via your school's library. Go find an article by Walter Goffart called "Rome's Final Conquest: the Barbarians." It was published in History Compass a couple of years ago. If you have time to read books, find Herwig Wolfram's "The Roman Empire and Its Barbarian Peoples" and Peter Brown's "Rise of Western Christendom." Whittaker's "Frontiers of the Roman Empire" is also good. There's also a useful book, author's name escapes me, the title is "Fifth Century Warlords" or "Warlords of the Fifth Century" or something like that. If you don't have time to read whole books before you write this thing, then apart from the Goffart article use JSTOR to get book reviews - two or three each - of the books I mentioned. That should give you enough of a feel for the scholarship to be able to tackle the HUGE question your prof has given you as an extra credit assignment.

Well, it is told to be any where from 400-476 AD until 1453–1517 AD but, the Middle ages more commonly reffered to as 16th century (1500s) Europe.

500 AD to 1000 AD

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1000s-1300s VERY EARLY

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