Knights, castles, and the medieval world.
2 quizzesThe Middle Ages — roughly from the fall of Rome in 476 CE to the dawn of the Renaissance around 1500 — were far more dynamic than the common cliché of a 'dark age' suggests. Across a thousand years, feudal kingdoms rose and fell, the Black Death reshaped European demographics, the Crusades entangled three major religions, and cathedral builders pushed stone to impossible heights in honor of God.
This era produced some of the most enduring cultural and political institutions of Western civilization: Magna Carta, Gothic architecture, the Hanseatic League, Islamic scholarship that preserved classical knowledge, Viking exploration reaching North America, and the emergence of universities. Meanwhile in Asia, the Mongol Empire created the largest contiguous land empire in history, and in Africa the Mali Empire controlled more gold than most of Europe.
How well do you know this pivotal millennium? From castle sieges to illuminated manuscripts, from chivalric codes to the Hundred Years' War, put your medieval knowledge to the ultimate test and explore the era that laid the foundations of the modern world.
