The document provides an overview of the Middle Ages in Europe from 476 AD to 1350 AD. It describes the major characteristics including the blending of Germanic, Christian, and Greco-Roman cultures. The Roman Catholic Church and papacy dominated religion, politics, and society. Most people lived rurally in small villages with low literacy. Feudalism emerged as a social and political system. The Middle Ages are divided into the Early, High, and Late periods featuring developments like the rise of monastic orders, growth of cities, universities, and literature in common languages. The Black Death pandemic significantly reduced the population in the Late Middle Ages.

1. THE MIDDLE AGES AN INTRODUCTION

3. @ 476 AD-1350 PERIOD FROM THE DECLINE OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE RENAISSANCE

4. MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES

8. MAJOR DIVISIONS OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY

11. Charlemagne

12. THE TREATY OF VERDUN CHARLEMAGNE’S KINGDOM IS DIVIDED

13. FEUDALISM EARLY AND HIGH MIDDLE AGES

25. MEDIEVAL MONASTICISM “ THE MONASTIC ORDERS CIVILIZED EUROPE WITH CROSS, BOOK, AND PLOUGH.”

27. ST BENEDICT

28. THE MONKS CIVILIZED MEDIEVAL EUROPE WITH

38. THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN CIVILIZAITON