The House of Medici
The Medici were a prominent family that produced four [...]
City-States of the Italian Renaissance
During the Middle Ages, the Holy Roman Empire controlled [...]
Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press
A good cook can take leftovers and turn them [...]
Humanism
Humanism During the late 1300s, some European scholars began to [...]
The Renaissance – Dawn of a New Age
In about 1450, European scholars became more interested in studying [...]
The Middle Ages Teaching Resources
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The Black Death – The Great Plague
Nearly half of the people of Europe died during [...]
The Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is the most famous document in [...]
The Normans
Viking raids into France ravaged the countryside and led [...]
The Vikings
In 793, a party of raiding seamen attacked Lindisfarne, [...]
Primogeniture in the Middle Ages
Primogeniture is a system of inheritance where all property [...]
Feudalism in the Middle Ages
During the Middle Ages, the rulers that filled the [...]
Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire
Charlemagne ruled the most significant Western European Empire after [...]
The Franks – The Long Haired Merovingian kings
Beyond the northwest border of the Roman province of Gaul in [...]
The Moors
Muslim warriors crossed the narrow Strait of Gibraltar in [...]
The Rise of Islam
About 570CE, somewhere near the city of Mecca in [...]
The Byzantine Empire and the Crusades
By 285, the Roman Empire had become too big [...]
The Barbarians of the Middle Ages
The Romans saw themselves as having a highly advanced civilization, and [...]
The Huns
Ferocious, uncivilized, and unpredictable, the Huns were nomadic warriors [...]
Christendom in the Middle Ages
As the power of the Roman Empire faded in the first [...]
The Middle Ages: Between Ancient and Modern
In 476CE, warriors attacked the city of Rome and ended more [...]
Ancient Rome Teaching Resources
Free lessons, homework assignments, Powerpoint presentations, audio files, and YouTube videos.
The Birth of Christianity
Christianity is now the religion of over two billion [...]
Constantine and the Fall of Rome
By the fourth century, Rome was invaded by Germanic-speaking [...]
Latin and Other European Languages
Latin was the language of the Roman Empire. First [...]
Roman Technology
The Romans used great public projects to make their [...]
The Roman Empire After Caesar Augustus
Caesar Augustus had complete power in Rome, but he [...]
Caesar Augustus
Octavian was the son of Julius Caesar’s niece. The [...]
Caesar, Cleopatra, and Marc Antony
The death of Julius Caesar 44BCE led to thirteen [...]
Julius Caesar
Rome grew wealthy after the Second Punic War, but [...]