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Part II: Essay #2
Middle Ages were a period in history of Europe that lasted from about 350 to about 1450 AD. The western half of the Roman Empire began to section into smaller, weaker kingdoms at the beginning of the Middle Ages. Many European states had taken shape by the end of the Middle Ages.
There was no one particular event that ended the ancient world and began the Middle Ages. In fact, no one who lived in what is now called the Middle Ages ever thought of themselves as living in it. In the middle Ages, people thought they were living in modern times, just as people do today.
Since the Middle ages covered such a large span of time, historians divided it into three parts: the early Middle Ages, lasting from about 350 to about 1050; the High Middle Ages, lasting from 1050 to about 1300; and the Late Middle Ages, lasting from about 1300 to about 1450.
Historians used to believe that most of the cultural, economic, and political achievements of the Middle Ages occurred in......

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