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The Middle Ages, Islamic Empires, and the Age of Discovery
Unit 4 Lessons 3 – 5
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• European countries scrambled to claim land and establish colonies. • These colonies made them very wealthy
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The Middle Ages
• About 500 to 1500 C.E. – from the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of the Ottoman Empire
• This was a time of castles and peasants, knights in shining armor and the Plague
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The Middle Ages
• It is sometimes called the Dark Ages, because a lot of the cultural, knowledge, science and technology that existed during the Roman Empire, was lost
• There was no central government that controlled Europe. Things were a bit chaotic.
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Islamic (Ottoman) Empires
• The Ottoman Empire control the Middle East and Eastern Europe from about 1299 C.E. until 1923.
• The capital of the empire was Constantinople (modern day Istanbul).
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The Age of Exploration & Discovery
• When the Ottoman Empire took control of Constantinople in 1453 Europeans had to find new ways to reach China and India
• This was the beginning of the Age of Exploration & Discovery
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The Age of Exploration & Discovery
• Explorers became rich by discovering gold and silver
• They also created new colonies in far away lands, where they could grow sugar, cotton, and tobacco
• Spain and Portugal were the early leaders in exploration
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