When did the Medieval era finally end?The fall of Constantinople?The discovery of the Americas?Or something else?
>>18347449The fall of constantinople was actually your mom falling down the stairs. She is so huge, it destroyed almost the entire city.
>>18347449Calling an specific moment in history as the beginning or the ending of a historical period is the worst mistake our retarded historians ever made, and with that said the middle age finally ended with the disappearance of the feudalistic sistem, the rise of professional armies, and european powers pushing away the at the time everpowerful church away from political matters
>>18347449Officially when Bracciolini and others compiled all the Carolingian script they could and started the Italian Renaissance, which lead to the Renaissance elsewhere. The lines are blurred because it was never an objective concept, people just looked at the Roman Empire with rose tinted glasses.
>>18347449Medieval ended when the Americas was discovered, beginning the age of exploration. Feudalism itself however persisted for a long time far beyond the Medieval era
>>18347449There was no "middle ages", it's just a name we gave to a period with shared characteristics. No one at the time perceived the "end of the middle ages" as a tangible change, sure, there was new land out there in the west, but that mattered to the king and the navy, no german or french nobleman cared. Besides, if you want to draw a dividing line, it inevitably has to be regional.
>>18347449It happened at different times in different places. In England the Tudor period generally marks the end of the middle ages. In Spain it would be the end of the Reconquista/discovery of the New World. Constantinople is another date. Luther is also another usable date.
