MEDIEVAL ERA

MIDDLE AGE
• 5th to 15th Century
• Known as Middle Age
• Started after the fall of Western Roman Empire

Highlights
• Charlemagne
• Black Death
• Hundred years war
 Printing Press
• 1440-1450

• Invented by Johannes
Gutenberg at Mainz,
Germany

• One of the most important

inventions in history.
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GUTENBERG
PRINTING PRESS
Mechanical Clock
• 723 A.D.

• Invented by monk and

mathematician I-Hsing

• An astronomical clock
called “Water Driven
Spherical Bird Eye View
Map of the Heavens”.