Middle Ages476 - 1400

The Gauls in RomeFrancois Guizot, 1883

Battaile de Tolbiac 496(19th century painting of Clovis leading the

Franks to victory in Gaul)

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Abbasid Caliphate, ~850

Islamic portrayal of Aristotle (on right)

Charlemagne and the PopeAntoine Verard, 1493

Marco Polo's travels

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From Hortus DeliciarumHerrad von Landsberg, ~1180

Renaissance1400 - 1600

The AmbassadorsHans Holbein, 1533

Scientific Revolution

1543 - 1800

Shakespeare and Marlowe

From Harmonia Macrocosmica(1660)

Engraving celebrating the activities of the Académie des Sciences, 1698.

Enlightenment(aka Age of Reason)

1700-1800

Kant and Rousseau