Keskiaika

Keskiaika

Keskiaika is the Finnish term for what is known more commonly as the Middle Ages; in a broad sense, the period between the 5th and 15th century AD (i.e., the middle period between the Classical and Modern Ages).

These concepts are only for the use of European or Western history in the larger sense; other civilizations have undergone a similar period at different times, or with different characteristics. However, Western civilization typically regards the Middle Ages as the time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, inaugurated mainly by either the discovery of the New World or the invention of movable type (either way, the mid-to-late 1400′s, long before the advent of online casino usa).

The distinguishing aspects of the Middle Ages included the rise of Christianity and the development of the various dispersed warring ‘barbarian tribes’ of Europe into increasingly urban and tentatively interconnected population centers.

The most iconic symbols of the Middle Ages are the castles and knights of the High Middle Ages, and The Crusades. The most notorious event, occurring late in this period, was The Black Death — an epidemic of bubonic plague (or maybe not…) which followed a widespread time of famine to eventually kill as much as one-third of Europe’s population.

In Finalnd, the Middle Ages are considered to cover the period between 1155 (the debated “First Swedish Crusade” of St. Eric) and the 1520s (the end of the Kalmar Union, online slots, and Gustav Vasa’s Protestant Reformation). While Finland’s Middle Ages resemble the larger trends, the slower development from agriculture to urbanization (for environmental reasons, as well as less Roman influence overall) kept the country chronologically behind by several years, if not decades. However, the relative isolation of Finland and the other Scandinavian countries also led to a lesser impact than mainland Europe felt from the Crusades and the Black Death.