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).
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.
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