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  1. The 14th century BC was the century that lasted from the year 1400 BC until 1301 BC. Events. 1350 – 1250 BC: the Bajío phase of the San Lorenzo site in Mexico; large public buildings are constructed. [1] Pastoral nomadism develops in the steppes of Central Asia; cattle are watched on horseback. [2] Middle East and Africa. The Near East c. 1400 BC.

  2. Inicio. Acontecimientos. Personas destacadas. Referencias. Enlaces externos. Siglo XIV a. C. El siglo XIV antes de Cristo comenzó el 1 de enero de 1400 a. C. y terminó el 31 de diciembre de 1301 a. C. Acontecimientos. Hacia 1400 a. C.: en Creta la cultura micénica llega a su apogeo. Se abandona el palacio de Cnosos.

    • The Middle Ages: Birth of An Idea
    • The Catholic Church in The Middle Ages
    • The Middle Ages: The Rise of Islam
    • The Crusades
    • The Middle Ages: Art and Architecture
    • The Black Death
    • The Middle Ages: Economics and Society

    The phrase “Middle Ages” tells us more about the Renaissance that followed it than it does about the era itself. Starting around the 14th century, European thinkers, writers and artists began to look back and celebrate the art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Accordingly, they dismissed the period after the fall of Rome as a “Middle” or even...

    After the fall of Rome, no single state or government united the people who lived on the European continent. Instead, the Catholic Church became the most powerful institution of the medieval period. Kings, queens and other leaders derived much of their power from their alliances with and protection of the Church. In 800 CE, for example, Pope Leo II...

    Meanwhile, the Islamic world was growing larger and more powerful. After the prophet Muhammad’s death in 632 CE, Muslim armies conquered large parts of the Middle East, uniting them under the rule of a single caliph. At its height, the medieval Islamic world was more than three times bigger than all of Christendom. Under the caliphs, great cities s...

    Toward the end of the 11th century, the Catholic Church began to authorize military expeditions, or Crusades, to expel Muslim “infidels” from the Holy Land. Crusaders, who wore red crosses on their coats to advertise their status, believed that their service would guarantee the remission of their sins and ensure that they could spend all eternity i...

    Another way to show devotion to the Church was to build grand cathedrals and other ecclesiastical structures such as monasteries. Cathedrals were the largest buildings in medieval Europe, and they could be found at the center of towns and cities across the continent. Between the 10th and 13th centuries, most European cathedrals were built in the Ro...

    Between 1347 and 1350, a mysterious disease known as the " Black Death" (the bubonic plague) killed some 20 million people in Europe—30 percent of the continent’s population. It was especially deadly in cities, where it was impossible to prevent the transmission of the disease from one person to another. The plague started in Europe in October 1347...

    In medieval Europe, rural life was governed by a system scholars call “feudalism.” In a feudal society, the king granted large pieces of land called fiefs to noblemen and bishops. Landless peasants known as serfs did most of the work on the fiefs: They planted and harvested crops and gave most of the produce to the landowner. In exchange for their ...

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  3. 9 de abr. de 2024 · Defying centuries of traditional worship of the Egyptian pantheon, Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten decreed during his reign in the mid-14th century B.C.E. that his subjects were to worship only one god: the sun-disk Aten. Akhenaten is sometimes called the world’s first monotheist.

  4. Ashur-uballit I, (reigned c. 1365–30 bc), king of Assyria during Mesopotamia’s feudal age, who created the first Assyrian empire and initiated the Middle Assyrian period (14th to 12th century bc). With the help of the Hittites he destroyed the dominion of the Aryan Mitanni (a non-Semitic people.