A.D. 0400 to A.D. 0800, First Period.
A.D. 0800 to A.D. 0964, Second Period.
A.D. 0964 to A.D. 1066, Third Period.
A.D. 1066 to A.D. 1300, Fourth Period.
A.D. 1300 to A.D. 1500, Fifth Period.
The doubling of the Cape of Good Hope being the last important event, which he places in 1497.
This is nearly the same view as taken by M. Lamé Fleury, who commences with the fall of the Western Empire in 476, and closes with the conquest of Granada by the Spaniards in 1492: thinking that memorable event, which terminated in a degree the struggle of the Western against the Eastern Empire, a better limit ("une limite plus rigoureusement exacte") than the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet II. in 1453, the date when this historical period is generally terminated by most writers.
Appended to this little volume is a list of remarkable dates and events, as also of battles and treaties during the Middle Ages.
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