Middle Ages
c. 500–c. 1500
The period of European history between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 500–c. 1500
- Place
- Europe
Who was alive during Middle Ages
- Brahmagupta c. 598–c. 668, mathematician
- Wu Zetian 624–705, empress
- Rabia of Basra c. 717–801, Sufi mystic
- Al-Khwarizmi c. 780–c. 850, mathematician
- Al-Farabi c. 872–c. 950, philosopher
- Ferdowsi 940–c. 1020, poet
- Ibn al-Haytham c. 965–c. 1040, physicist
- Al-Biruni 973–c. 1050, scholar
- Omar Khayyam 1048–1131, poet
- Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179, abbess
- Averroes 1126–1198, philosopher
- Al-Jazari 1136–1206, engineer
- Leonardo Fibonacci c. 1170–c. 1250, mathematician
- Saadi Shirazi c. 1210–1291, poet
- Kublai Khan 1215–1294, emperor
- Roger Bacon c. 1219–c. 1292, philosopher of science
- Yunus Emre c. 1238–c. 1320, poet
- Giotto c. 1267–1337, painter
- Hafez c. 1315–c. 1390, poet
- Ibn Khaldun 1332–1406, historian
- Donatello c. 1386–1466, sculptor
- Cosimo de' Medici 1389–1464, banker
- Gendün Drubpa 1391–1474, Buddhist leader
- Tomás de Torquemada 1420–1498, inquisitor