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The middle ages is called the middle ages because its in the middle of two different time periods, or periods of time, in which things were a certain way for a that period of time.
Some people regard the Middle Ages as beginning when the ancient times ended. Others have the ancient times ending in the middle of the 5th century, and the Middle Ages starting in the 11th. According to the first of these, the time between the ancient times and the Middle Ages is called the Early Middle Ages, but the later usage would have it be called the Dark Ages.
It was given the name middle ages because it was the years between prehistoric times and modern times.
The "dark" ages and the "middle" ages.
No or it wouldn't be called "Elizabethan" it would have been called the middle ages. Two different time periods.
Prehistory, Ancient History, Middle Ages, Modern History.
The middle ages is called the middle ages because its in the middle of two different time periods, or periods of time, in which things were a certain way for a that period of time.
As you might imagine, there isn't an exact definition, but generally Ancient History is taken to be from the start of written history - around 5,500 BCE, until the early middle-ages (or Late Antiquity) - around 400 - 500CE.
Some people regard the Middle Ages as beginning when the ancient times ended. Others have the ancient times ending in the middle of the 5th century, and the Middle Ages starting in the 11th. According to the first of these, the time between the ancient times and the Middle Ages is called the Early Middle Ages, but the later usage would have it be called the Dark Ages.
The chronological order of the time periods is typically: Prehistory, Ancient history, Middle Ages, Early Modern period, Modern era, and Contemporary era.
It was given the name middle ages because it was the years between prehistoric times and modern times.
"Ancient history" is usually deemed to have ended with the fall of the Roman Empire. Since then we have had successively the Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance period, the Early Modern Era and the Napoleontic and Victorian era. That's just Western history, of course; countries like China and Japan have their own important historical periods.
The middle ages are right between ancient times and the modern times.
Because they are in-between the modern times and the ancient times.
The "dark" ages and the "middle" ages.
From a historical standpoint it is commonly referred to as "ancient history" and lasted (roughly) from 3500 BC to 900 AD. To give a name besides "ancient history" to time before the Middle ages you would need to express it in geological Prehistoric periods, in which case you could say the "iron age" which lasted roughly from the 1300 BC to 1000 AD (you'll notice the dates are measured differently). The "iron age" was preceded by the "bronze age" and before that the "copper age".
The Middle Ages was a time between ancient and modern times.