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There are two different ways of looking at the Middle Ages.

Most common, perhaps, is the idea that the Middle Ages are between the fall of the West Roman Empire and the Fall of Constantinople to the Turks. This puts the Middle Ages as begin from about 476 to 1453, and the immediately preceding age is ancient times.

The other way English speaking people regard the Middle Ages is that they are the time between the Norman conquest and the rise of the Tudor Dynasty. The dates given for this are 1066 to 1485, and the immediately preceding time is the Dark Ages.

There are many other ways of dating the Middle Ages, and how they are dated often depends on the language of the historian. For example, in Finland, the Middle Ages are the time between prehistory and the modern age. Since Finland was prehistoric until the beginning of the 11th century, this dating about 1000 to 1500.

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