Europe was divide into countries in a way similar to what it is today in many places, primarily by language and culture. Parts of Europe were divided into many kingdoms, and other parts were not. The reasons behind the way things were varied from place to place.
The Byzantine Empire was large through much of the Middle Ages, though it tended to get smaller as time passed. France was not quite as large as it is today. The Holy Roman Empire was a good deal larger than modern Germany.
After the middle of the 10th century, England was about the same size as it is.
There a number of kingdoms within the Holy Roman Empire, but they were feudal territories inside a monarchy, much like counties or duchies. Spain was divided into small kingdoms, which gradually united. Italy had kingdoms and republics, and was basically a number of city states at some points in history.
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark were separate kingdoms, but they were united in the Kalmar Union by Queen Margaret I of Denmark.
The strongest civilizing force in Europe during the early Middle Ages was the Church.
A figurative iron curtain divided Europe into the Democratic West and Communist East. It cut Germany clean in half. Europe was constantly on its toes, each fearing the other side would strike either on them or at America, catching them in the middle.
During the early middle ages, 500 - 1000AD, Europe was a frontier land as it was sparsely populated and undeveloped. ;P
The Roman catholic church during the middle ages in Europe can best be described as a church that was a stable influence. This was during a time where central governments were weaker.
Vikings
kingdoms
After the fall of Rome what two things caused Western Europe to divide into multiple kingdoms
Europe became a patchwork of little areas of mini-kingdoms.
The history of ancient Egypt is divided into 3 kingdoms - the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom.
No one ruled Europe in its entirety. The Roman Empire was the largest country in Europe before the Middle Ages, and it was ruled by its emperors. There is a link below to a list of the Roman Emperors, and those who were emperors before 476 AD were emperors before the Middle Ages began.
The old and middle kingdoms
The history of ancient Egypt is divided into 3 kingdoms - the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom.
Who invaded Europe during the middle ages
yes he drove the Hyksos out of Egypt towards the end of the middle kingdom and then he ruled in the middle and new kingdoms.
There were many kingdoms in the European Middle Ages. There were probably kingdoms that have been forgotten to history, because much of northern and eastern Europe has no history until about 1000 AD. England was one kingdom. But before England existed as we know it, that land was in the kingdoms of Essex, Middlesex, Wessex, Mercia, Kent, Northumbria, and East Anglia, along with ten or so smaller kingdoms. After they combined, the Vikings divided off the northern part into a kingdom called the Danelaw. Spain consisted of the kingdoms of the Sueves and Visigoths at the beginning of the Middle Ages. The Visigoths conquered the Sueves. But they were conquered by Moors. And then, the people who opposed the Moors founded the kingdoms of Asturias, Galicia, Castile, Leon, Aragon, Catalonia, Navarre, and Portugal, while the Moors divided into a number of smaller kingdoms. There were kingdoms within empires. The Carolingian Empire included the Kingdom of the Franks and the Kingdom of the Lombards. The Holy Roman Empire also had kingdoms within it. The list seems endless.
Europe during the Middle Ages.
Kingdoms were the form of government during the Middle Ages