The Middle Age or The Middle Ages?

In Spanish it is only LA EDAD MEDIA (The Middle Age) a period that began in the fifth century with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and stretched to the fifteen century. Its end is marked by the the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, called Byzantium by then, and also by the arrival of Columbus to the American continent.
In English that period is called THE MIDDLE AGES. It makes sense since we are talking about roughly a thousand years of history and thus there are "three" MIDDLE AGES or periods: the Early (from the 5th to the 10th century), the High (from the 11th to the 13th centuries) and the Late Middle Ages (from the 14th to the 16th centuries). These periods are different from one another. The Early Middle Ages was a period which saw very little growth in terms of population, trade and science (this is why this specific period is popularly known as the Dark Ages). The High Middle Ages saw great progress and the nations of that time mostly prospered which all met a halt with the coming of the Late Middle Ages a period that saw the appearance of several maladies such as The Black Death and many others that reduced drastically the population of Europe in particular. this period also served to be as opening of a much brighter period in the history of mankind called the Renaissance.

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