In European history, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: Antiquity, Medieval period, and Modern period. The Medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, the High, and the Late Middle Ages. 

Depopulation, deurbanisation, invasion, and movement of peoples, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued in the Early Middle Ages. The barbarian invaders, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—once part of the Eastern Roman Empire—came under the rule of the Caliphate, an Islamic empire, after conquest by Muhammad's successors. Although there were substantial changes in society and political structures, the break with Antiquity was not complete. The still-sizeable Byzantine Empire survived in the east and remained a major power. The empire's law code, the Code of Justinian, was rediscovered in Northern Italy in 1070 and became widely admired later in the Middle Ages. In the West, most kingdoms incorporated the few extant Roman institutions. Monasteries were founded as campaigns to Christianise pagan Europe continued. The Franks, under the Carolingian dynasty, briefly established the Carolingian Empire during the later 8th and early 9th century. It covered much of Western Europe, but later succumbed to the pressures of internal civil wars combined with external invasions—Vikings from the north, Magyars from the east, and Saracens from the south. QUESTIONS:

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1. What is the subject of the article?
2. What does the article discuss?
3. What is the article centered on?
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1. Is there another name for the Middle Ages?
2. Is the Middle Ages called something else?
3. Can the Middle Ages be referred to by another name?
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1. What is another name for the Middle Ages?
2. How else are the Middle Ages referred to?
3. What else are the Middle Ages called?
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1. How long were the Middle Ages?
2. How long was the medieval period?
3. What was the length of the Middle Ages?
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1. What signaled the beginning of the Middle Ages?
2. When did the Middle Ages begin?
3. What indicated the start of the medieval period?
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1. When did the medieval period end?
2. When was the end of the Middle Ages?
3. At what point did the Middle Ages come to an end?
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1. Is there a division of the Middle Ages?
2. Does history get divided up into periods?
3. Is history traditionally segmented?
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1. Is there just one division of history?
2. Does history get divided up in only one way?
3. Is there just one way of segmenting history?
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1. How many segments of history are there?
2. How many ways is history divided?
3. What is the traditional number of divisions of history?
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1. What is divided in three?
2. What has three traditional divisions?
3. Of what are there three divisions?
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1. Are there names for history's divisions?
2. Do the divisions of history have names?
3. Is there something that the divisions of history are called?
