The Middle Ages/Medieval Times (476 AD – 1500s AD) The Fall of Rome -Rome controlled __________ and offered protection in the form of ____________ and ________________ -when Rome fell, those protections no longer existed (people were __________) The Dark Ages -the ______________ of The Middle Ages -Roman ___________ fell into disrepair, Roman cities were _____________, people did not feel safe to _____________ -people searched for ways to replace the protection that Rome once offered Manorialism -the manor became the ____________ of early medieval life -central to the manor was the __________ -_____________ was the primary activity, but everything needed to survive was provided on the manor ____________________