Medieval Activities

Here is a link to some great activities to support your study of the Middle Ages. This is at Sharon Anderson's website where she sells timelines. She also has a history rhyme that goes with each history section she sells to help children learn importants events in order.

Important People of the Medieval/Early Renaissance Period

Medieval / Early Renaissance, 400—1600
Saint Augustine (writing c. 411)
Attila the Hun (c. 433—453)
King Arthur (probably killed in 537 at the Battle of Camlan)
Gregory of Tours (540—594)
Mohammed (570—632)
The Venerable Bede (672—735)
Charles Martel (688—741)
Charlemagne (ruled 768—814)
Alfred the Great (849—899)
Leif Ericsson (discovered America c. 1000)
Omar Khayyam (1027—1123)
Edward the Confessor (1042—1066)
Chrétien de Troyes (1144—1190)
Genghis Khan (b. 1155)
Thomas Aquinas (1225—1274)
Dante Alighieri (1265—1321)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340—1400)
Thomas à Kempis (1380—1471)
Jan van Eyck (c. 1390—1441)
Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1396—1468)
Sandro Botticelli (1444—1510)
Christopher Columbus (1451—1506)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452—1519)
Amerigo Vespucci (1454—1512)
Erasmus (1465—1536)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473—1543)
Michelangelo (1475—1564)
Titian (1477—1576)
Thomas More (1478—1535)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480—1521)
Martin Luther (1483—1546)
Raphael (1483—1520)
Ignatius Loyola (1491—1556)
Correggio (1494—1534)
Giovanni Angelo de’ Medici (1499—1565)
Thomas Wyatt (1503—1542)
Nostradamus (1503—1566)
John Knox (1505—1572)
John Calvin (1509—1564)
Hernando Cortés (entered Mexican capital, 1519)
Pieter Brueghel (1520—1569)
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525—1594)
Tycho Brahe (1546—1601)
Philip Sidney (1551—1586)
Walter Raleigh (1554—1618)
William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
Galileo Galilei (1564—1642)
Jan Brueghel (1568—1625)
John Donne (1572—1631)
Inigo Jones (1573—1652)
René Descartes (1596—1650)