the upheaval of the early middle ages ended not in a collapse of civilization but in its renewal and the first two early medieval centuries set the patterns for how this renewal would later take place in western and eastern Europe. the two centuries after the fall of Rome were a time of turmoil in  Europe that would continue for five hundred years a half millennium that counts as the early a part of the middle ages.
the baptism of Clovis and ivory plaque made about ad 900 depicts the founding event of the kingdom of franks four centuries earlier.
Medieval refers to the destructive civilization of the middle ages which developed in Europe after the disintegration of the roman empire
noble a member of the warrior landowner group that formed the elite of medieval Europe
486 Clovis leads Frankish confederacy against Romans and rival Germanic invaders in Gaul
527 to 565 reign of emperor Justinian in the eastern empire
542 plague hits Egypt then spreads through the Mediterranean are and much of western Europe
568 Lombard conquer most of northern Italy 570-632 life of Muhammad
595 missionaries sent by pope begin to convert the pagans of England
711 Muslim invasion of Spain
800 Slavs occupy almost all of eastern Europe