Describe the features of the development of Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

1. Creation of barbarian kingdoms in the Middle Ages.

2. The struggle against the expansion of the Arabs (VIII-IX centuries), on the Iberian Peninsula, it grew into the Reconquista and lasted until 1492.

3. Crusades, from 1096 to 1270s or 1440s, depending on how you count, because they were in North Africa and the Middle East and against the Ottoman Turks and even in the Baltics.

4. The split of the church in 1054 into Orthodox and Catholics.

5. Fight against heresies (Albigensians, heretics).

6. Feudalism, the construction of castles, first in France, and then in other countries, for example, in England from the end of the XI century.

7. Viking raids, their sea expeditions to Greenland and Newfoundland, the creation of the Norman kingdoms, even in Sicily.

8. The emergence of book printing and the development of gunpowder weapons in the 15th century (guns, including ship guns, arquebus).