Medieval & Renaissance Europe
Knights, plagues, cathedrals, and the rebirth of learning.
The Black Death
The worst pandemic in European history arrived by ship, stayed for four years, and rearranged the continent's economy on its way out.
The Middle Ages
A thousand years of European history that gets remembered as knights, castles, and plague, and was a lot more than that.
The Vikings
They sailed to Newfoundland nearly five centuries before Columbus, and still the internet insists on putting horns on their helmets.