The most historians / books say that the middle ages begin around 400/500 A.C. with the destruction of the eastern gothic empire through the Huns in 375 and the fall of the western roman empire in 476 and end around 1500 A.C. with the discovery of america in 1492 and the reformation of the christian church in 1517.
military inventions usually aren't used to mark time periods in history because the military is changing all the time...
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