]> 2009/04/07 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2009 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. Mappings between OpenCyc terms and Wikipedia article names provided by Olena Medelyan and Catherine Legg, University of Waikato, NZ under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. TheMiddleAges The period of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire, during which the Christian Church of Rome held considerable authority over popular culture and political action; ca. 600-1350 CE. The earlier part of the period was especially poor economically and culturally, but later years, in spite of significant advances in learning, were marred by the religious conflicts of the crusades, the reformation and the counter-reformation, and by devastating epidemics of plague and other diseases. The Middle Ages Middle Ages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages TheMiddleAges The period of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire, during which the Christian Church of Rome held considerable authority over popular culture and political action; ca. 600-1350 CE. The earlier part of the period was especially poor economically and culturally, but later years, in spite of significant advances in learning, were marred by the religious conflicts of the crusades, the reformation and the counter-reformation, and by devastating epidemics of plague and other diseases. The Middle Ages historic period The collection of significant periods of history. Examples include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQCL0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TheRenaissance</a>. HistoricPeriod Wikipedia Article URL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNv0nbm4TTjOp7yhmnzOyqg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL wikipediaArticleURL wikipediaArticleName (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTv-jk9SPTXa991kk5mAvHg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleName</a> THING NAME) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article with the title NAME Wikipedia Article Name TheMiddleAges The period of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire, during which the Christian Church of Rome held considerable authority over popular culture and political action; ca. 600-1350 CE. The earlier part of the period was especially poor economically and culturally, but later years, in spite of significant advances in learning, were marred by the religious conflicts of the crusades, the reformation and the counter-reformation, and by devastating epidemics of plague and other diseases. The Middle Ages