The earlier years of the middle ages began with question 2 options: the crusades. the search for new trade routes. the renaissance. the collapse of the roman empire.

The correct answer is:

The collapse of the Roman Empire

In Europe, The Middle Ages of Medieval Period, (V-XV century) started with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The most commonly given starting point for the Middle Ages is around 500, with the date of 476 first used by Bruni. Preceded by the classical antiquity, gave rise to The Modern Period.

The Middle Ages began with the Fall of the Roman Empire and the name of middle age was placed by the renaissance humanists because they considered it a dark period comprised between the ancient age and the modern age. The Renaissance marks the beginning of the Modern Age, a historical period that is usually established between the discovery of America in 1492 and the French Revolution in 1789 and the historical background of the Renaissance are situated in the decadence of the medieval world occurred as long fifteenth century by various factors, mainly the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire.

i think the answer is b.