Middle Ages Research Paper

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The middle ages of Europe was all about wars and love ones. There were fighting for the food and the women. As i learned from this course it turned out that the middle ages of Europe was not all about wars, it turned out that is there is much about literary. And i will talk about the eras and the empires that have role Europe in the middle ages.

The Roman Empire was covering all the western Europe, parts of the Middle East and North Africa and a vast collection of territories. In the last few centuries of the Roman Empire, the Germanic tribes had moved into the Romanized lands in large numbers and they had long lived on the eastern fringes of the European provinces. The Germanic tribes killed off the Roman Empire with political and economic problems. Than The Germanic tribes devoted into kingdoms such as Franks and the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths and the Burgundians and finally the Anglo-Saxons. The Christianity become the official religion of the Roman Empire in the late fourth century. During the fifth century the Christian Church was you can say the base of the Empire after the Roman government collapsed because of the political and economical problems. The Christian Church was the place …show more content…

The emperors of that kingdom established new rules for for the government of the empire. During the realm of this kingdom the royal court made many written works and therefor there were many educated noblemen. While the realm of the Charlemagne the west was suffering from wars gains three groups which was the muslims from North Africa and the Vikings and the Asian Magyars and it was in the ninth and tenth century thats what made the Imperial government collapse again and again the Europe faced another political issues, but this time with small kingdoms so it made it worst with all the society issues such as noblemen and so on. This period of the middle ages in Europe called the early

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