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2007-10-26 15:21:11 · 2 answers · asked by Monique Fearon 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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When rome and the western empire fell, many of the tribes on the eastern banks of the river rhine took the oppurtunity to find new life and refuge in gaul. The Franks moved westward and occupied western gaul, The vandals pillaged the land down to iberian pennisula where they mastered the use of boats and took much of the land between Carthage (Modern day Tunis) and northen algeria. From there they attacked more of the islands (sicilly, corsica, sardinia) and finnally sacked rome. The saxons took sothern britannia where they fought the roman british. This lead to all of the western medditeranean and northen europe going through a period known as the dark ages. This consisted many battles between the struggling remains of roman western empire and other tribes which had now made permanent occuption if the land. Northen Europe finally became more united when charlemagne of the franks builds an empire which consists of france, germany, parts of poland, denmark, and italy. It was then at christmas day that the pope made charlemagne the holy roman empire.

2007-10-26 16:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by tomzo007 2 · 0 0

You must mean the fall of Rome after ~476 CE. What happened is that the entire organization of life in the Mediterranean world became a shambles for centuries.
That means the system of laws and justice, economics and trade, defense and security, education and learning - all became chaotic without the Roman system in place.
That system had been in place for ~ 500 years!
It was a good time perhaps if you were a barbarian chief or warrior in the countries which much later became Italy, France, and Spain, but the average person faced a most insecure life.

2007-10-26 22:49:27 · answer #2 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 0 0

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