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The Early Middle Ages
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The beginning of the Middle Ages
After the third century Roman control over its northern territories gradually declined, mainly due to Germanic invasions and the Roman military weakness.The Roman empire was divided in Western and Eastern by Emperor Theodosius in 395,each one ruled by one of his sons. In 476 the last emperor of the Western Empire, Romulus Augustulus was deposed. Some historians consider this date as the beginning of the Middle Ages.
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After the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, three civilizations dominated Europe:
•The Germanic Kingdoms•The Byzantine Empire•Islam
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THE GERMANIC KINGDOMScreated by Eva Hugas
During the 5th and the 6th centuries, successive Germanic invasions put an end to the political unity of the Roman Empire. As a result, different kingdoms were created.The Germanic peoples came from the coasts of the Baltic Sea, from the forests in southern Scandinavia to the marshy areas in northern Germany and present-day Denmark. These peoples moved southwards, attracted by the splendour of Rome, in search of fertile lands and a better climate.The German peoples were organized in tribes. The maximum authority was head by the assembly of warriors and freemen. The assembly chose the chief, who made the final decisions about peace and war.
THE GERMANIC PEOPLES
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The kingdoms originated were the following ones:•The Franks, in France•The Visigoths, in Spain•The Ostrogoths, and later the Lombards, in Italy•The Angles and the Saxons, in Britain
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Europe, 500 AD
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Early Middle Ages
• Dark Ages (500 CE- 1000 CE)- scholars named this as a time when the forces of darkness (barbarians) overwhelmed the forces of light (Romans)
• Rise of influence of barbarians as Roman Emperors had granted barbarian mercenaries land with the Roman Empire in return for military service and it was these barbarians who eventually became the new rulers
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THE IBERIAN PENINSULA
At the beginning of the 6th century the Visigoths, expelled from Gaul, went to the Iberian Peninsula and founded their kingdom, which capital was Toledo.Their kingdom disappeared after the Muslim invasion in 711.
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