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Back to the Dark Age: How People Adapted to the Fall of the Roman Empire
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
What did people do when the Roman empire fell apart around them? Recent scholarship, based on new archeological discoveries and techniques, argues that in the "dark" centuries between 450 and 750 AD, the people of western Europe, from conquering kings to ordinary peasants, improvised new political alliances,…
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