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by lifeisstillgood
4865 days ago
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being seen as a continuation of the Roman Empire is not the same as providing the material benefits of the Roman Empire. In my view the Dark Ages were a rolling back of the benefits of a continent-wide peaceful trading bloc and a scramble to find a non-anarchic equilibrium from which everyone could rebuild. The multiple sackings of Rome however really made contemporaries realise Rome had fallen (and probably drove everyone to look for a solution closer to home - just the wrong move in Economics 101) |
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