The dark ages didn?t come to dominate the era for which it is named like the flip of a switch or by the sacking of Rome by Alaric, or any other German Chief. It wasn?t a single force; such as the struggle with the G

The Carolingian dynasty was short-lived due to an ineffective German tradition of splitting the inheritance and, therefore, the empire among Charlemagne?s three sons who soon lost influence. However, the die was cast, a future German state would later form with almost the exacting borders as the Carolingian Empire.

The real centers of western civilization that flourished were in the Byzantine Empire, and later in the Arab Caliphates. They remained centers of high culture and learning. Civilization flourished and both empires were involved greatly in trade reaching as far as the other side of the Asian continent. The Byzantines escaped the fate of their Latin cousins by maintaining a profitable economy that allowed them to pay tributes to the bordering Barbarians and that allowed for their culture to flourish.

Rome had become a corrupt political center, to become Emperor was to sign your own death warrant, therefore the only people interested were the most unskilled the empire had yet seen.

This new stability allowed for the oppo

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