给你买钻戒的钱

给你买钻戒的钱

After Roman Empire fall to the murderous hordes of savage barbarians, the Dark Age began. The invaders who toppled the empire in the West were relatively few in numbers, were Christians who had long contact with the Romans and had become sophisticated and partially Romanized by that contact. The Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, and Vandals actually tried to restore and preserve much of Roman imperial culture and its institutions. But Justinian's reconquest overthrew some of these kingdoms and weakened others. It was the least advanced and Romanized Germanic tribes that formed the foundation of medieval European society, and the most important of these were the Franks.

There are several circumstances to allow the Franks to create the foundation of medieval European society. The first is the constantly increased population, the Franks expanded, rather than migrating, into the empire. Their population was constantly increased by men and women from the old heartland of Frankish lands. But they advanced relatively slow than other regions, so they were never in a position to be threatened, as the Vandals and other tribes had been. Second, they were protected by geography from the Muslims and eastern Romans. Neither the Muslims nor the Byzantines attempted to extend their power to the Frankish homeland far to the north. Third, their opponents were generally weak or distracted. Neither Syagrius nor the Allemanni were particularly powerful, and the Visigoths and Burgundians were troubled by the unrest of their people, who welcome the Catholic Franks and worked against their Arian masters. The fourth one is that their government was primitive. They did not try to preserve Roman institutions or the Roman system of taxation. Since one of the major reasons for the "fall" of the Roman empire in the West had been the general unwillingness to support a government that levied heavy and unfair taxes. They allowed a form of local autonomy to any place where it worked. This...

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