Early Middle Ages and Stuff

Breakdown of Roman society

The breakdown of Roman society was dramatic. The patchwork of petty rulers was incapable of supporting the depth of civic infrastructure required to maintain libraries, public baths, arenas, and major educational institutions. Any new building was on a far smaller scale than before. The social effects of the fracture of the Roman state were manifold. Cities and merchants lost the economic benefits of safe conditions for trade and manufacture, and intellectual development suffered from the loss of a unified cultural and educational milieu of far-ranging connections.

As it became unsafe to travel or carry goods over any distance, there was a collapse in trade and manufacture for export. The major industries that depended on long-distance trade, such as large-scale pottery manufacture, vanished almost overnight in places like Britain. Whereas sites like Tintagel in Cornwall (the extreme southwest of modern day England) had managed to obtain supplies of Mediterranean luxury goods well into the 6th century, this connection was now lost.

Between the 5th and 8th centuries, new peoples and powerful individuals filled the political void left by Roman centralized government. Germanic tribes established regional hegemonies within the former boundaries of the Empire, creating divided, decentralized kingdoms like those of the Ostrogoths in Italy, the Suevi in Gallaecia, the Visigoths in Hispania, the Franks and Burgundians in Gaul and western Germany, the Angles and the Saxons in Britain, and the Vandals in North Africa.

Roman landholders beyond the confines of city walls were also vulnerable to extreme changes, and they could not simply pack up their land and move elsewhere. Some were dispossessed and fled to Byzantine regions; others quickly pledged their allegiances to their new rulers. In areas like Spain and Italy, this often meant little more than acknowledging a new overlord, while Roman forms of law and religion could be maintained. In other areas, where there was a greater weight of population movement, it might be necessary to adopt new modes of dress, language, and custom.

The Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries of the Persian Empire, Roman Syria, Roman Egypt, Roman North Africa, Visigothic Spain, Sicily and southern Italy eroded the area of the Roman Empire and controlled strategic areas of the Mediterranean. By the end of the 8th century, the former Western Roman Empire was decentralized and overwhelmingly rural.

Socities Evolutions

Societies have left many legados and important events they had. Those were religious offers, trades, obras of arte, victories, hazañas, etc. All this legados have been found by many researches and archeologists who are interested in this things. After this, the mayority of societies have been trans-

formed into modern and advanceds civilizations.

Hello! Indian Resarchers

Hola. Acá encontraras información sobre los American Indians.

Los indios américanos fueron los primeros pobladores de Estados Unidos. Viven desde hace casi 30 000 años pero fueron descubiertos en 1492 por Cristobal Colón (el descubrimiento de América).

Todo comenzó cuando un grupo de colonos dirigidos por John Cabot quisieron colonizar Norteamérica empezaron un viaje a América en 1497. Pasaron aproximadamente 100 años para que los conquistadores empiecen su movimiento. Los colonos empezaron a colonizar cuando se enteraron de que los Españoles estaban encontrando mucha plata en Sudamérica. Los primeros inmigrantes llegaron a Roanoke Island en 1585. Después de alguno días, otro barco llegó a Roanoke Island, pero no encontaron a ninguno de los que habían llegado unos días atrás. Los colonos regresaron nuevamente a Norteamérica en 1607. Ahí colonizaron la ciudad de Jamestown en Virginia. En ese lugar los colonos empezaron a sembrar tabaco porque les gustaba fumar. Pero no eran los colonos quienes sembraban el tabaco, sino unos esclavos Africanos, quienes llegaron en 1619.

Después en 1620, otra colonia inglesa llegó a Norteamérica llamados los Pilgrims. Ya que los Indios Americanos no entendían a los Pilgrims, en ese tiempo los asesinaban. Pasó un tiempo y los Pilgrims se molestaron y llamaron al ejército colono para hacerles guerra a los indios americanos y llevarse sus tierra. Así fue como empezó la guerra entre los Indios Américanos y los Colonos. Pero fue prácticamente imposible para los indios vencer a los colonos, gracias a la diferencia de armas y el número de soldados. Un tiempo después, los colonos hicieron un acuerdo en hacer como un tipo de reserva para los Indios Americanos, donde podrían vivir.

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