At its height in the second century A.D., the Roman Empire was the beacon of learning, trade, power and prosperity in the western world. But success eventually spoils. That Empire--rotten to the c...
At its height in the second century A.D., the Roman Empire was the beacon of learning, trade, power and prosperity in the western world. But success eventually spoils. That Empire--rotten to the core by the fifth century--lay open to barbarian warriors who came in wave after wave of invasion--slaughtering, stealing, and ultimately, settling. As chaos replaced culture, Europe was beset by famine, plague, persecutions, and a state of war that was so persistent it was only rarely interrupted by peace.
War would become so routine that it had a season. Every summer, warlords with names like Alaric, Clovis, and Charles the Hammer would ride out with the full force of their armies to slaughter their rivals and plunder their territories. For centuries, the entire continent was consumed in a chaotic free-for-all, as ambitious and bloodthirsty barbarians sought to build their own empires over the ashes of Rome's. These centuries, dominated as they were by both natural and manmade forces of evil, are remembered today as the Dark Ages.
But beneath this cloak of darkness were scattered rays of light--men and women who valiantly tended the flames of justice, knowledge, and innovation amidst a perfect storm of disarray. It was these brave souls--people like Charlemagne, St. Benedict and the Empress Theodora--who bridged the gap of civilization between Rome and the Renaissance. It was in the shadows of that turbulent millennium in between that the seeds of modern civilization were sown.
Ultimately, these points of light would illuminate the darkness, and Western Europe would rise from the Dark Ages to a level of cultural and political power unseen for a thousand years.
A production of KPI for The History Channel. Premieres March 4, 2007 at 9pm.
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jaskamakkra, you will live this life fine, but be re-born, the re-birth you need to worry about, you may inded be fine in this life guy, but the next is the ballance of this life, which it seems you will not do so well.
i think history tommorow will look back on our times and consider our times the darkest of all ages, we have war arround the world, famine and feast unevenly spread, it is the darkest of ages NOW.
Rome was submit or die, totally different to the Germanic way of life where the individual where a free man.,, ah to to hunt and fed yourself,, not to be a subject of others whims.. That was the way.
At least three way of life and law permeate our societies today,, Jewish Cristian,, Latin-Grecian and the Germanic. As a Roman you where a citizen of Rome,, but as a Germanic you where a citizen of one.
What have we recovered? some other mans history,, on the expense of our own.
History is now starting to repeat itself. What happened to Europe a long time ago is now going to happen to the united States, while Europe moves to a golden age of reason and peace and prosperity, the united States will move to the next Dark Age and suffer for there delusions of the man made God.
This centuries were even better than the late Roman period who was completily stagnated. And i forgot to talk about the Carolingian renaissance revolution by Charlemange...
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That was the way.
At least three way of life and law permeate our societies today,, Jewish Cristian,, Latin-Grecian and the Germanic. As a Roman you where a citizen of Rome,, but as a Germanic you where a citizen of one.
What have we recovered? some other mans history,, on the expense of our own.