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Why did the collapse of the western roman empire lead to a new age in western europe?
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∙ 11y ago
Contrary to the previous answer to this question, Roman culture very much lived on.
As the Western Roman Empire neared its end the Barbarians became "Romanized" in a sense much more than the Romans became "barbarized". That is to say the least once the Western Empire officially fell every barbarian group minus the anglo-saxons took a lot of Roman culture and incorporated it into their own civilizations. The church as well which was the only standing institution left after Rome (an effect of the empire's fall) became the only place where roman culture to the biggest extent was preserved and education as well.
Anyways, now onto the major effects of the fall of the roman empire in Western Europe.
Without any huge empire to "unify" all of Europe the different groups of people became separated and secluded as culturally, militarily, and politically Europe became a giant mess and plunged into what we call the Dark Ages.
The remaining barbarians faced the huge threat of the still living Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium as Historians have come to refer to it as) not even a few centuries later when Justinian I began a huge conquest of Europe to recreate the Roman Empire. However, an even BIGGER threat to Europe was that without Rome they became very susceptible to invasions from the Muslims (who lo and behold would begin the Muslim conquest which challenged all of the Mediterranean and even wholly took over most of what we know as modern day Spain).
All this being said, the biggest effect of them all as far as I as well as my peers and teachers can conclude is that with no living organisation left it was up to the Church alone to not only preserve much of what was classical learning but also reunify the barbaric tribes under one religion. The church allied themselves with the Franks (they put their money on who they thought was the strongest tribe of them all) and the Franks were able to convert many of the other tribes to Christianity.
The fall of Rome had negative effects like plunging Europe into the Dark Ages but if it hadn't fallen then the Western world we know today could have been very much different country-wise. It also changed Religion forever with the division of Chirstianity into the Catholic and Orthodox down the road (Catholicism vs. Byzantine Christianity). The fall of Rome also led to feudalism which would ultimately end as nations united under monarchies that would slowly evolve into the very political/economical world we see today. Rome was and still is the very thing that I consider to have changed all of the Western world forever.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe collapse of the Roman Empire was terrible for western Europe becausewe had built up si much medical knowledge and a stable infrastructure. However, when the Roman Empire collapsed we were bought into the dark ages. The dark ages meant a complete liss of knowledge and we ended up reverting back to superstitions in order to explain things. The collapse lead to a new age because the uneducated and vicious scandinavian warriors burnt and destryed anyone who could read or write, they burnt books, destroyed monastries, burnt down houses and anything else that resembled civilisation. Many people during this age moved to the highlands and over two or three generations a lot of what we knew about the world including the shape of the earth was lost. If the Roman empire hadn't been bought down there is a possibility that germs and other discoveries could have been discovered over 500 years ago
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∙ 12y agoAfter the Roman decline, Western Europe entered a period of time with political, social and economic decline. It was politically divided and cut off from advanced places. There were also invaders. Trade and travel halted- it was unsafe to travel at that time. This period is called the Dark Ages.
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∙ 13y agoDo you mean the entire collapse, the western empire or the eastern empire
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The population spread out as people moved out to the country side for safety-APEX
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∙ 8y agoYou need to say what the statements are.
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Which best describes religious practices in the western Europe before and after the collapse of the roman empire?
APEX: Roman Catholicism remained the dominant religion.
What was the largest empire in the western world since the Roman Empire?
Superion Empire Superion? The largest empire in the western world since the Roman empire was the British empire.
Europe after the fall of rome?
When the western Roman empire collapsed in 476 AD, the unifying force for most of Europe was gone. Along with the loss of the government, much of the engineering abilities and modern amenities were also lost. The Barbarians of Europe did not, for the most part, have the abilities or knowledge to build roads, aqueducts or the other marvels of the Roman Empire, which is why the period immediately after Rome's collapse is often referred to as the "Dark Ages".
1 Who united Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire?
Europe is not united, and never has been. Each country within Europe has its own sovereignty and allegiances The Roman Empire never governed the whole of Europe. Much of Germany, all of Scotland and Ireland were never part of the Roman Empire. The Jutes, Angles and Saxons, for example, invaded Roman Britain from unconquered lands of Europe; the European Franks invaded the areas now called France; and the Huns and the Visigoths invaded other parts of the 'European' extent of the Roman Empire in the first 500 years AD. The fall of the Western part of the Roman Empire as often dated as 476, but individual local sovereignties had already begun to emerge by this time. After the Romans, different groups struggled for supremacy. However, not one of them achieved a united Europe. * For more information, see Related links below this box.
In western Europe the Middle Ages began after the collapse of which empire?
The Middle Ages began after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Why is Charlemagne known as the father to Europe?
Charlemagne united most of Western and Central Europe under the Carolingian Empire, which was the first new empire in Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
How did the fall of the western Roman Empire impact Europe?
The Western Roman Empire was Western Europe
What helped promote cultural unity in Europe after the collapse of the western roman empire?
The civilisation of the Germanic peoples.
What helped to promote cultural unity in Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire?
The civilisation of the Germanic peoples.
When does the western ro empire collapse?
Roman*
When was the final collapse of the western roman empire?
1453 is the year of the final collapse of the Roman empire. It is the year that Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks.
What happened after the roman empire collapsed?
Western Europe (Eastern part of the Roman Empire did not collapse and became known as the Byzantine Empire) went into a period of chaos, then arose in the feudal society (Middle Ages)
What empire came before the byzantine empire?
The Eastern Roman Empire. It became the Byzantine empire after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
What was a consequence of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire?
The Dark Age.
What is one social reason for the collapse of the western Roman Empire?
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How did Neros actions contribute to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire?
Nero's actions had nothing at all to do with the collapse of the Roman empire. He ruled roughly 300 years before the collapse.
