Actually, there were more than three. They included kingdoms of the Franks, Burgundians, Visigoths, Suebi, Ostrogoths, Lombards, and Vandals within the area of the old West Roman Empire. In addition, there were Saxons, Frisians, Danes, Carinthians, Bavarians, and others in other parts of continental Europe. There were nearly twenty small Germanic kingdoms in Britain, including Kent, Mercia, Essex, Wessex, Sussex, Northumbria, and East Anglia, which were probably the most important.
Europe was divide into countries in a way similar to what it is today in many places, primarily by language and culture. Parts of Europe were divided into many kingdoms, and other parts were not. The reasons behind the way things were varied from place to place. The Byzantine Empire was large through much of the Middle Ages, though it tended to get smaller as time passed. France was not quite as large as it is today. The Holy Roman Empire was a good deal larger than modern Germany. After the middle of the 10th century, England was about the same size as it is. There a number of kingdoms within the Holy Roman Empire, but they were feudal territories inside a monarchy, much like counties or duchies. Spain was divided into small kingdoms, which gradually united. Italy had kingdoms and republics, and was basically a number of city states at some points in history. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark were separate kingdoms, but they were united in the Kalmar Union by Queen Margaret I of Denmark.
they were a group of people who settled in Europe and started expanding and trading with neighbors. they were also hit by the black death
guild system of Europe in Middle Ages
The strongest civilizing force in Europe during the early Middle Ages was the Church.
The Crusades increased the population of trade between Europe and the Middle East.
kingdoms
The Germanic people are a historical group of Indo-European-speaking peoples, originating in Northern Europe
Europe became a patchwork of little areas of mini-kingdoms.
The Franks were one of the western Germanic tribes. The Franks spanned the ancient and early medieval era.
After the fall of Rome what two things caused Western Europe to divide into multiple kingdoms
why did the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms fall
Groups of barbarians were responsible for a long series of raids into Europe. Included in these were everyone from Atilla the Hun to Germanic tribes and the Vikings.
Much of Western Europe, perhaps half, was in the Roman Empire or West Roman Empire. The rest of it was in tribal lands and small kingdoms.
No one ruled Europe in its entirety. The Roman Empire was the largest country in Europe before the Middle Ages, and it was ruled by its emperors. There is a link below to a list of the Roman Emperors, and those who were emperors before 476 AD were emperors before the Middle Ages began.
The Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms
Two kingdoms still existing in the Middle East are Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
One of the Egypt's kingdoms are the middle, new and old kingdom's