Effects of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire

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Effects of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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Decline of Trade

• Invasions from sea and land
• Destroyed roads made passage unsafe
• Destroyed cities

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Decline of Cities

• Cities are abandoned as population shifts to
  rural areas
• People looking for leadership and protection from
  large landowners
• Europe becomes a rural population

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Common Language

• Latin combines with tribal languages
• Early Romance languages evolve
• Disunity and lack of trade

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Decline in Learning

• Germanic tribes have no written language and are
  illiterate
• Priests become educated class
• Greek Latin culture only preserved in Byzantine
  Empire

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Changing Concept of Govt

• Family ties and personal loyalty become basis of
  society
• Small communities w/ unwritten laws
• Pledge loyalty to a lord rather than an unseen
  king

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Homework

• Complete pg 119-120A. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS ON PG
  120A

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