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Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at what sort of recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With pointed analytic understanding, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and cultural and economic interaction that improved two vastly different worlds - the undeveloped barbarian world and the complex Roman Empire - into amazingly similar societies and areas. The book's vibrant narrative begins during Christ, when the Mediterranean group, newly united under the Romans, managed a politically complex, financially advanced, and culturally developed civilization - one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, books, stunning structures, even garbage collection. The others of Europe, on the other hand, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated basically by Germanic sound system. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these typically illiterate peoples did the trick mainly in hardwood and never built in stone. The further east one travelled, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever before less profitable economies. And yet 10 hundreds of years later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers experienced basically superseded Germanic sound system in central and Eastern European countries, literacy was growing, Christianity experienced spread, & most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. Bringing the complete of first millennium European history jointly, and challenging current arguments that migration played out but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the damage of the traditional world order in light of modern migration and globalization patterns.
