The Decline of Rome and Transformation into Medieval Europe: Contents 1. ... However Christianity left its mark on the world for all time, when the Emperor Constantine adopted the Christian faith as his own, and renounced the gods of Rome. ... Then came the Visigoths who sacked first Athens in 396 and then Rome in 410. ... Rome was again sacked by Genseric a vandal in 455. ... They withdrew later by the persuasion of the Patriarch of Rome, Leo I. ...

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The answer, of course, would be the Middle Ages, which spanned from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 to the exploration of the New World in the 1500's (Hartman 15). ... The transformation of life from urbanized Rome to the farming communities that trademarked medieval life did not occur instantly (Corbishley 14). For centuries, Rome had lived in fear of invasion from the numerous barbaric tribes that wanted land (Corbishley 15). ... The urban lifestyle of trade, education, and intellect from Rome had been long forgotten (Hartman 95). ... The feudal system that developed through tru...

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The Middle Ages began with the fall of the Roman Empire and ended with a great renaissance. ... This culture says that a noble man should never be one to fall victim to shame, nor is he one to hesitate when being faced by the opposition (Cantor, ed. 3). ... Between 1050 and 1300, close to fifty percent of the Rome ideal was taken over by the papal authority. ... Francis was from the upper middle class between Rome and Florence. ... It may have started with the fall of an empire, but it made progress and eventually developed into a great era....

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