Episode 2 – Late Antiquity, 500–633 AD

The western provinces of the Roman Empire broke away from the direct authority of Constantinople, but the new Germanic elites who ruled the Latin provinces were either assimilated or half-assimilated Romans already. The Mediterranean remained one, single economic and cultural space, where Constantinople continued to set the tone.
This was to change because of two successive shocks in the east.
First, the Persian Sassanids invaded the eastern Empire and took most of it. With a massive effort, Emperor Heraclius defeated them.
The Roman triumph was short lived. A previously little known people invaded both Mesopotamia and the eastern Mediterranean, sweeping all before them … the Arabs.

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#History #European_History #Middle_Ages #Medieval_Europe

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