Rome notes

After Rome-
-the two centuries after the fall of rome were a time of turmoil in Europe that would continue for five hundred years.
- in the Germanic kingdoms that had taken over the western half of the Roman empire.
- Christendom- mix between Christianity and a kingdom
- they start speaking Greek instead of Latin

CHRONOLOGY-

FIFTH CENTURY - angles and Saxons invade Britain

486- Clovis leads Frankish confederacy against Romans and rival Germanic invaders in Gaul.

527-565 - reign of emperor Justinian in the eastern empire

542- Plague hits Egypt, then spreads and throughout the Mediterranean area  much of western Europe

568- Lombard's conquer most of northern Italy

570-632- life of Muhammad

595- missionaries sent by the pope begin to convert the pagans of England

711- Muslim invasion of Spain

800- Slavs occupy almost all of eastern Europe