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Originally Posted by rayliotta
Europe didn't know "civilisation" even after centuries of Roman rule?
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Europe was controlled by the Empire, but not much civilized by it. When the Empire waned the region degraded into a collection of roaming, warring tribes: the Huns, Angles, Saxons, Slavs, Franks, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Goths, Vandals, etc. They comprise what we know as "the Dark Ages." Without the Christian monks there, all written literature from this period would have been lost from this area. These tribes simply weren't interested in preserving antiquity.