The Viking raids gave fear to many people around Europe. The Vikings were extremely involved in the network of trade and help gave rose to the economic development of Europe. The Vikings had explored and settled in Iceland, Greenland, and even parts of North America. Not all Vikings are bad many were explorers, farmers, and traders as well. They raided villages for treasures and food. In the North, the people living in the Scandinavian Peninsula had pillaged towns and villages around the North and Baltic Sea. New innovations were created such as the plow and three-field planting. The empire had adopted Roman culture, helped gave power to the Latin Catholic Church, helped built monasteries to preserve literature, increase trade in Europe, and stopped the decay of growth of Western Europe under the rule of the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne. They eventually defeated neighboring Germanic tribes, stopped an Islamic advance at Tours, and covered much of Western Europe forming the Carolingian Empire. England (a British country) would build castles in Wales (a British country was conquered by England by King Edward I/Longshanks) as palaces and fortresses for the King.īack to the West, the Franks, now converted Catholic Christians, had sought to conquer the remains of West Europe. Castles would also be housing for the nobility as well. Many European kingdoms would build castles to help fortify cities and strategic positions. The first castles were built by the Carolingian Empire.

Like the Byzantine Empire they flourished and grew technological and advanced in science and architecture. An Islamic caliphate in the Middle East was established by Muslims and conquered lost Roman lands such as Egypt, Iberia, and the Holy Land (Which would contribute to the Crusades).

They had defeated the Ostrogoths and the Vandals and settled in these lands. In the east, the Eastern Roman Empire also known as the Byzantine Empire had still flourished and would reconquer the lost lands on the Western Roman Empire under Emperor Justinian. The Visigoths settled in Eastern Iberia, the Ostrogoths settled in Italy, and the Vandals settled in North Africa. This age is also known for immigration since the Goths had immigrated settled all around the former Western Roman Empire.

This became the Early Middle Age or the 'Dark Ages', since there were a lot of disadvantages for people living in the West. Population declined dramatically, literature grew scarce, cities decayed, lack of cultural output, and trade suffered. To begin with, the Western Roman Empire was in decline and the Late Antiquity of the Classical Age ended. Their empire stood in North Africa and parts of Italy but were attacked and defeated by the Eastern Roman Empire. They then grew infamous for sacking Rome in 455 AD. They were then attacked by the Visigoths so they fled to North Africa. After being mistreated by the Western Roman Empire, they pushed into the Empire and settled in Iberia. They were first heard at Poland and was probably immigrated to seek protection from the Huns under Attila the Hun.

Dominations base layouts medieval age