Posted on 10/14/2005 4:44:24 PM PDT by blam
GGG Ping.
Sounds like he opened up a whole new can of beans.
For newbies, please, what is GGG?
Oldest baked beans on record?
Gods, 'Glyphs and graphs
I get this feeling that Roman Brittain was a lot more like Appalachia than Beverly Hills eh!
Graves, not graphs :-).
What's the Isle of Wight like today? A Beatles song comes to mind, but nothing factual ...
That is interesting, as is the entire subject of international trade in the declining years of the Roman Empire.
Play that beautiful bean footage! (Sorry about that.)
D'oh. I don't know where that came from. (bangs head against wall)
It could be a homonym, depending on your local pronunciation :-).
1800s? The Roman Empire, and its successors in the Eastern Mediterranean, didn't decline in the 3rd Century.
Wasn't Rome sacked by Goths and Vandals, and then taken over completely by the Goths (Theodoric Amalung, and those guys) in the 5th century (give or take on the dates, my books are in the other room)?
I understand the greater continuity of Byzantium, but did that extend to regular trade as far as Britain?
Self ping
I just love articles like this!
Technically that disrupted the continuity of government in the Western Empire, but it was still the same old place.
The West doesn't end until about 538 AD (there's a precise date for this) according to dendrochronology which shows a Fimbulwinter settling in for something like 3 to 5 years.
The Eastern Empire had unbroken continuity up until the city of Byzantium was sacked by the Crusaders, but then reasserted itself and lasted until the early 1400s when it was taken over by the Turks WHO RAN IT EXACTLY THE SAME WAY.
In fact, a good case can be made that the Eastern Empire didn't really end until the peace settlement of WWI that dismantled the Ottoman Empire and re-established the Arab states (which had been out of business for a thousand years).
The Roman Empire was a very large place ~ kind of like the US, and destruction in one quarter did not mean destruction in the others ~ no more than Katrina's destruction of New Orleans has any significance to the existence of Manhattan!
Interesting. Thanks for the big picture.
However, if agriculture and trade and so forth continued uninterrupted through all that time, what caused the tremendous decline in population and economic activity in Europe in the period from the 6th century to the 12th, roughly? What happened to Roman Britain, Roman Gaul, Roman North Africa, Roman Dalmatia, etc., if there was all this continuity?
Interesting!
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