| User | Inc. | | Topic | Fall of Rome (city) | | Message | Hi. I’m pretty new here, and I’m stuck with a story. It’s based in Germany, in ancient roman times around the period of where the barbarians were pushing the Roman army back, right into Italy itself. I can’t seem to find any decent websites or books about the capture of rome, when eventually, the great city of Rome got captured.
So, if you have any books or websites, please post them here.
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| User | hammyj | 2006-06-23 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | and this
http://www.wizardrealm.com/barbarians/history3.html |
| User | hammyj | 2006-06-23 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I have picked up little pieces from here and there:
Hope this helps
It is a commonplace that slavery made up the basis of life in the classical world, but it is sometimes assumed that slavery came to an end with the fall of Rome. In fact, the Germanic tribes who conquered Rome captured, kept, and traded slaves as energetically as the Romans did—as indeed did the Arab conquerors of the Mediterranean. The purpose of war from the fifth to the tenth centuries was as much to capture bodies as it was to capture land, and the tribes of central Germany enjoyed particular success raiding their Slavic neighbors. If you purchased a bondservant in Europe in the centuries leading up to the year 1000, the chances were that he or she was a “Slav”—hence the word “slave.”
This also might help:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_pennellhistoryofrome42.htm
John |
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