Early Middle Ages. From the fall of Rome to the Holy Roman Empire. MELEM D.

This issue tells about the events that took place from the end of the V to the beginning of the XI century. The period of the early Middle Ages began with the fall of the Roman Empire and ended with the Norman conquest of England in 1066. At the end of the 4th century, Germanic tribes entered the forefront of history, thereby marking the beginning of the slow sunset of Rome. Having divided his possessions among themselves, the Germans founded their own kingdoms. But in the east there was another powerful center - Constantinople, the heart of Byzantium, the Eastern Roman Empire. In the same historical period, the Prophet Muhammad on the Arabian Peninsula gave the beginning of a new religion - Islam.