LAWS 2601 Midterm: acient science
22 Nov 2017
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Originally there was only one roman empire but it eventually split into east and west. Byzantine empire) lasted 1000 years longer than the. Population of the city of rome at one point in the middle ages was only about 25,000. So they extrapolate back to antiquity and they assume rome was even smaller then. When the roman empire collapsed in the west, western europe fell into chaos. Many people died, of starvation, of disease, and of warfare. The roman empire straddled three continents, in the north it went all the way to the southern part of scotland. It did not include scandinavia or the northern german territories. It did include the southern german territories, which we now call france. In the east the empire extended all the way to. Asia, as far as the eastern shore of the black sea, in the. In the middle east the territory grew and shrank over time but it always included some territory.
