What impact did the collapse of the roman empire have on europes' trade and security?

Question

what were typical characteristics of european medieval gavernments?

what did european governments have to deal with once the romans were gone?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Trade came almost to a complete halt.

Security non-existent.

The fall of the Roman Empire knocked us straight into the Dark Ages.

The Dark Ages refers to the Early Middle Ages in the West, the period extending from the overthrow of the last Western Roman Emperor in 476 to approximately AD 1000.

The Romans had provided safe conditions for trade and manufacture, and a unified cultural and educational milieu of far-ranging connections. As this was lost, it was replaced by the rule of local potentates, sometimes members of the established Romanized ruling elite, sometimes new lords of alien culture.

Everywhere, the gradual break-down of economic and social linkages and infrastructure resulted in increasingly localized outlooks. This breakdown was often fast and dramatic as it became unsafe to travel or carry goods over any distance; there was a consequent collapse in trade and manufacture for export. Major industries that depended on trade, such as large-scale pottery manufacture, vanished almost overnight in places like Britain.

Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, and the loss of the established cursus honorum led to the collapse of the schools and to a rise of illiteracy even among the leadership.

For the formerly Roman area, there was another 20 percent decline in population between 400 and 600, or a one third decline for 150-600.

In the eighth century, the volume of trade reached its lowest level since the Bronze Age.

There was also reforestation and a retreat of agriculture that centered around 500.

The Romans had practised two-field agriculture, with a crop grown in one field and the other left fallow and ploughed under to eliminate weeds. With the gradual breakup of the institutions of the empire, owners were unable to stop their slaves from running away and the plantation system broke down. Systematic agriculture largely disappeared and yields declined to subsistence level.

It really was the Dark Ages after the Fall of Rome.