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Old 01-20-2008, 20:17 PM   #58 (permalink)
Ironduke
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Originally Posted by bolo121 View Post
so could you tell me what the main schools of thought (among professional historians) are on the decline and fall?
There is a misconception among the layman on what the Romans and "barbarians" were in late antiquity. There was a convergence in a wide variety of areas, perhaps most importantly, in military technology and feudalism. The "barbarians" were not primitive Stone Age people.
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