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- Bubonic plague, soil erosion, climatic change earthquakes decisive in forming the dark ages in the East 0 not even 6th century sequence of crop failures, plagues, wars etc terminated prosperity of Oriens
- 7th and 8th century Mediterranean by no means uniform – power fro North Sea channel area and from Syria.
- 8th century upward climb – simultaneous revival of east and west, north and south in fortunes of Christendom – widespread rise in population and production – basis for Charlemagne’s power – silver production of Khorasan weak.
- Collapse urban life, politics, religion, economics, collapse seems less marked - slower, many regions transformation without need for reconstruction – Islamic seems less catastrophic – renewal as religious and mercantile transmitters. M Passed the stuff of civilisation, tangible and intangible across new boundaries of politics and culture – across ancient limits between Romania and barbaricum, between town and country.
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