ALQUIVIRA: HISTORIA + GEOGRAFÍA & ARTE

FRAGMENTATION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD At the beginning of the Middle Ages, there were three great civilisations occupying the lands of the ancient Roman Empire. Germanic tribes conquered the Western Roman Empire from the 5 th  century. In the west, many Germanic kingdoms were established that eventually adopted Roman traditions and the Christian religion. Cities declined after the fall of the Roman Empire, and people moved to the countryside to work the land. Many peasants became serfs by entrusting themselves to a lord in return for protection.  This was the beginning of feudal Europe. Eastern Empire, Byzantium , survived, and after the fall of Rome, the imperial insignia were sent to Constantinople. The Eastern Roman Empire became Hellenised. It was called Byzantium and established its capital in Constantinople. Finally, a new religion called Islam appeared in Arabia in the 7 th  century and spread throughout the south of the Mediterranean, the Iberian Peninsula and the Middle East.