Empires and Barbarians

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Empires and Barbarians
Author : Peter J. Heather
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Language : English
Release Date : 28 March 2024
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124182515
Pages : 776 pages
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By the year 1000, Mediterranean domination of the European landscape had been destroyed. Europe - from the Atlantic almost to the Urals - was home to an interacting commonwealth of Christian states. This book tells the story of the transformations which changed western Eurasia forever: of the birth of Europe itself.

Empires and Barbarians

By the year 1000, Mediterranean domination of the European landscape had been destroyed. Europe - from the Atlantic almost to the Urals - was home to an interacting commonwealth of Christian states. This book tells the story of the transformations which changed western Eurasia forever: of the birth of Europe itself.

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