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Architecture in the early Christian era

As the Roman Empire distintegrated amid war and rebellion, living standards in western Europe declined precipitously, and so did the population ? to a third of what it had been. Poverty and lawlessness were universal. Marauding pirates converged on the West from Africa, Scandinavia and the Russian Steppes, pillaging deep into the European heartland. The [...]