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| Thus the history of the German tribes, as it was represented during late antiquity and the early middle ages, is a history of a comparatively uncivilized people that constantly strove to achieve high culture, but that never achieved it. When this high culture split up into east and west in 395 AD, and the western portion fell less than a century later, these German barbarians were in a position to set itself up on the ruins of the old culture. Germanic kings assumed the role of the Roman political system and even became guarantors for the humbled remainder. They and their followers took up much of the Roman legacy and became Christian. In the year 800, one of those German kings, the Frankish king Charles, decided to reconstitute the Roman Empire under the leadership of his people and to even become emperor. How could Caesar have ever imagined that a barbarian would stand at the pinnacle of a new Rome! |
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