A Short History of the World Chapter 39 - The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West

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In which the once-mighty Roman Empire, beleaguered by restless barbarian tribes and internal strife, gradually divides into eastern and western halves amid shifting imperial seats and crumbling frontiers. The narrative gently survey the troubled transformations of cities and countryside alike, poised between fading Roman order and the encroachment of new peoples such as the Vandals and the formidable Huns.

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