A FORGOTTEN CULTURE

The Middle Ages was a time of knights and castles. However, it was not a glorious time for Europe. The Western Roman Empire was crumbling during the 1400's. Tribes of tenacious warriors savagely seized parts of Europe. Barbarians hated art and learning, so it is called the Dark Ages. Castles did not appear until the the 900's. The peasants humbly farmed the noblemen's land from sunup to sundown. The Roman culture was almost forgotten.