A distinct medieval agricultural practice emerged only very slowly in trans-alpine Europe in the centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

直到罗马帝国瓦解阶段，阿尔卑斯山地带才缓慢而明显地出现中世纪农业技术。

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Unfortunately, after the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century A. D. , the barbarians who overran countries like England were not particularly interested in personal hygiene.

不幸的是，罗马帝国在西元第五世纪瓦解之后，在英国等国家横行的野蛮民族对于个人卫生并不特别感到兴趣。

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The so-called Dark Ages, which date roughly from the collapse of the Roman Empire in 422 A.D. to early medieval times, saw a massive contraction of interregional trade and investment.

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Thanks to the preservation of these works by Arab scholars when they had been lost in the West after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Medieval scholars did not just study these texts and the works of the Arabs who added to them, but used them to make discoveries in their own right.

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The fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death, the collapse of trade and migration in the interwar years of the 20th century: all these either slowed the process of globalisation or stopped it in its tracks, albeit only temporarily.

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