Романские времена в истории Великобритании.


                  The Fall of the Roman Empire.
      The Romans remained in Britain for about four centuries & during  that
time Britain was a Roman province governed by Roman  governors  &  protected
by Roman legions.
      In the 3rd-4th centuries the  power  of  the  roman  Empire  gradually
weakened. The unproductive labour of the slaves led to the economic  decline
of the empire. Neither new methods of land  cultivation  nor  new  technical
inventions were introduced. Slavery became obstacle to  technical  progress.
Poor cultivation exhausted the fields, the harvests became poorer from  year
to year.
      The uninterrupted struggle of the exploited against  the  slave-owners
greatly weakened the  Roman  Empire  too.  The  enormous  number  of  slaves
presented of great danger of the Roman Empire. The end of  the  4th  century
found the Germanic tribes invading the Western Roman  Empire  &  the  slaves
who hated the Roman state were joining them by the thousand.
      Early by the 5th century (407) the Roman legions  were  recalled  from
Britain to defend the  central  provinces  of  the  Roman  Empire  from  the
attacks of the barbarian tribes. They didn’t return to Britain, & the  Celts
were left alone in the land.
      During the 5th century  the  Germanic  tribes  overran  the  empire  &
settled in all parts of it. The fall of the Western Roman Empire  meant  the
end of the slave-owning system in Western Europe.

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