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Title: The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 A. D Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- [from old catalog] Subjects: History, Ancient Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] Allyn and Bacon


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Text Appearing Before Image: §798] SOCIETY ABOUT 800 A.D. 631 some degree on friendly terms with the Mohammedan power borderingthe other. The only one of the four states that was to stand finally fofprogress was the Western Empire^ with its fringes in the Teutonic statesof Scandinavia and England. SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT 798. Poverty and Misery. — We must not think that the gloryand prosperity of the old Empire had been restored. To aa

Text Appearing After Image: THBONK of CHARLKM«.aNB AT AACHEN. 632 THE EMPIRE OF CHARLEMAGNE [§799 complisli that was to be the work of centuries more. In 800,the West was ignorant and poor. There was much barbarismin the most civilized society. Roads had fallen into neglect,and there was little communication between one district andanother. Money was little heard of. Trade hardly existed.Almost the only industry was a primitive kind of agricul-ture. Perhaps this condition is best realized by looking at therevenues of Charlemagne himself. Great and powerful as hewas, he was always pinched for money. There were no taxes,as we understand the word, — partly because there was nomoney to pay them with, and little produce. Payment wasmade by service in person. The common freemen paid byserving in the ranks in war; the nobles paid by serving there,with their followers, and also by serving, without salary, as of-ficers in the administration. The treasury received some fines,and it was enriched somewhat by the gifts w


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