Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.