![]() This was not due to any lack of “intelligence.” People in the early Middle Ages were every bit as intelligent as their Roman-era forebears and also just as smart as we are. We have, for example, some correspondence between two monks from the ninth century discussing mathematical problems that, to modern eyes, look totally elementary but which were cutting-edge at the time. Learning was not extinguished completely thanks to the church’s teaching that “pagan” philosophy was valuable for its own sake and to be preserved. Evidence of luxury goods traded over long distances disappears from the record in all but the most elite gravesite finds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Factory-made, mass-produced ceramics that had been exported to the outermost corners of the empire were replaced with rough, homemade pottery. ![]()
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