jan 1, 476 - Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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- life and property became insecure in the Lowland are of Britain.
- the civil and military connections with the Mediterranean became every year more shadowy, and then unromanized.
- The Romanized Britons found themselves left to their own devices by an empire that confessed itself unable any longer to help: the Saxons became the chief instrument in the destruction of Roman Britain, begun in the previous century by the Celtic barbarians of North and West.
- Once the Roman military system had collapsed, the Roman roads only served to hasten the pace of conquest and destruction.
- their half-mytical King Arthur led them to battle against the "heather swarming over the Northern Sea"
- No class in the peaceful South and East of the island had been trained to self-defence: the cities were defended by magnificent stone walls. (the feudal system gradually arose out of the welter of barbarian invasions, precisely to remedy this vital defect in the social organism).
- The destruction of the Roman cities and villas was wholesale and almost universal.
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