Medieval Military Technology
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In Northern Europe at the end of the eighth century, the Vikings began to attack the lands across the sea from their Scandinavian homelands. These attacks were completely unanticipated by a European populace that did not believe it possible for anyone at the time to make ships capable of raiding their coasts.
Ancient oarsmen/sailors were not slaves or prisoners. This modern concept is drawn from late medieval and early modern history, but it is inaccurate for much of the ancient world. It would be later, in the Roman Empire, that free oarsmen were replaced by slaves and prisoners.
In England there is no written record of any new defensive construction taking place after the fall of the Roman Empire until the reign of Alfred the Great in the ninth century. Roman fortifications, mostly town walls, had been built more than 600 years previously, and these appear to have been poorly maintained.
The father had made a kingdom; the son would make the kingdom an empire. In almost every one of his 42 years of rule, Charlemagne summoned his army for conquest outside of the kingdom’s borders.
After two defeats at the hands of the Roman general Stilicho, Alaric had not even reached the outskirts of the city before 408. However, that year the Roman political leadership turned against Stilicho and he was killed, leaving his armies in disarray and the road to Rome open for Alaric and the Visigoths.