Running Head: HISTORY OF WESTERN SOCIETY

History of Western Society

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William:

William the conqueror assumption of the throne in England led to changes in social institutions, population, manners, language and laws (Goodrich, 2005). The impact of William the conqueror remains to present. The impact does not only occur in Great Britain, but it occurs in the civilized world, especially English descent races. One of the remarkable calamities is the Norman Conquest in which oppression of the people took place and the liberty of the Saxon overthrown. William gave ownership of the landed property to Norman patriots. Consequently, the nation received a treatment in the form of a troop of slaves.

William ordered that schools should ensure that students learn Latin and French languages only, and abolished the Saxon language. Consequently, French became the legal language in England. William’s reign led to compilation of book that contained owners and names of land quantities in England. The book has the reference title of Doomsday Book. In addition, William instituted a curfew for fires after the sunset. In this, all fires would be put off before sunset at the instant of the bell ring. William the conqueror expelled inhabitants of the forest near Winechester and created his own hunting-park (New Forest). William’s reign so to it that, destruction of villages and towns, which included twenty-two churches took place. Moreover, the current laws of England during the reign of William the conqueror.

Feudalism was at its high peak in England during the era of William the conqueror. In this, England division occurred in the form of great tracts of territory, or baronies. These baronies were conferred upon the established Normal chiefs; the baronies had to remit payments to the chiefs and operated under stated services. The barons’ would parcel out land with commonly formulated obligations. Despite the fact that most of Saxon nobles would retain titles of land, their powers were limited in that Saxon nobles could not form part of the nobility first rank.

William throne led to an end of the reigning dynasty in England. In comparison to his Vikings ancestors, William used brutal force, dictatorship, and jealousy to earn the throne of England. He ended the reigning dynasty in England through a revolution characterized of a myriad of changes.

Rome:

Rome fell at the instant of invasion by the Germanic invaders (Ward-Perkins, 2005). The Germanic invaders had one characteristic of raping the roman nuns on their way to Carthage. However, their invasion in Rome occurred through the use of threat and force. The Germanic invaders seized and extorted Roman subjects by the use of the threat of force. Germanic invaders settled in the new acquired territories without establishing any consensus with the natives on how to share resources.

The Roman government engaged into a treaty signing with Visigoths, which resulted in Visigoths extorting and conquering a large area, and expansion of power in most of the areas in Rome. This invasion resulted into the emergence of a vigorous armed resistance organized by the aristocracy and the city’s bishop. The invasion had a consequence of declining food source; consequently, the natives were reduced to a level of eating grass. Moreover, famine emerged in the region, and most of the natives lost their lives because of the reduction of the source of food.

The eastern Empire in Europe had a strong military power, and it had a long succession of administrators and emperors. Therefore, the empire had the potential to survive Seljouks and Saracens, which would have otherwise overrun Europe (Payne, 1847).

Bibliography

Goodrich, S. (2005). A History Of All Nations, From The Earliest Periods To The Present

Time; Or, Universal History: In Which The History Of Every Nation, Ancient And Modern, Is Separately Given: Illustrated By 70 Stylographic Maps And 700 Engravings, Volume 1. Harvard University. Miller, Orton, & Mulligan.

Payne, C. (1847). The Eastern Empire, Crown Colonies. The First Series. Tavistock Street,

Covent Garden.

Ward-Perkins, B. (2005). The fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. United States: Oxford

University Press Inc.