The Mediterranean World After the Fall of Rome (Two Volumes)

In ancient times, the northern and southern sides of the Mediterranean belonged to the same civilization circle, which was the Roman world created by the Romans. The separation did not begin until after the 7th century. The Roman world perished when the Mediterranean ceased to be an inland sea, and when the Mediterranean ceased to be a thoroughfare connecting people and became a boundary sea that separated people. In the future, the Mediterranean Sea became such an ocean. There must be a Saracen Tower built on the top of the cliff to notify people of the incoming Saracen pirates and allow people to flee. There were also ships full of Crusaders heading east sailing on the sea. When 1000 AD passed, the Italian maritime city-states of Pisa, Genoa and Venice were increasingly prospering in their trade with the Eastern Islamic world, and the Mediterranean gradually became a sea for trading ships to sail back and forth. Later, the Mediterranean Sea became the sea of ​​the Renaissance era that held high the banner of the revival of ancient times and the revival of human rights. In 476 AD, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Mediterranean entered an era of divided power. "With a sword in his right hand and a Quran in his left hand", Saracen pirates who were good at plundering and kidnapping were wreaking havoc in the Mediterranean. The order of the Mediterranean was broken, and their barbaric behavior caused the people of the Mediterranean to suffer from plunder. Then the Ottoman Empire used the pirates in North Africa as a stepping stone to enter the Mediterranean and pressed hard on the Christian world. In contrast, Spain led by Carlos, who also served as Holy Roman Emperor in the Christian world, France led by Francis I, and the Republic of Venice, etc. The ideas and interests of different countries and leaders were intertwined, and the great powers fought against each other. In order to fight against the Islamic pirates, the military forces of Christendom gathered together...