Identify and explain two examples in the period 600 C. E. to 1450 C. E. that support the author’s argument concerning the role of political, social, or economic incentives in the spread of religious or cultural traditions

Upon the fall of rome, europe ceased being influenced by the cultures of the mediterranean coast and was more influenced by germanic tribal confederations that had already taken over vast swathes of roman territory, although the influence of rome on the former empire was very strong in legal