The earlier years of the middle ages began with

The collapse of the Roman empire and it emerged to the age of discovery and renaissance. The three middle ages were modern period medieval period and classical antiquity movement of people, counter-urbanization, and population decline had begun in late antiquity which continued to early middle ages.
The large-scale movement of people of migration period which included  Germanic people they formed new kingdoms with the remains of the western Roman empire

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