At the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Christianity had not spread far beyond the cities and towns along the Mediterranean coast. Priests and monks traveled across the Alps to northern Europe as missionaries, converting people to Christianity. Monks began and ended their days and prayer. Some cared for the sick or worked copying religious manuscripts when they weren’t doing missionary work.

Aly! italy! entirely and universally fascist! the italy of the blackshirt revolution, rise to your feet; let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in east africa. let it be a comfort to those who are about to fight. let it be an encouragement to our friends and a warning to our enemies. it is the cry of italy which goes beyond the mountains and the seas out into the great world. it is the cry of justice and of victory. this excerpt could best be used to support a document-based essay on mussolini’s fall from power. mussolini’s role as a charismatic dictator. italy’s high unemployment rates. italy’s alliance with nazi germany.