zhōng shì jì zǎo qī kuà dù dà yuē wéi cóng gōng yuán 500
nián zhì 1000
nián de wǔ bǎi nián zhī jiān。
zài cǐ qī jiān，
ōu zhōu de dà duō shù dì qū jī dū jiào huà，
jǐn suí luó mǎ lún xiàn hé 9
shì jì fǎ lán kè dì guó jiàn lì hòu de '
ōu zhōu dà lù kǎ luò lín wén yì fù xīng qí hòu de jiù shì “ hēi '
àn shí dài ”。
yǔ jué qǐ de mù sī lín shì jiè fā dá de mào yì chē duì，
huò zhě dāng shí shì jiè shàng rén kǒu zuì duō de zhōng guó sòng cháo xiāng bǐ，
ōu zhōu réng rán mán huāng luò hòu。
gōng yuán 1000
nián jūn shì tǎn dīng bǎo yǐ yòu 30
wàn rén kǒu，
ér luó mǎ dāng shí jǐn shèng 35000
rén kǒu，
bā lí jǐn yòu 2
wàn rén kǒu。
yī sī lán shì jiè què yōng yòu yī dǎ cóng xī bān yá kē '
ěr duō wǎ dào zhōng yà de dà xíng chéng shì，
qián zhě shì dāng shí shì jiè zuì dà chéng shì，
yōng yòu 45
wàn rén kǒu。
The Early Middle Ages span roughly five centuries from 500 to 1000. During this period, most of Europe was Christianized, and the "Dark Ages" following the fall of Rome took place. The establishment of the Frankish Empire by the 9th century gave rise to the Carolingian Renaissance on the continent. Europe still remained a backwater compared to the rising Muslim world, with its vast network of caravan trade, or India with its Golden Period under the Gupta Empire and the Pratiharas or China, at this time the world's most populous empire under the Song Dynasty. By AD 1000, Constantinople had a population of about 300,000, but Rome had a mere 35,000 and Paris 20,000. Islam had over a dozen major cities stretching from Córdoba, Spain, at this time the world's largest city with 450,000 inhabitants, to central Asia.