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Topics include the conversion of europe to christianity, the fall of the roman empire, the rise of islam. The inheritance of loss is a novel by kiran desai that narrates the journey of an illegal immigrant biju and the anglicized sai living in the u. The first edition of the novel was published in november 8th 2011, and was written by christopher paolini. Although the western roman empire fell in the 5th century ad, the eastern roman empire continued until its conquest by the. Illuminating the dark ages 400 the penguin history of europe book 2. Just as astronomers no longer call pluto a planet and paleontologists.
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