The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c49.325

c49.325

III. The third period of this history may be considered as the age of the revival of the arts and sciences. The fall of the Western Empire was followed by the establishment of the kingdoms of the barbarians, and the gradual introduction of the feudal system. The history of this period is the history of the transition from the ancient to the modern world. The revival of the arts and sciences, which had been long neglected, was the result of the industry and ingenuity of the people of the middle ages. The invention of printing, the discovery of the new world, and the reformation of the church, were the great events which distinguished this period, and which laid the foundation of the modern European system.