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Gaul - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The only serious attempt to rebel politically against Rome was the uprising of Postumus (AD 257), but Gallo-Roman civilization was too strong to fall before anything but the Germans of the 5th and 6th cent. |
 | | A landed aristocracy grew up, employing the laborers, who made up the principal part of the population. |
 | | The influence of Christianity and the ravages of Germanic invaders forwarded the local organization around the cities. |
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