Famines and new diseases decimated life. Trade routes, roads, cities shrink and collapse in post-Roman western Europe. Western Europe is largely Germanic based, save in the south. St. Gregory I, Pope. Gildas' Ruin of Britain .
Daily life settles down as the Germanic kingdoms more thoroughly establish themselves.
Antioch destroyed by earthquake. Good law and order, taxations systems, currency etc. Reconversion of western Europe to Christianity. This is a long and very painstaking process. Anglo-Saxon monasteries in the north of Britain produce some of the finest scholars, literature and art in western Europe.