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Rome provides safety to all of the lands it controls. Famous for building roads, speaking Latin, and giving us our calendar system, and inventing concrete and aqueducts.
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It happened because Rome was destroyed by a germanic tribe. People did not feel safe to travel from one land to another.
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There was no unity until the Catholic church stepped up, and became a strong political force. If you disagree with them you disagree with God. Hell was used as a fear mechanism.
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Attacks by barbaric tribes like vikings caused people to build walls around their villages for protection. They had everything they needed for society to be within those walls.
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Muslims took the Holy land so trade increased between Europeans and Asians because they felt safe to travel. This starts the Renaissance.
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A cause of the Renaissance was the Bobanic Plague that killed 1/3 of the Europeans. People felt opless and needed to turn to a better system, then the one they had.
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Gutenburg was from Germany and he invented the first Printing Press. This caused books to become more accessible to the common person and therefore aided in spreading education and the Renaissance movement.