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27. Actually, trade continued in Europe even after

the roman empire fell. Spices, cloth, knowledge, etc., continued to cross all over. Citrus, chili's, herbs....as with today, what you ate depended on what you could afford.
Some good you tube sites to check out:
Time team (this focuses mostly on U.k. archeology, from prehistory to about 1800s, with plenty of roman and medieval digs as the focus)

Tasting History with Max Miller
It's food. He will make the earliest version of a dish that has historical documentation, explain historical context of that dish, and then eat it. The faces he makes are often funny, especially when he finds a dish actually tastes really good.

There are several others, but those are the main two I can think of off the top of my head.