Barbarians

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Barbarians
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Terms--Barbarians

• Comitatus
• Visigoths
• Alaric
• Ostrogoths
• Huns
• Attila
• Vandals
• Franks
• Clovis
• Romulus Augustulus (deposed 476)

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A Military Culture
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A Military Culture
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Age of the Megoliths (c. 2200 B.C. 1500 B.C.)
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Stonehenge
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1500 500 BC

• Switch to cremation
• Its the soulnot the body thats important!
• More iron being used
• More contacts with Mediterranean world
• After 500 BCdevelopment linked to trade

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Celtic Europe (c. 400 BC)
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Barbarians
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Simple Village Life
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Comitatus

• Loyalty to the chief
• --Loyalty was personalto an individual (the
  chief) not an institution (Rome)
• Protect the chief at any cost
• Mutually beneficial
• Loyalty to the chiefone reason for the migrations

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Chronology of the 5th century invasions

• 401 Alaric king of the Visigoths penetrates in
  Italy
• 405 The Ostrogoths and other german tribes cross
  the Danube and the Alps heading to Italy but they
  where destroyed by the romans near Florence
• 406 Menaced by the Huns, the Vandals, Suaves,
  Burgundies and Alans cross the Rhine river
• 408 The Visigoths penetrate in Italy, where they
  siege the emperor in Ravenna
• 409 Suaves, Vandals and Alans invade Spain
• 410 The Visigoths with help of some Ostrogoths
  sack Rome
• 411 The Visigoths march through France
• 412 The Visigoths Settle in southern France
• 415 The Visigoths conquer Aquitania
• 422 The Vandals march to southern Spain
• 428 The Vandals march to North Africa to aid its
  governor
• 431 The Vandals conquer North Africa
• 435 The Romans sign a treaty with the Vandals
  accepting them as federated in North Africa
• 436 Aecio organizes the Gaul establishing the
  French in the north, the Alamans in the south and
  the Burgundies in the lands surrounding the Rhode
  river
• 439 The Rmans leave Britain. The Vandals rebel
  and take Carthage
• 451 The Huns invade Gaul but are defeated in
  Campos Catalaunicos
• 452 The Huns regroup and invade Italy but the
  pope convinced them not to sack Rome
• 455 The Vandals attack Sicily and other isles,
  and sack Rome
• 461 The Visigoths establish their hegemony in
  the Gaul

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The Invasions Begin
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The Goths

• 1st Germanic peoples to become Christian
• Divide
• Visigoths (Western Goths)
• Ostrogoths (Eastern Goths)

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The Visigoths
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The Visigoths Crossing the Danube to Enter Roman
Territory
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The Battle of AdrianopleThe Beginning of the
End (378)
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Alaric (r. 395 410)
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Alaric Sacks Rome (August 24, 410)
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The Visigoth Kingdom
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The Ostrogoths
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An Ostrogothic King
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Kingdom of the Ostrogoths
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The Huns
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The Hunnic Invasions
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Attila the HunThe Scourge of God (406 453)
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Attila and Pope Leo I (452)
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The Vandals
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Gaiseric (r. 428 477)
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The Sack of Rome (455)
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The Kingdom of the Vandals
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476Final Emperor of Rome in the WestRomulus
Augustulus
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The Franks in 451
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The Franks in 600
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The Francesca
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ClovisFirst King of France (r. 481 511)
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Romulus Augustulus Is Deposed by Odoacer (476)
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Odoacer, a Mercenary, Takes Command of RomeTakes
the Title of Rex (476)
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The Roman Empire (476)