German Tribes

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German Tribes
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Fall of Roman Empire
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Huns

• nomadic Mongols
• empire of German tribes
• 300s-400s
• Attila
• lower Danube

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Germanic Societies

• folk
• unwritten customary law
• kings or chieftains
• social not political
• strongest, toughest family
• comitatus (war band)

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Visigoths

• allowed to settle within Roman Empire
• Arians
• Alaric sacks Rome in 410 AD
• Kingdom in Spain

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Other Peoples

• Vandals North Africa
• Burgundians b/n France and Italy
• Ostrogoths Theodoric the Great
• Lombards Italy
• Anglo-Saxons England
• Vikings Scandinavia
• Muslims Middle East