Title: Barbarians
1Barbarians
2Terms--Barbarians
- Comitatus
- Visigoths
- Alaric
- Ostrogoths
- Huns
- Attila
- Vandals
- Franks
- Clovis
- Romulus Augustulus (deposed 476)
3A Military Culture
4A Military Culture
5Age of the Megoliths (c. 2200 B.C. 1500 B.C.)
6Stonehenge
71500 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
8Celtic Europe (c. 400 BC)
9Barbarians
10Simple Village Life
11Comitatus
- 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
12Chronology 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
13The Invasions Begin
14The Goths
- 1st Germanic peoples to become Christian
- Divide
- Visigoths (Western Goths)
- Ostrogoths (Eastern Goths)
15The Visigoths
16The Visigoths Crossing the Danube to Enter Roman
Territory
17The Battle of AdrianopleThe Beginning of the
End (378)
18Alaric (r. 395 410)
19Alaric Sacks Rome (August 24, 410)
20The Visigoth Kingdom
21The Ostrogoths
22An Ostrogothic King
23Kingdom of the Ostrogoths
24The Huns
25The Hunnic Invasions
26Attila the HunThe Scourge of God (406 453)
27Attila and Pope Leo I (452)
28The Vandals
29Gaiseric (r. 428 477)
30The Sack of Rome (455)
31The Kingdom of the Vandals
32476Final Emperor of Rome in the WestRomulus
Augustulus
33The Franks in 451
34The Franks in 600
35The Francesca
36ClovisFirst King of France (r. 481 511)
37Romulus Augustulus Is Deposed by Odoacer (476)
38Odoacer, a Mercenary, Takes Command of RomeTakes
the Title of Rex (476)
39The Roman Empire (476)