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Barbarians

Barbarians. Terms--Barbarians. Comitatus Visigoths Alaric Ostrogoths Huns Attila Vandals Franks Clovis Romulus Augustulus (deposed: 476). A Military Culture. A Military Culture. “Age of the Megoliths ” (c. 2200 B.C. – 1500 B.C.). Stonehenge. 1500 – 500 BC.

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Barbarians

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  1. Barbarians

  2. Terms--Barbarians • Comitatus • Visigoths • Alaric • Ostrogoths • Huns • Attila • Vandals • Franks • Clovis • Romulus Augustulus (deposed: 476)

  3. A Military Culture

  4. A Military Culture

  5. “Age of the Megoliths” (c. 2200 B.C. – 1500 B.C.)

  6. Stonehenge

  7. 1500 – 500 BC • Switch to cremation • It’s the soul—not the body that’s important! • More iron being used • More contacts with Mediterranean world • After 500 BC—development linked to trade

  8. Celtic Europe (c. 400 BC)

  9. Barbarians

  10. Simple Village Life

  11. Comitatus • Loyalty to the chief --Loyalty was personal—to an individual (the chief) not an institution (Rome) • Protect the chief at any cost • Mutually beneficial • Loyalty to the chief—one reason for the migrations

  12. 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 • 465: Vandal rule in the Mediterranean they attack Greece, Epirus and Ilyria • 471: Burgundy expansion • 474: The Vandals sign a peace treaty • 476: The germanic troops in Italy rebel and claim Odoacer as king of Italy. End of the western Roman empire

  13. The Invasions Begin

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

  15. The Visigoths

  16. The Visigoths Crossing the Danube to Enter Roman Territory

  17. The Battle of Adrianople—”The Beginning of the End” (378)

  18. Alaric (r. 395 – 410)

  19. Alaric Sacks Rome (August 24, 410)

  20. The Visigoth Kingdom

  21. The Ostrogoths

  22. An Ostrogothic King

  23. Kingdom of the Ostrogoths

  24. The Huns

  25. The Hunnic Invasions

  26. Attila the Hun—”The Scourge of God” (406 – 453)

  27. Attila and Pope Leo I (452)

  28. The Vandals

  29. Gaiseric (r. 428 – 477)

  30. The Sack of Rome (455)

  31. The Kingdom of the Vandals

  32. 476—Final Emperor of Rome in the West—Romulus Augustulus

  33. The Franks in 451

  34. The Franks in 600

  35. The Francesca

  36. Clovis—First King of France (r. 481 – 511)

  37. Romulus Augustulus Is Deposed by Odoacer (476)

  38. Odoacer, a Mercenary, Takes Command of Rome—Takes the Title of “Rex” (476)

  39. The Roman Empire (476)

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