What Is The Full Force Of The Barbarian Onslaught?

Ever wonder what happened to Rome? Rome was one of the most powerful civilizations of the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, Rome was overcome by weak leaders and Barbaric Invasion. The Roman Empire started in 753 (before common era) to 476 (common era) . Rome was in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Fall of Rome was caused by weak leaders and barbaric invasions.

two major tribes were the Ostrogoth’s and the Lombard’s where power shifted several times, And the

According to Document C People like the Ostrogoths, Vandals, Visigoths, and the Huns were coming in from all different directions. All of these invasions were somewhat around the time of 400 CE. The leaders of Rome had already made this very powerful Empire and conquered almost everyone around them, so they began to get lazy. With a bigger area to rule over, you need more resources. After the Roman Empire had accomplished the number one goal, they laid off a little so therefore, invaders could come in and take over pretty easily. Overall, because Rome was number one, they were backing off and not being as strict so, invaders came and took over.

The Roman Empire was considered the biggest empire. The empire conquered 3 million square miles of land and it managed to do this because of it’s stable government and its military. Rome maintained much of its peace from 27 bc to 180 ad and this era is called Pax Romana which essentially, was the golden age of Rome. However, after Pax Romana, Rome declined from 180 ad to 476 ad. During the declination of Rome empire, the Roman empire was divided into an eastern and a western empire and was controlled by 2 emperors; one in the east and one in the west. Rome did this in order for the emperors to share power and to manage between situations such as war effectively. Since Rome was divided into 2 sections, barbaric groups such as goths, started

By the fifth century, the “powerhouse of the Mediterranean” was struggling to protect itself with its decreased population, apathetic military, and leaders with debauched morals. Outside of the Roman Empire, Germanic tribes took notice of the internal chaos and began invading the empire’s borders. Many of the tribes were cruel and combative, such as the Huns. The Huns “exceed any definition of savagery” and were “fired with an overwhelming desire for seizing the property of others, these swift-moving and ungovernable people make their destructive way amid the pillage and slaughter of those who live around them.” (Document D, excerpts about an Asian tribe called the Huns from Roman History by Ammianus Marcellinus). Roman soldiers would have had a challenge ahead of them if they had to deal with the Huns at the height of the Roman military, let alone having to fight them when their numbers were depleted and motivation running low. The Huns played a large part in minimizing what little hope Rome had of reviving itself into the Mediterranean-dominating empire it once was. Many other tribes followed the Huns example and invaded Rome at its borders. Document C, a map created from various sources,

Nomads were pastoralists found throughout Afro-Eurasia. Due to their strong military capabilities, they were able to conquer various regions from the classical and post-classical periods (600 C.E. to 1450 C.E.), including examples of Huns and Germanic invaders (those that brought down Rome in 476). The Mongols were a key nomadic group from 1200 to 1400. While they committed atrocities in conquest and spread their political control through much of Eurasia, the resulting Mongol state provided for diversity of cultures and advancements in trade and technology.

Much of the Roman frontier followed the natural boundaries of the Rhine and Danube rivers across Europe. On the other side of these rivers were territories the Romans never brought under their control and tribal peoples such as the Goths, Franks, Vandals, and Huns. By the middle of the fourth century CE, many Roman governors had allowed these so-called “barbarians” to settle on the Roman side of the rivers, and Roman generals had even recruited many of the men as soldiers in their armies. However, the barbarians never assimilated fully into Roman culture. By the end of the century they started to wage a series of ferocious campaigns

According to the Romans nomads were considered to be barbarians, however over time Romans began to develop nomadic customs which were no longer considered barbaric but civilized. To the Romans a ‘barbarian’ was anyone who was an outsider of their land, and in that case nomads were considered to be barbaric. Nomads are known as a small group of people that don’t have a permanent settlement, and travel and migrate from place to place. Nomadic people also had a different type of lifestyle from the Romans, for example the nomads hunted and gathered their food, and which was considered cave man like. Before the fall of Rome the Romans were considered to be civilized people with a respectable religion and

Hunic tribes began their chapter in history with unorganized and separate attacks during the late 300s in Central Asia and different parts of Europe such

From the east, the Sassanid Persians made in-roads into Roman territory and began attacking Rome’s borders from their lands farther into Asia (Spielvogel 186). The Sassanids were Mesopotamian Persians, and were always an enemy and threat to Rome since their first appearance as a prominent power in the third century C.E. (Sassanid). Beginning around 230, the Goths, a Germanic tribe, also began raiding the northern border provinces of Rome (Nardo-2004 24). It was this group that would turn out to be one of Rome’s greatest problems from the barbarian tribes.

The Mongols were very harsh and brutal like no one else in their era but I believe that they are not barbarians. The Mongols had a strong dominating military that was almost always successful, they contributed to many of the ideas that are still around today, and made a very stern set of laws that kept their community civilized which is why I believe that the Mongols were not barbarians.

The Roman empire suffered many problems throughout its rise and several centuries of subsequent power. To begin with, they dealt with many outside invasions, including the Burgundians, Franks, Alemanni, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Visigoths, and Anglo-Saxon peoples. The invaders considered most barbaric were the Huns, which the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus describes as people who “surpass all other barbarians in the wilderness of life.” He further describes “they are so little advanced

The barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongolians are portrayed throughout history as bloodthirsty savages that only care about killing people and pillaging villages and towns. The barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongols often don’t receive credit for the ways that they positively impacted ancient civilizations. Even though the barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongolians impacted ancient civilizations in positive ways they also did some things that impacted ancient civilizations in negative ways.

Another sizeable contributing factor to the expansion of the Roman Empire was the sacking of Rome by the Gauls in 390 B.C.. “The Romans were completely dumbfounded by the wild and undisciplined charge of the howling Gauls. The Roman’s tightly packed phalanx, a military formation they had adopted from the Greeks of

Jordanes, a Roman bureaucrat, wrote a history of the gothic people in the 6th century. He claimed that they most likely came from a place called Scandza, which has been regarded as a modern Scandinavian civilization. In the third century, the goths made more attacks on Rome, overthrowing the city of Histria, the Aegean Sea, and temple that was devoted to the Goddess Diana. Eventually, the Visigothic Kingdom took part in developing and preserving elements of the Roman culture.