Ostrogoths

Attila the Hun wasn't actually a very bad guy. And his real name was actually Attila, King of the Huns. He grew up with murderous barbarians his whole life, and still turned out to be an OK guy. It is known that He had a lot of wives, but no one really knows how many. When he was twelve years old, he was sent as a hostage to Rome as a peace offering. The book we read said he prowled around on all four limbs on a chain, like an animal when he got to Rome, even until he was eventually somehow released

I INTRODUCTION A. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The impact of the dark ages had a presumed profound negative impact on Western Europe. The primary cause for this was that the taxation system had fallen apart. It was a time when the emergence of new civilizations lead to conflict. “Invasions” of entire peoples and military expeditions were the largest contributors of these conflicts. Since there were no taxes it left no one to

In the book The Fall of the Roman Empire the author Peter Heather talks about the ways the Roman empire conquered the many territories surrounding them and how strong of an empire the Roman empire was. He also talks about the build up all the events that causes the empire to fall. Peter also talks about the people that helped or was involved with the build up or the collapse of the Roman empire. Peter Heather mainly wrote this book to speak of how the European barbarians that got turned into enemies

Imagine that you are living in Constantinople at the time of Attila the Hun. All you hear about is the Hunnic Army racing through the Roman Empire, razing towns and villages, slaughtering men, women and children alike. You are terrified of them, and you are worried of what would happen if Constantinople were taken. You would feel like many Europeans during World War 2 with the ever-looming threat of Nazis. There are many parallels between Hitler and Attila, and Attila’s story could show how history

In the charts of this week, I would to know more about the tribe in chart 32. The first tribe is the Goths; they were the first Germanic people originated in southern Scandinavia to become Christians in the 6th century Gothic historian Jordanes. history-world.org/goths.htm Then, after the 3rd century, they migrated around the Black Sea. Then, the western tribe of the Goths was called Visigoths and they developed themselves during the 3rd Century CE by the West of the Black Sea. www.ancient.eu/visigoth/

In “The Fall of the Roman Empire”, the author Peter Heather talks about the ways the Roman empire conquered the many territories surrounding them and how strong of an empire the Roman empire was. He also talks about the build up of the events that caused the empire to fall. Peter also talks about the people that helped or was involved in the build up or the collapse of the Roman empire. Peter Heather mainly wrote this book to inform the reader of how the European barbarians got turned into enemies

The Huns were a nomadic tribe originating in the Caspian steppes potentially as early as the first century A.D. It is likely that they stem from the Hsiung-nu. They were incredibly successful conquerors, and the Hunnic bow is an integral part of what made the Huns so successful. The expert craftsmanship and the perfected design allowed the Huns to produce the best bows in the world. The Huns lived in Eastern Europe and because they are nomads they did not have agriculture. They relied on herding

Introduction Attila, also known as Attila the Hun (b.?- d. 453 CE), was arguably the greatest ever Hunnic leader who devastated the Roman Empire, particularly in the West, and was one of the primary contributors to its downfall. There has been extensive debate about where Attila’s people, the Huns, actually came from. Although there is a lack of evidence on the origins of the Huns, the two main theories are that they either: originated from somewhere around Kazakhstan and central Asia; or that they

The Huns are best known to be barbaric, or cruel, group that tore down villages and killed people that got in their way of what they wanted. All people were afraid of the Huns because they were really mean and destroyed everything when they attacked places. Historians are not sure exactly where the Huns came from or what language they spoke, but the Huns did not let anyone or anything get in their way of what they wanted. The exact origin of the Huns is not exactly known, but history shows that

The Ostrogoths The Goths, being well known throughout the country and to other barbarians, came from Scandinavia and around the Baltic. Splitting into two parts, the Visigoths, the Western Goths, and the Ostrogoths, the Eastern Goths, they became two of the most known Germanic Tribes to this day due to their large impact on the Roman Empire. The Ostrogoths were led by Theodoric towards Italy after removing themselves from Hun control. Theodoric ruled from 493 until 526, during such time he had conquered