Rome

Angles, Saxons and Jutes

German tribes from Denmark region who moved in and raided the Celtic countryside

Celtic

people in England (Britons) were nearly destroyed by these invaders

Burgundians

were another Germanic tribe that moved into central Europe and created a kingdom that covered most of present-day southeastern France.

Alaric

**A Visigoth leader; Led a raid into the Italian peninsula and sacked Rome in 410 AD **Rome then gave the VISIGOTHS territory in southern Gaul and the northern portion of the Iberian peninsula

Lombards

**Another Germanic tribe that had migrated southward from the islands in the Baltic Sea to northern present-day Germany.

Odovacar

**Germanic commander **killed Orestes one year later and deposed Romulus Augustus

Orestes

**Germanic commander in the Roman Army **Led a coup in 475 AD and had his son Romulus Augustus placed on the throne

Huns

**Nomadic central Asian tribe of horsemen **Moved westward threatening Germanic tribes which caused the Germanic tribes to move about the Roman Empire.

What did the Eastern Roman Empire become?

**The empire developed into the Byzantine Empire with its capital at Constantinople **Emperor Justinian made attempts militarily to regain the Italian peninsula and rebuild the Old Roman Empire, but these attempts ultimately failed.

Migration Route of the Vandals

**When the Huns arrived, the Vandals had moved from central Europe westward into the Roman Empire in 406 and settled in Gaul **When the Visigoths moved into Southern Gaul, the Vandals were again pushed out **They went to the Iberian peninsula and then to northern Africa

Franks

**were a confederation of Germanic tribes who had lived for a time in northern Europe along the lower Rhine River, near the North Sea **They moved in and settled in the region of northern Gaul

Vandals

**were originally from northern Europe but migrated to central Europe around 100BC

Visigoths (western Goths)

Asked Roman empire for permission to cross the Danube River into Roman Lands.

Attila the Hun

Leader of the Huns who ravaged Europe and was nicknamed "the scourge of God"

Did the Eastern Roman Empire Fall?

No

Vikings were Germanic people sometimes called what?

Normans, Norsemen, or Northmen from the Scandinavian peninsula **they were later invaders than the other Germanic tribes.

Ostrogoths (eastern Goths)

They were under the influence of the Huns by 372 AD

Barbarians

term used to refer to any of the Germanic tribes that moved around Europe during the decline of Rome; Romans believed that the barbarians were inferior