HIST 110A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Primogeniture, Weregild, Migration Period
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Why did the barbarians invade europe, a volkerwanderung. Marks the beginning of the dark ages, where when the roman. Empire fell, people wandered through towns in search for food. Due to a volcanic eruption, of the population had died learning destruction in its wake: the successor of rome, germanic tribes. Two germanic tribes that invaded europe; not to confused by the german today. Referred to as germanic due to their language. Were kept up in northern europe where their crops would not grow. Blurred boundaries and assimilation (c. 2. b. 1) the disappearing border slowly made it easier for the tribes to invade (c. 2. b. 1. a) many of the tribe members were able to become citizens of rome (c. 2. b. 1. a. i) Some of these germanic people rose to high places in military and government (c. 2. b. 2) as roman empire diminished, the tribes victories. Christian missionary (c. 5. a. 1) began to convert the germans into christianity. Thought that rome would be sacked a third time by this.
