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One of the things about the story that should be more careful is that it is constantly reinterpreted according to the dominant ideas in the present. So it never hurts to be rather skeptical. The case of the barbarians is very typical. For example, the nineteenth century is the century of nationalism, and one of the things it does have any national movement is the need to legitimize itself through history how? looking for a "core country" make only a people and trying to prove that the essence remains unchanged through the centuries, and the older the better. Europe has always been crappy to identify with the Roman Empire: it leaves out the entire northern Europe and a common ancestor was uncomfortable for the nations of the nineteenth whose favorite pastime was to compete with each other. So they found in the various Germanic peoples (Goths, Franks ...) to their perfect candidate.
In the case of France and Germany, no coincidence that historians long each side would get involved in silly (and useless) debates over whether Charlemagne was more French than German or vice versa. Today, we have the European Union and Charlemagne has become seen as the primary driver of a European project. And free mind, I think Charlemagne would have laughed a lot with each other.

The truth is that the Germanic peoples had more in common than differentiating, same culture, same religion, same customs, same everything. But fragmented into tribes, over the years and by necessity, these tribes were gathering in large groups or confederations over that eventually created a group identity.

Let's see a little of these people:

The first is the scene, south of the Siberian taiga birch extends the area of \u200b\u200bthe steppes, to Manchuria. Has been traveled by people of Indo-European, Turkish and Mongolian in search of pasture for their animals, beating the rhythm of life of cattle to men. In summer there is a flight to the highlands in search of pasture, getting off in winter. Their diet is based on dairy products, and art in animal motifs on bronze plaques. The steppe is a great rider that rests on the bow and tie, flight envelope sham and persecution. This is where the people originally living on the steppes: Avars, Huns, Alans and Sarmatians.

The end steppe zone in the Carpathians, where the land is filled with forests and swamps, populated by Indo-European peoples more sedentary (rural nomadic practice), these people belong to two linguistic groups: the Slavs and the Germans .

Slavic : north of the Carpathians, between the Vistula and the Dnieper. Its origin is in the basin of Pripet in Polesie (marshland between Belarus and Ukraine) These barbarians are more livestock (sheep and swine) that farmers are also engaged in fishing and agriculture. Their paganism is an almost identical copy of the Sarmatian, worship the sun whose symbol is the rooster and the horse, and the great goddess in the sacred tree glades, birch.

Germanos : occupy northern Europe and the area of \u200b\u200bthe Vistula to the Rhine, and south to the Danube. There are a cohesive people but divided into groups with often hostile relations. At the end of the fourth century were divided into:

Franks at the mouth of the Rhine

Alemanni in the river Main.

Marcomanni / Bavarians, notebooks, Swabians and Thuringian in the Upper Danube.

Burgundians / Burgundy in East-Central Europe.

Lombard / Lombard in the middle of the Elbe.

Vandals ( asdingos and Siling ), northern Hungary.

Further north, the islands between the mouth of the Rhine and Elbe: Frisians, Jutes the Jutland Current and Anglo and Saxon in the lower Elbe.

Across the Baltic, Scandinavia, the source of all the Germanic migrations, were the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish .

Goths began to migrate in the second century C. from southern Scandinavia, across the Baltic. In the third century are installed on the Black Sea and receive the influence of Indo-European steppes (Slavic and Sarmatian) and Greco-Roman. Later divided into two groups, the Ostrogoths settled in Ukraine founded a kingdom of some entity, while another group, the Visigoths defeated Roman Emperor Valens at Adrianople in 378 and occupied the Balkans. As shown in the following map:

Europe in 378

The basic source for the history of the Goths is the History of Jordanes, which can keep an eye here.

Tacitus in Germania designated as main difference the absence Germanic landscape of cities and towns. Although succeeds in this, if they were villages of considerable size, more than 40 farms and more than 10 people in each, often surrounded by defensive works such as palisades and moats. There were two types of farms: the most common was rectangular tripartite gantry, housing and accommodation with other small units for weaving, warehouses, kitchens ... endowed aristocratic farm of defensive and had a large rectangular room, the hall, where he developed his life surrounded by Mr. gefolge (train warrior).
The individual has no more existence within the community of the family, patriarchal, is the basic cell, consisting of husband, wife and children and dependents, slaves and freedmen. Women participated in all spheres of human life by going into battle to encourage them and heal them, and if necessary, go into combat. Although mund was the authority Father's total on women and children. Germanic women could achieve an important role in the group. Children subjected to mund to 10 or 15 years when warriors before they cut his hair and became part of gefolge .

Most Germanic laws show that Germany is not only a warrior but also a farmer, a symbol of this is the francisca, a type of ax used as both tool and weapon clearing throwing.
agriculture and livestock were balanced to a degree that surprised the Romans, more agricultural. The plow was like the Roman in principle, but tough when land had to create a heavy plow to the grid could deepen. The grain was essential in their diet, mainly barley, followed by oats and rye, and lastly wheat. Private ownership was very involved in that society, although it is true that there were common areas for livestock, which stressed cattle, a small breed that was chiefly milk and meat.

were teachers in metal arms. Germanic steel was of better quality than the Roman, Germanic and steel a loan from the Celtic world, enjoying great popularity blacksmiths.

Europe in 400

Sources images :

History maps

Notebooks Medieval History at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Euratlas.net