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The Age of Invasions (II)

By 420 the Huns had come to establish a kind of state centered on the great plain of the Danube, (I love that word) Puszta, reminding them of where they came from the steppes and from where they were dedicated tribute to Constantinople to ask while were getting settled.

In 425 Attila was king, and some texts of the time I have surrounded by courtiers, so the "nationalization" of the Huns went ahead.

In one of these, the Emperor Marcian (seriously) from the East, refused to pay tribute to Attila, and he, enraged, decides to put all his anger ... about the West. Because from Constantinople Theodosius II had walls that made it impregnable until the advent of gunpowder, and Attila would be the wrath of God, but he was no fool: plundering the Western Empire was much easier. By the way, the East had found a solution to the "Dark Ages": throwing the dead neighbor.

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Attila plundered towns of Gaul until the magister militum Aetius ask an Ostrogoths, Theodoric. Together they defeated Attila in the Campos Cataláunicos in 451, so no one can imagine the battle as "Roman" against "Huns", at this stage of the game, the Roman side fought more or less Romanized barbarians against troops of the Huns, which fought a confederation of many different peoples, including, of course, most Germans.

The world before the battle of the Fields Cataláunicos (or Chalons )

Attila had to retreat, but the following year came in Italy, where only confronted him and the bishop of Rome l Leo the Great to the full force of ... their bribes. Attila turned his satisfied Puzsta , married a Germanic princess (surprise!), And the spigot on their wedding night.

Hun Empire did not survive his death, but had a troubled role in the West, the existence of the Roman Empire as a political entity it is little more than twenty years down the hill.

As this happened, the island of Britain was long (from 411) abandoned to their fate by the Roman legions, so the more Romanized Celts of the island had to go alone against the Picts and Scots North island. This took advantage of the Sea Peoples: Saxons, Angles and Jutes , who devoted themselves to occupy Britain. From the British resistance against the Anglo-Saxons would emerge the legend of King Arthur, a mythical figure who could bridge the Indians and defend the island against the invader. And yes, I say mythical not share the widespread enthusiasm for locating a real King Arthur, which have been sure it was a local leader with a victory. The character is more revealing as legend as reality: the longing for a single king traditionally fragmented compared to Britons, than if it was little above them also engaged in fighting each other. Certainly after the fall of the island in 500 many fled and settled in France, leaving his name to the region of Brittany.

The Northern Gaul was divided into several states Barbarian Alamanni in Alsace, with its capital in Strasbourg, francs Ripuarians around Cologne and Salian Franks at Tournai . Soissons around a small kingdom was organized under the command of Roman Siagrio and between Lyon and Geneva are organizing the Arian kingdom of the Burgundians , the rest of Gaul and part of Hispania was occupied by the Visigoth king Eurico , which occupies Auvergne and Provence.

back to Rome ... well no, the capital of the West now is Ravenna, from Attila, the imperial title was a toy in the hands of various Germanic warlords who haunted the Court granted various emperors, each more manageable as above, until Odoacer, the son of a secretary of Attila, deposed Romulus Augustus, last emperor ...

And here ends the post with the start of the Middle Ages and the end of the Roman Empire in 476 .

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Vengaa, you almost have believed it. But after some post could not leave it at that.

... the last emperor of the West, because the East is one, and he sends Odoacer their badges and their respects. Neither made any new emperor and taken to If the title was named consul in the East, so honor, and ruled Italy as such, theoretically acting on behalf of the Emperor of Constantinople. That certainly

East hardly fazed by this, were given to reform its army to expel foreigners it and create a native, recruited mainly in the region of Isaura. In fact they were so good that the army leaves the new dynasty of Constantinople: the Isaurians. The first, Zeno, was found again with the problem of the Ostrogoths, who had been released from Attila went out there causing trouble. Therefore, Zeno sent Theodoric the Great Ostrogoths to Italy to get rid of Odoacer, would not accommodate a lot, and so the two were busy (divert the problems the West had proved why change?). The following map is relatively well.


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and the Western Mediterranean is in the hands of Germans very Romanized and Christian religion Arian, Theodoric in Italy, Provence and part of the Balkans, Visigoths in Hispania, and the Vandals in northern Africa. The Gauls are a conglomerate of kingdoms: Alamanni, Thuringia, Burgundians, of Burgundian ... Arian religion.

But he was soon to change this: Clovis, the Franks brought together, the less Romanized of all, in 481, defeated the Alamanni, Thuringian and Burgundians, and converted to Catholicism directly from their pagan religion, winning the favor of the Catholic clergy . In 511 all Gaul is free except for Provence in the south and the kingdom of the Burgundians in the current Burgundy.

Keep in mind that sometimes the Germanic population was 5% of all the kingdoms they founded, over millions of Roman subjects, why they chose to settle regions or cities of strategic value. And we know that changed all that much.

Theodora, for example, traders continued nurturing eastern Italy, where there was no nostalgia for the previous period. In fact, Italy Ostrogothic of Theodoric was a very strange formation in which the games were still in the circus and the amphitheater and the ancient Roman families contended by the magistrates as ever. Who knows, maybe he could have revived the imperial title of the West centuries before Charlemagne.

So interesting and so well were doing fusion with an aggressive Roman emperor of Constantinople, Justinian, preferred to be cautious and decide it was time to regain what he considered his own in a time when Eastern Empire lived a golden age in the mid-sixth century. No more Ostrogothic kingdom. And later Justinian would imperil the restauratio and would end the Vandal kingdom in North Africa.



But for example, in the Frankish kingdom in the early 570 Chilperic record that we have built for chariot-racing circus in Soissons and Paris, openly emulating the Roman practice. Eurico
And the Visigoths (466-484), for example, had very Roman gestures: Lampridio protected, Latin poet, and contributed to the restoration the great Roman bridge of Merida, noting the company in a Latin inscription in verse.

This brings us to the sixth century, must see! from the first post ... back in the third century. For a century the Germanic kingdoms experiment was declining while Arian Christianity was giving way to Catholicism, new powers appeared: Islam, the Pope of Rome and the Frankish Empire, whose fragmentation arises feudal system.

Then, in the eighth century, with a Mediterranean split into three, and Islam, secular rival to force the West to reinvent itself when opened can be considered the Middle Ages.

And the story ends ... special post will be from where you can access this EPIC saga! to the right of the blog, and incidentally include a special bonus track of the most interesting. Then I will focus on cortitos things for a while, but very nice all of them.