Nomadic Tribes

• Huns migrate from China to Eastern Europe
• A member of a nomadic pastoralist people who invaded Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries a.d.
•  were defeated in 455.

• Visigoths take over Spain, and actually capture and loot Rome itself in 410
• A member of the western Goths that invaded the Roman Empire in the fourth century a.d.
• settled in France and Spain, establishing a monarchy that lasted until the early eighth century.

• Vandals control Carthage and the western Mediterranean
•  A member of a Germanic people that overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries a.d.
• sacked Rome in 455.

• Other barbarian tribes:
• Ostrogoth in Italy
• One of a tribe of eastern Goths that conquered
• ruled Italy from a.d. 493 to 555.
• Franks in Gaul
• A member of one of the Germanic tribes of the Rhine region in the early Christian era
•  especially one of the Salian Franks who conquered Gaul about a.d. 500
• established an extensive empire that reached its greatest power in the ninth century.
• Angles and Saxons in Britain
• Angles- A member of a Germanic people that migrated to England from southern Jutland in the 5th century a.d.
• Saxons-  A member of a West Germanic tribal group that inhabited northern Germany
• founded the kingdoms of North Umbria, East Anglia, and Mercia, and together with the Jutes and Saxons formed the Anglo-Saxon peoples.