Angles and Saxons - England
Vandals - Rome/ Carthage
Franks - France (Gaul)
Ostrogoth - Italy
Huns - Greece, Italy, Germany (covered a lot of ground)
Vosogoths - Spain
AFTER ROME 500-700AD
Germanic Kingdom of Western Europe
- Germanic Barbarians
- barbarian warlords and their families who assimilated into Roman Culture became the "nobles" or aristocrats of medieval Europe.
- Germanic tribes who ruled former Roman lands sought to conquer and assimilate other barbarian people.
- the Angles and Saxons invaded Britain and conquered.
- most Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity
- the most powerful tribe was the Franks
- real-power lay with the "mayors of the palace" (land owner who is their boss)
- From "eastern Europe" to "Byzantium"
- the eastern Roman Empire continued on but the west was left to die
- Justinian came to power in 527 and reunited the entire Roman Empire by reconquering the west
- he succeeded for a time, but he was soon conquered by barbarian tribes
- and then the plague depopulated much of the west
- Christian Empire
- the emporers thought of themselves as the heads of the Church
- Byzantines preserved Greco-Roman art, architectires, philosophy and writing despite much of it being non-christian
- Justinian built the massive domed Hagia Sophia ("Holy Wisdom") in Constantinople, considered to be the most glorious church on earth at the time
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