Emily McCrea
Roman legions evacuate Britannia in 406 AD
The Anglo-Saxons move into Britannia
The Huns push other groups westward, even-tually into Roman territory.
Aleric and the Visigoths destroy Rome, 410AD
Constantius III invades Visigoth-controlledRome to take it back
The Germanic tribes and Roman forces join together to defend against the attacking Huns led by Attila the Hun
They defeat the Huns and Attila is forced to stop westward expansion
In 475 AD, Orestes, aRoman general, forcedthe emperor (Nepos) offof the throne andappointed his own sonas new ruler
Hired mercenaries triedto convince Oresties togive them 1/3 of Italy
When he refused, themercenaries (led byOdoacer) killed him andappointed Odoacer asruler
By 500, different German kings ruled different portions of the Western Roman Empire
They had documents proving that they were only representatives of the “true kings” and they were there to reunite the empire
The outbreak of the Bubonic plague in 541 weakened the empire and made it more prone to invasions
Attempted to take back the western empire from the Germanic rulers (mid 500s)
His successors gave up on the western empire and allowed invaders to take what had been restored
Lombards, led by Albion, invade Italy in early 568
They take control but have a weak rule
Vikings start invading around 600
They came from northern Europe and would attack Britain and the area around northern Europe
In 732, Charles Martel leads a Frankish army and defeats the Ummayads, ending the spread of Islam in Europe
In 753, Pepin the Short is appointed and starts the Carolingian Dynasty
In 800, Charlamagne is appointed by the Pope as the Holy Roman Emperor
With Charlamagne’s death in 814, the empire weakens
In 840, a Frankish civil war ends in a 3-way division among the previous kings three sons
Alfred the Great gains control of most Britain and establishes it as the Kingdom of England (899)
King Charles the Simple gives part of northern France to the Vikings and the land is established as Normandy (911)
http://www.penfield.edu/webpages/jgiotto/onlinetextbook.cfm?subpage=1492781
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fallofrome.htm
http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/reference/worldhistory/sections/12barbar.html
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/germanic-invasions-400-1000
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