GERMANIC INVASIONSby: destiney riley

ORIGINS➔ c1570-1200 BC ; the Germanic tribes probably

occupied modern day Danish peninsula, lower

Sweden, and northern Germany

➔ c750 BC ; there is archeological evidence that

Germanic tribes lived in southern Scandinavia

and along the North Sea and Baltic coasts

● the tribes developed a democratic

warrior culture and as they migrated

south that created a kingship

● the most significant aspect that the

Germanic tribes had was the

comitatus, which was a voluntary

warrior group based on loyalty to

the king

400 - 500

➔ 409 ; Vandals (a Germanic Tribe) make their way south, destroying everything in their path until

they settle down in Spain for a number of years

➔ 451-452 ; The Germanic and Roman troops teamed up to stop Attila from invading Italy and

France

➔ 455 ; The Vandals (the ones that stayed up north) went down to Rome and destroyed the city.

This is where we get the word vandalism.

➔ 496 ; King Clovis organized his tribes under the Christian religion.

➔ 400 - 500 ; The Germanic tribes are being pushed towards the west due to the eastern tribes,

like the Huns.

500 - 600➔ 507 ; Alaric II was killed by King Clovis single

handedly at the Battle of Vouille.

➔ 535 - 553 ; The Ostrogoths were conquered by

Rome in the Gothic War, which devastated

Italy.

➔ 553 ; The Ostrogoths and the Byzantine fought

five great battles before the Ostrogoth king was

killed.

➔ 568 ; The Lombards moved down to northern

Italy and gained the country easily due to being

ravaged by war and the plague.

➔ 575 ; The Lombards moved down to the

southern peninsula of Italy

EUROPE IN 530

600 - 700➔ 604 ; A truce was made between

the Lombards and the Italian

government

➔ 622 -627 ; The Avars were

appeased and Emperor Heraclius

got a victory near the ruins of

Ninevah.

➔ 640 ; Germanic and Slavic tribes

occupy the Dalmatian islands

➔ 687 ; Pepin set himself up as a

major dumas under the Frankish

kingdom

EUROPE IN 600

700 - 800

➔ 711 ; The Visigothic rule was ended in Spain at the Battle of Guadalete

➔ 711 - 732 ; Muslims invade and capture southern Spain, Narbonne, Carcassonne

➔ 732 ; Charles Martel expanded the Frankish kingdom on the east

➔ 752 ; Pepin the Short is recognized king by the pope

➔ 774 ; Conquests of Charlemagne start

➔ 789 ; Vikings begin attack on England

CHARLES MARTEL

800 - 900➔ 800 ; Charlemagne had his coronation

➔ 814 ; Charlemagne dies

➔ 825 ; The Mercian King was overthrown by a

West Saxon

➔ 843 ; Frankish empire divides

➔ 871 - 899 ; Alfred the Great creates a

system of government and education that

unifies the Anglo-Saxon states

EUROPE IN 800

900 - 1000

➔ 911 ; Viking chief Rollo forms a treaty with King Charles.

Rollo converts to Christianity and is granted Charles’

daughter’s hand and land that would become Normandy,

France

➔ 962 ; Otto the Great defeats Hungarians and is a result is

named Emperor of Rome

➔ 981 ; Erik the Red discovered Greenland

ERIK THE RED

SOURCES

➔ http://www.garnetminstrelles.com/Outside2/SocialStudies/Kuhns/Europe%20400-

1000%20The%20Dark%20Ages.htm

➔ http://www.korcula.net/ppages/markomarelic_german.htm

➔ https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_GermanicInvasions.htm

➔ http://peter.mackenzie.org/history/hist33141.htm

➔ http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/romanbritain/a/timeromanbrit.htm

➔ http://www.tacitus.nu/historical-atlas/francia.htm

➔ http://viking.no/e/etimeline.htm