24. fall of rome & germanic tribes f

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Germanic Culture

History 126Dr. Anita Fisher

Why Germans Started Moving

•Fascination with Roman civilization

•Need for more land, food or booty

•Roman frontier offered jobs•Natural curiosity of man •Romans invited some tribes to

help against other tribes•Movement of Huns

German Tribes

•Visigoths = West Goths•Vandals•Lombards•Ostrogoths = East Goths•Burgundians•Angles, Saxons•Merovingians

Hunsin

Combat

Huns Partying

Goths

Hun Recurve Bow

Huns

AttilatheHun

Attila

Attilathe Hun

Alaric

Visogothic king

Theodoric

Theodoric's tomb

Visigothic

Ostrogothic Helmet

SaxonShort Fort

Glastonbury Tor

Tintagel

King Arthur Burial Site

Lombards

King & Queen of Lombards

Ratchis King of

Lombards

Theudelinda Queen

ofLombards

Lombard Broach

Lombard Bracelet

Brunhilda & Fredegunde

Brunhilda Opera

Death of Brunhild

a

Ostrogothic

necklace

Merovingian Illuminated Manuscript

Vandal Broach

Salian Franks

Baptisim of King Clovis

Wergeld

•Each person had worth

•Based on status & gender

•To prevent blood feuds

Proving Guilt & Innocence

•Oath-helpers’ testimony

•Ordeals by– Hot water– Hot iron– By fire– Cold water