Revival History

 Under pressure from Huns to their east and seeing the Roman garrisons to their south and west weakening, on December 31, 406 A.D., Vandals and other Germanic barbarian tribes began to cross the Rhine River into the territory of the Roman Empire. It was one of the most momentous events in world history. Although it has never been definitively determined, it is likely that the Vandals migrated into what is now Germany from Scandinavia centuries earlier, after passing first through modern Poland. Throughout the first four centuries A.D. they had looked enviously across the Rhine at the wealth of the Roman civilization in Gaul (modern France) but the might of the Roman legions kept them at bay. But by the beginning of the 5th century Rome was in trouble. Goths had penetrated the empire from across the Danube, inflicting a stunning defeat on the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 A.D. As Roman forces pulled back to defend the Italian peninsula, the defenses along the Rhine were ...

 Under pressure from Huns to their east and seeing the Roman garrisons to their south and west weakening, on December 31, 406 A.D., Vandals and other Germanic barbarian tribes began to cross the Rhine River into the territory of the Roman Empire. It was one of the most momentous events in world history. Although it has never been definitively determined, it is likely that the Vandals migrated into what is now Germany from Scandinavia centuries earlier, after passing first through modern Poland. Throughout the first four centuries A.D. they had looked enviously across the Rhine at the wealth of the Roman civilization in Gaul (modern France) but the might of the Roman legions kept them at bay. But by the beginning of the 5th century Rome was in trouble. Goths had penetrated the empire from across the Danube, inflicting a stunning defeat on the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 A.D. As Roman forces pulled back to defend the Italian peninsula, the defenses along the Rhine were...