A first book in American history with European beginnings . Alaric Entering Rome. Alaric was an able leader. He knew he could notcapture the great walled city by a direct attack, so hedrew his army around it and waited to starve the Romansinto submission. This he succeeded in doing, and thepeople had to pay an enormous ransom before he wouldlead his army away. Then, again and again Alaric asked for more land andprovisions for his people. But the foolish emperor re-fused to make terms with the Goths, and two years 27 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY after his first siege, Alaric captured Rome i
A first book in American history with European beginnings . Alaric Entering Rome. Alaric was an able leader. He knew he could notcapture the great walled city by a direct attack, so hedrew his army around it and waited to starve the Romansinto submission. This he succeeded in doing, and thepeople had to pay an enormous ransom before he wouldlead his army away. Then, again and again Alaric asked for more land andprovisions for his people. But the foolish emperor re-fused to make terms with the Goths, and two years 27 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY after his first siege, Alaric captured Rome in ordered his soldiers to respect the churches, but theydestroyed or carried off nearly everything else of was in 410 that the Imperial City fell before theGerman invaders, and from this time on, all Italy wasat their command. The Gothic armies swept downthrough the peninsula, leaving the country a wastebehind them. Not long afterwards this great leader died. Thestory is told that his followers turned aside the course of. Goths Sweeping Through Italy. a river and made his grave in its bed. Then they letthe waters flow back in their channel, that no one mightever know where Alaric was buried. No new leadercould take his place. The Goths drifted through thecountry, some settling in small groups where the landappealed to them, some going to south Gaul and Spain,where they became the ancestors of the modern the Goths were not the only Germanic invadersof Italy. Different tribes were continually crossing the 28 THE GERMANS border to conquer and destroy, and finally to settle downand mingle with the original inhabitants. A little morethan half a century after Alaric captured Rome, thegreat Roman Empire had been stamped out, but herinfluence lived on. Many art treasures were buried in the ruins of over-thrown cities and were thus preserved until moderntimes. In some country districts old Roman ideas andcustoms were kept. The Roman captives succee
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