. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. the later Germanic king-doms. Odoacer did not rule long. Another branch of the Gothscame on the scene: the Ostrogoths, under a remarkable king— Armed with a kind of commission from theEastern Emperor, Theodoric led his people into Italy, over-threw Odoacers army, and slew its leader. From 493 to 526,Theodoric reigned in Italy, treating the Roman populationwith singular tactfulness, respecting their laws, rebuilding theancient monuments, fostering commerce, literature, and all the 1 Attilas power was not broken by thi
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. the later Germanic king-doms. Odoacer did not rule long. Another branch of the Gothscame on the scene: the Ostrogoths, under a remarkable king— Armed with a kind of commission from theEastern Emperor, Theodoric led his people into Italy, over-threw Odoacers army, and slew its leader. From 493 to 526,Theodoric reigned in Italy, treating the Roman populationwith singular tactfulness, respecting their laws, rebuilding theancient monuments, fostering commerce, literature, and all the 1 Attilas power was not broken by this battle. Next year he was strongenough to invade Italy, but in 453 he died, and the hordes that had obeyed himsoon drifted into civil war, in which the Hunnish nation practically destroyeditself. 2 Theodoric as a boy had been a hostage at Constantinople, and probablyhad imbibed there many ideas as to Graeco-Roman civilization and law andorder. The Ostrogoths had been vassals to the Huns. After the fall of Attilaspower, they had invaded the Balkan 16 HISTORY OF EUROPE fair things of peace. His successors, however, were less happyin dealing with their subjects, and in the sixth century itbechanced that at Constantinople there was reigning over theeastern part of the old realm of Augustus a great Emperor —Justinian (527-65). In the eastern part of the Empire many elements of theoriginal Roman power had Justinian was now ableto send out reorganized and formidable armies to recover apart of the lost western provinces. Before this attack theVandals of northern Africa succumbed; likewise the Ostrogothsof Italy: their very races were almost blotted out in the wars,and their ephemeral kingdoms became again parts of theRoman Empire, ruled now, however, by the Caesars, not ofRome, but of Constantinople. This imperial restoration, nevertheless, did not last long inItaly. About 568 the Lombards, one of the last of the Germanicpeoples to quit their northern homes,
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