The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . GOTHS ON THE MARCH by the Germanic tribes to which we havereferred above. The country between theRhine River and the Pyrenees Mountains,which had been called Gaul when the Gaulslived there, became France when the Franksconquered the Gauls and stayed to live amongthem. In like manner, two German tribesbecame the master races in Spain. The Bur-gundians came down from the shores of theBaltic Sea and gave their name to their newhome in the fertile valley of the Saone (Son); The Map of Europe 41 the Vandals came out of Germany to roam th
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . GOTHS ON THE MARCH by the Germanic tribes to which we havereferred above. The country between theRhine River and the Pyrenees Mountains,which had been called Gaul when the Gaulslived there, became France when the Franksconquered the Gauls and stayed to live amongthem. In like manner, two German tribesbecame the master races in Spain. The Bur-gundians came down from the shores of theBaltic Sea and gave their name to their newhome in the fertile valley of the Saone (Son); The Map of Europe 41 the Vandals came out of Germany to roam through Spain, finally founding a kingdom in Africa; while the Lombards crossed the Alps to become the masters of the Valley of the Po, whither the Gauls had gone before them, seven hundred years earlier. The island now known as Great Britain, , Invasionswhich was mhabited two thousand vears ago of Britain. FRANKS CROSSING THE RHINE by the Britons and Gaels, Celtic peoples, wasoverrun and conquered in part about 450 the Saxons and Angles, Germanic tribes,after whom part of the island was called Angle-land. (The men from the south of England areof the same blood as the Saxons in the Germanarmy, against whom they had to fight in thegreat war.) Then came Danes, who partially 42 The Story of TheNormans conquered the Angles and Saxons, and afterthem, m 1066 , the country was againconquered by the Normans, descendants of someNorsemen, who, one hundred and fifty yearsbefore, had come down from Norway and con-quered a large territory in the northwesternpart of France. In some cases, the conquered tribes moved 4iip- - ^;-,^s^
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