Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . The German Invasions 25 the Vandalsin Africa the Vandals determined to move on across the Strait of Gibraltar Kingdom ofinto northern Africa, where they established a kingdom and con-quered the neigh-boring islands in theMediterranean (seemap, p. 29). Having rid them-selves of the Van-dals, the West Gothstook possession of agreat part of the Span-ish peninsula, andthis they added totheir conquests acrossthe Pyrenees in Gaul,so that their kingdomextended fr
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . The German Invasions 25 the Vandalsin Africa the Vandals determined to move on across the Strait of Gibraltar Kingdom ofinto northern Africa, where they established a kingdom and con-quered the neigh-boring islands in theMediterranean (seemap, p. 29). Having rid them-selves of the Van-dals, the West Gothstook possession of agreat part of the Span-ish peninsula, andthis they added totheir conquests acrossthe Pyrenees in Gaul,so that their kingdomextended from theriver Loire to theStrait of Gibraltar. It is unnecessaryto follow the con-fused history of themovements of theinnumerable bandsof restless barbari-ans who wanderedabout Europe dur-ing the fifth any partof western Europewas left unmolested;even Britainwascon-quered by Germantribes, the Anglesand Fig. 8. Roman Mausoleum at St. Remy The Roman town of Glanum (now called ) in southern France was destroyed bythe West Goths in 480. Little remains of thetown except a triumphal arch and the greatmonument pictured here. Above the mainarches is the inscription, SEX. L. M. F. PARENTIBUS. SVEIS, which seems tomean Sextus Julius and [his brothers] Luciusand Marcus, sons of Gains, to their parents 26 Medieval and Modem Times Attila andthe Huns The fall ofthe Empirein the West,476 Odoacer TheodoricconquersOdoacer andestablishesthe kingdomof the EastGoths inItaly To add to the universal confusion caused by the influx of theGerman tribes, the Huns (the Mongolian people who had firstpushed the West Goths into the Empire) now began to fill allwestern Europe with terror. Under their chief, Attila, this sav-age people invaded Gaul. But the Romans and the Germaninhabitants joined together against the invaders and defeatedthem in the battle of Chalons, in 451. After this rebuff in
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