First Steps in General History. a Suggestive Outline
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455) sacked Rome, and the manner in which they injured and destroyed works of art there, gave rise to the term vandalism. The Visi- Goths and i\\Q Ostro- Goths were dis- tinguished about the year 330. The former, under Alaric, invaded Greece, pillaged Rome, a. d. 410, extended their sovereignty into France and Spain, and became somewhat civilized. They declined under the successors of Alaric, before the Franks, The Migration of Nations. 103 and were finally conquered by Clovis, a. d. 507, a lin...e of Visi-Gothic kings, however, ruled in Spain down to the year 711. The Ostro- Goths made frequent incursions into Roman territory alone, and hi conjunction with the Visi-Goths. In 2i^6 they were severely defeated by the Romans in attempting to cross the Danube, and afterwards settled in Phrygia and Lydia. In 450-453 they were with the Huns on the occasion of the great expedition of Attila against Gaul, and thousands perished at the battle of Chalons-sur- Marne, 451. They afterwards settled in Pannonia, and threatened the Eastern empire.
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