Ostrogoths

The Huns were a nomadic people, meaning they had were wanderers who had no home set in stone, who left the steppes of Central Asia to find a better home. It is theorized that the Huns were traveling far away from an extremely dry period in which they could not survive. As they went through the land of Europe they were an almost unstoppable force that crippled or destroyed anything they came across. The Huns are mostly known for being an extremely war focused tribe, and being a war focused tribe they realised that the best way to fight against foot soldiers was on horseback. Recently a study had results that believed that an individual warrior among the Huns may have had as many as ten horses, in the case of one horse dying, becoming sick, getting…

The Huns The Huns were believed to be an ethereal tribe by all, due to their fighting skills. They were from the Altai Mountains or the Caspian Sea, which in modern society, is Kazakhstan (Mark). As the Huns migrated West towards the Roman Empire, they began to plunder and kill in the cities of the Romans. The Huns were led by Attila and his brother, but after killing his brother, Attila gained total control of the group (“The Huns”). Attila led the Huns to a prosperous, powerful, and…

Attila the Hun was a fierce warrior and tough emperor. Although many people know him from shouting, ”Punala!” while trying to have his army rip Ben Stiller in four, he is better known for the beginning the downfall of The Western Roman Empire. Many also never knew that he started his rule working jointly with his brother. When I first started learning about Attila I had three questions: How did Attila come to power? What did Attila do to gain full power? And How did Attila cause the beginning of…

Wherever this man went, destruction and ruin left a path behind him. He was called the “Scourge of God” but most commonly known as Attila the Hun . Attila lived from 406 CE to 453 CE , and most of his battles took place in or around the Roman Empire. Some view Attila the Hun as unsuccessful and unable to finish his military goals and conquests, but Attila’s strategies in military made him successful, as well as the influence his upbringing, reputation, and appearance had on the people. Attila…

The book I chose for my leadership essay is The Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts, P. This book was recommended to me by a former Ohio State University Military science professor Ret. LTC Mike Lear. Through the ages Attila the Hun has been branded as a barbarian that just leaded from fear and concurred by destroying every living thing in his path. That is far from the truth. Attila was a skilled leader that instilled many of what we would concise modern value into his…

When I was choosing a topic for speech to explain I wandered between historical options, and while I was reading about barbarians something in their history seemed me very familiar, just from yesterday news: unknown tribe appeared and instilled unbearable fear into habitants. They were killers. Thousands refugees tried to cross the borders of other countries to rescue their lives. It is not CNN. Therefore this determined choice of mine, the Huns. According to historian Kelly, Christopher…

formed the eastern Ostrogoths and the western Visigoths. Each Germanic tribe originated in a slightly different place, and each had a slightly different influence on the pre-existing roman world. To understand their influences, we must first look at where they come from. The Goths originated from Scandinavia and initially sailed under King Berig with three ships south into Denmark and the northern regions of Germany. Before 750 B.C the Goths had inhabited most of Denmark and the modern day…

The Baths of caracalla was named after the emperor Caracalla. His father Septimius Severus commissioned the baths and after his death the project was completed by his son Caracalla. These baths could have held up to 1600 bathers who were free to reposition from one pool to the other at their leisure.The Baths of Caracalla like all bathhouses in ancient Rome included three fundamental bathing rooms. The second thing that contributed to the fall of rome was a new religion. The new religion is…

Western Roman Empire was being replaced politically by a series of kingdoms ruled by German kings. Although the Germans now ruled, they were outnumbered by the Romans, who still controlled most of the economic resources. Gradually, the two groups merged into a common culture. The Roman emperor, Zeno, in Constantinople, was not pleased with Odoacer’s actions and had plotted to dismount him. In his devotion to act against the German leader, Zeno brought another German tribe, the Ostrogoths, into…

Visigothic Spain: o The Roman Empire began to show symptoms of it’s soon to be demise around the 3rd century AD. Taking advantage of the weakened Roman Empire, Germanic tribes migrated to Spain during the 5th century. These Germanic tribes were the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. The Ostrogoths were short lived, however the Visigoths rule lasted until the Islamic conquest. One of the oldest and most well preserved churches from the Visigoths rule is the San Juan Bautista de Baños de Cerrato.…