WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Jordanes, a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat of Gothic origin-who later turned his hand to history-Alaric was born on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube Delta in present-day Romania and belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Thervingian Goths.

Detailed explanation-2: -What Alaric really wanted was land on which his people could settle and an accepted place within the empire, which the authorities in Ravenna would not give him. Needing to keep his followers well rewarded, he marched on Rome and besieged it until the Roman senate paid him to go away.