WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Alaric leads the Visigoths in their sack of Rome in 410. The Visigoths were a Germanic people who lived throughout Eastern Europe. On August 27, 410, Visigoths from Eastern Europe ended a three-day sack of the city of Rome, which is now the capital of Italy.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.