CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
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Question
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The Visigoths
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The Ostrogoths
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The Huns
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The Vandals
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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: -Alaric, (born c. 370, Peuce Island [now in Romania]-died 410, Cosentia, Bruttium [now Cosenza, Italy]), chief of the Visigoths from 395 and leader of the army that sacked Rome in August 410, an event that symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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.