WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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. This was the first time Rome had been sacked, or defeated and looted, in nearly 800 years.

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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The Goths, who were groups of various Germanic tribes, moved into the Roman Empire largely because of the pressure of invasions from the Huns who came out of Asia.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Visigoths were settled agriculturists in Dacia (now in Romania) when they were attacked by the Huns in 376 and driven southward across the Danube River into the Roman Empire.