Chapter 6 - Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Creating a New European Society and Culture

Barbarians

Barbarians

________ were "imported "by the Romans as servants, slaves, and warriors.

Italy

In 452, the Huns invaded ________, commanded by Attila, the "scourge of God ..

Peasants

________ worked as tenants for a lord, a more powerful landowner who gave them land and tenements in exchange for their services and a share of their crops.

France

In the eleventh century ________, forty days of service a year was deemed sufficient.

Visigoths

The ________, skilled riders and powerful soldiers, were forced into the empire by the Huns, a famously vicious race from what is now Mongolia.

Barbarian legions

________ were led by Roman legions.

Zeno

________ (r. 474- 491), the Eastern emperor, accepted Odovacer's power in the West, and Odovacer recognised ________ as the sole emperor, contenting himself to serve as ________ Western viceroy.

Italy

The Ostrogoths migrated to ________, the Franks to northern Gaul, the Burgundians to Provence, the Visigoths to southern Gaul and Spain, the Vandals to Africa and the western Mediterranean, and the Angles and Saxons to England.

Italy

________ and the "eternal city "of Rome suffered catastrophic blows in the early fifth century.