Germanic Kingdoms

1. 1. WHAT WERE THE GERMANIC MIGRATIONS?
The decline of the Roman Empire
• The Roman Empire had a big economic, social and military crisis since the third century
• As a result, Germanic tribes from the north started to attack the Empire
• In 395 the Emperor Theodosius divided the Empire in two parts to defend better the Roman territories:
• The Western Roman Empire (Spain, France, England, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia…)
• The Eastern Roman Empire (Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, Egypt, Palestina…)

2. Nevertheless, the Germanic
attacks were bigger and the
last emperor – Romulus
Augustulus – was deposed in
476
The Western part of the
Empire was divided in some
kingdoms like the Frankish
Kingdom, the Ostrogothic
Kingdom or the Kingdom of
the Visigoths.
Europe in 500 AD

3. During the sixth century the
Germanic kingdoms, the
Byzantine Empire and tribes
fight to set their kingdoms.
Europe in 600 AD
By the time of the sixth century, Western Europe had a big crisis because the
Germanic kingdoms didn’t have the organization of the Roman Empire
For that reason some Germanic Kingdoms assumed features from the Romans
like the language, the law or the religion which was the Christianity.

4. What did Britain look like in the sixth century?
Tribes from the north of Germany and
Danemark invaded the island and they fixed
kingdoms in the Eastern part of Britain.
They were the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes.
In the Western part of England, in Wales, in
Scotland and Ireland, the Celts remained.
(The Celts had been living in the Islands before
the Roman time).

5. It was the time of King Arthur
HOMEWORK: Write a composition about King Arthur (around 120 words) in your notebook
Search the information in internet and describe the legend and the reality of this king.
At the end, write down the websites that you have searched to write the composition.

6. REVIEW
Who lived to the north of the Roman Empire?
GERMANIC TRIBES
Who did the Emperor Theodosious divide the Empire
between?
Between his sons: Arcadius
(Eastern Empire) and
Honorius (Western Empire)

7. Where did the Franks live? Where did the Lombards live?
They lived in the current FRANCE They lived in parts of the current ITALY
Where did the Saxons and the Angles live?
They lived in the Eastern part of
the current ENGLAND
Where did the Ostrogoths live?
They mainly lived in parts of the
current ITALY before the lombards

8. What language did some Germanic kingdoms and tribes adopt?
Which languages come from Latin nowadays?
LATIN
THE ROMANIC LANGUAGES
What religion did some Germanic peoples adopt?
They became Christians