The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century: An ...

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In the first century of the Middle Ages, Iberia was governed by the Kingdom of Visigoth. After the invasion of the Moors (Muslims in northwestern Africa), the rest of the early medieval period was characterized by Islamic rule Iberia. Ethnically, the Moors include a mixture of Arabs, Berber people, and various people in sub-Saharan Africa. This area was protected by the Byzantine Empire of the Eastern, but Islamic invasion from North Africa (especially Iberia and Southern Italy) occurred in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Without such shields, the young kingdom of Western Europe in the Middle Ages could be conquered by the Islamic world, Western civilization may have disappeared.

During migration, the Germanic Visigoths departed to settle in Rome 's Hispania region from the northern house of the Danube river and established the kingdom over the wreck of the Western Roman Empire. The Visigoth state of Iberia is based on the power of aristocrats the king can call in the war. When aristocrats had their bucellarii, the king had his own gardingi and fideles faithful to himself. Visigoths like cavalry, and their favorite tactics, combined with mistaken retreat, are to run into the fight repeatedly. The fact that Muslims conquered the majority of Iberia in less than a decade implies a serious flaw in the Kingdom of Visigoth indeed, limited information is difficult to identify the exact cause of the collapse of Visigoths To do.

Since the beginning of the fifth century, the Western empire has become a place of much further immigration. Visigoths rushed to Italy from the Balkans and temporarily occupied Rome in 410. In 406 - 407, Silesian and east Germanic people and other tribes (Vandal, Alani, Sobie and Burgundy) crossed the Rhine and invaded their flight from Huns. The Spanish destroyer then crossed Africa and established the first independent German state of Carthage's Roman land. In the battle of the Platar Catalunya (451), under the support of Germany, Roman commander Asteus defeated Attila, Attila has a strong relationship with other Germans. Go west. The Balkan Peninsula was subjected to the third terrible attack in Eastern Germany; Jute from Jutland, Angles and Saxon crossed the UK. In the east, Imperial control is still a reality, and Constantinople was also known as "New Rome", but survived many sieges until the autumn of 1453.