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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 1659760, member: 5682&quot;]What a great piece of the past :thumb:</p><p><br /></p><p>I love the history behind that coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Visigoths were the best example of the overly simplistic “billiard ball” theory of barbarian migration. Here&#039;s a too superficial overview of their history:</p><p><br /></p><p>The Gothic peoples (who were from southern Scandinavia or, perhaps, modern day Poland) had been pressured by the Huns to enter the Roman Empire by AD 376. (This would later have disastrous results for the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople.) The Gothic peoples not absorbed by the Huns subsequently coalesced and became known as the Visigoths.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Visigoths, not happy with duplicitous Roman politics, eventually marched south into Italy with their demands for prestige and food. After sacking Rome in AD 410, the Visigoths migrated to southern Gaul. Prodded by the Romans, the Visigoths expanded southward to expel the Vandals from the Iberian Peninsula. The Vandals were, thus, forced to go to Northern Africa (continuing the billiard ball analogy of barbarian migration).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Franks (under Clovis at the Battle of Vouille’ in AD 507) then defeated the Visigoths and eventually forced the Visigoths from Gaul to south of the Pyrenees mountains. The Visigoths, then, slowly consolidated their power base in the Iberian Peninsula. Eventually the Visigoths absorbed any remaining Suevi and Byzantine remnants in opposition that were found in the peninsula.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a basic, but nevertheless, helpful and short video on Visigoth migration:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfCvH3_4zxY" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfCvH3_4zxY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfCvH3_4zxY</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Good stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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