The ancestors of western Britain, Germany and the United States feared Huns like tigers. How did the Germans start violence?

In today's western society, the United States, Britain and Germany all claim to be civilized people. They are cocky in other parts of the world and often threaten economic sanctions or force. Let's just say that they were truly civilized people in ancient times, not to mention their sinful colonial history in modern times. Let's talk about how their ancestors, the Germans, started with violence. The story begins here:

One day in 376 AD, an emissary travelled to Rome, demanding to see the emperor Wallis. ? What brings you to Rome? Wallis asked, sitting on his throne, half squinting. ? Respect your noble majesty, the visigoths ask your majesty to allow them to cross the Danube and take refuge in the Roman Empire. ? The messenger replied humbly. Wolins listened, frowning and silent. When the messenger saw this, he was secretly worried. He stepped forward and asked, Your Majesty, after the visigoths entered Rome, they must obey the imperial decrees and fight for the empire. Your majesty, please have mercy. ?

Indeed, Wolins thought. At present, the country is short of soldiers. If we let the visigoths cross the river to fight for us, it will not only expand the source of soldiers, but also save the cost of conscription. This will kill two birds with one stone. So he turned grief into joy and agreed to the messenger's request. ? However,? Waring's face fell again to warn? You must tell the visigoths that you must hand over your weapons and take your wife and children hostage! ?

A few days later, thousands of ragged, hungry and gaunt visigoths helped the old and the young, scrambling to board ships and rafts, and some even braved the wind and rain to cross the south bank of the Danube day and night. The river is raging, the waves are rolling, and I don't know how many people are swallowed up by the whirlpool. This tragic scene is the prelude to the migration of the Germanic people.

Where do visigoths come from? Why risk your life to cross the Danube? It turns out that the Goths are the largest, fastest-growing and most influential Germans. They migrated from the Baltic coast to the northern shore of the Black Sea in the 5th century A.D., and then moved to West Asia (now Romania), bounded by the left bank of the Transnistrian River, with ostrogoths in the east and Visigoths in the west.

In 375 AD, hundreds of thousands of burly tarquin people suddenly flew from the Central Asian prairie and swooped down to the East Goths like a gust of wind. Xiongnu was originally a nomadic people in the desert of Asia, which was divided into two branches: South Xiongnu belonged to the Han Dynasty government in China; After being defeated by the Han army, the northern Xiongnu marched westward and entered Central Asia. Tarquin was a soldier, and ostrogoths was vulnerable and forced to surrender.

Hearing this, the Visigoths were frightened and immediately rallied their forces to resist, but after repeated battles and defeats, they finally retreated to the Danube River and never returned, so they had to beg the Roman emperor to allow them to cross the river to avoid disaster. In this way, thousands of visigoth refugees settled in the southern bank of the Danube, the provinces of Misia and Thrace in the Roman Empire, ready to rebuild their homes. But their illusions were soon shattered. They were brutally oppressed and bullied by local Roman nobles and officials. Not only were the rations allocated to them by the empire settled, but many people were even forced to become slaves at the cost of a piece of bread or a glass of bad wine.

Finally, the unbearable Visigoths held high the banner of justice and set off a big riot. Local slaves and farmers responded. The fire of the uprising spread from Constantinople to the foot of the Alps. The rebels won many battles. In 378, in the Battle of the Adriatic Sea Fort (now edirne), the Visigoths defeated the Roman army, and the emperor Wallis was burned to death in a small room.

The Battle of Fort Adriatic sounded the death knell of the Roman Empire. The new Roman emperor Khodorkovsky I and the Visigoths struggled hard for many years, but they still failed to put out the fire of the uprising. Khodorkovsky I died in 395, and his two sons were in charge of the Roman Empire: the eldest son, Alcatraz, was the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, with the capital in Constantinople; Honori, the second son, was the emperor of the Western Roman Empire, and Rome was his capital. From then on, the Roman Empire was officially divided into two empires, the East and the West.

The Visigoths, led by leader alaric, continued to fight in the south and the north. They marched into Greece, Illyria, Italy and Rome with increasing momentum. Later, they entered southwest Gaul and northern Spain. In 4 19, Theodoric I, the new leader of the visigoths, established the visigoth kingdom in Toulouse, which was the first one established by the Germans in the Roman Empire? A savage battle? Kingdom.

When the flag of Visigoths fluttered in northern Italy, the marching horn of Vandals sounded on the Danube. Vandals are also Germanic peoples, who settled in present-day Hungary in the 4th century. In order to escape the ravages of the Huns, they embarked on a long journey of westward migration from 40 1. They crossed the Rhine, went south to Spain through Gaul, and then crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into North Africa. After ten years of fighting, they occupied Carthage, the capital of Rome and North Africa Province (on the coast of present-day Tunisian Gulf) in 439, and established the Kingdom of Vandal. In 455, the Vandals captured Rome and burned it for more than ten days. Numerous palaces, books and works of art were destroyed by the war disaster (destroying culture? Sabotage? Hence the name).

About the middle of the 5th century, Germanic Angles, some Saxons (also known as Saxons) and Jutes also set sail and crossed the North Sea from Northern Europe into the island of Great Britain. In the process of conquering the local Celts, many small countries were established and became the new owners of the island of Great Britain.

In the wave of Germanic immigrants, the Western Roman Empire fell apart. In 476, Odiak, the leader of German mercenaries in Western Rome, staged a coup and deposed Romulus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Augustus. This event marked the demise of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Western Europe.

Right here? A savage battle? When the kingdoms were established one after another, there lived a Germanic people in the lower reaches of the Rhine? Franks also entered the northern Gaul and began a great migration journey. However, their immigrants did not travel long distances like the Visigoths, nor did they cross the ocean like the Vandals. But gradually expanded to Gaul on the basis of the original residence. In 486, Clovis led the Franks to defeat the remnants of the Western Roman Empire in Gaul and established the Frankish Kingdom in Soisson, northeast of Paris.

In the turbulent tide of Germanic migration, Su Weihui, Burgundy, ostrogoths and Lombardy also established their own kingdoms. The German migration was magnificent and lasted for 200 years. On the one hand, the great migration was forced by foreigners to leave their homes and flee in all directions, on the other hand, it was to find fertile soil and wealth. Wherever the Germans went, the countryside was deserted, the cities were dilapidated, and the ancient and splendid Roman culture was devastated, devastated and sad. Nevertheless, the Great Migration buried the decadent slavery in Western Europe and pushed Europe into the feudal era.

After the great migration wave, the main distribution of Germans in central Europe gradually stabilized: Saxons and Germans among Germans settled in northern Germany; Some Franks settled in western Germany; Thuringians settled in central Germany; Aleman and Bavarians settled in southern Germany. British people also have a high proportion of Germanic descent. Considering that most immigrants in the United States come from Britain, there are also many Germanic descendants among Americans, and both Britain and the United States believe that they are descendants of Anglo-Saxons.