Identifier: dawnofamericanhi00nida (find matches)
Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ildren, these wild people de-stroyed whatever attracted their idle curiosity. The Vandals in Africa. — The Vandals ravaged Gauland Spain, crossed the straits of Gibraltar, and overthrewRoman authority in all northern Africa. Here they setup an empire of their own with Carthage as their capital. The Pirate Vandals. —- These Vandals, who had scarcelycaught sight of the sea for generations, now soon becamebold and daring pirates, spreading terror along the entireMediterranean coast. When their leader, Gaiseric, wasonce setting out on a plundering expedition, he was askedby his pilot which way to steer. Wherever there arepeople with whom God is angry, rephed the Vandal cap-tain. Vandals Looting Rome. — On one occasion they made adestructive raid on the city of Rome. For two weeks theyhunted out valuables and plundered the city. They carriedoff whatever goods and precious spoils they could lay theirhands on. But, Hke the Goths, they did not destroy BARBARIANS DESTROYING THE EMPIRE 69
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yo DAWN OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN EUROPE the buildings. They took away with them hundreds ofRoman citizens to serve them as slaves. We can see howlow Rome had sunk, when we are told that all this hap-pened without the Romans striking a single blow in theirown defense. The Franks. — Another German tribe, of whom we shalllater hear much, were the Franks, who gave their name tomodern France. The Franks for a long time had homes onboth sides of the lower Rhine. They were ruder and morebarbarous than the Goths, for they had not yet receivedthe gentle message of Christianity. A half century afterAlaric had ransacked Rome, the Franks began to add totheir territory by spreading themselves out slowly overnorthern Gaul. These wild warriors wrought havoc wher-ever they went. Other tribes who came into the Romanempire during these dark days were the Lombards, theEast Goths, the Burgundians, and the Suevi. Slipping Back into Barbarism. — From the fifth centuryon for three hundred years, the civil

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