Western Civilization I / Unit 8 WC1 0722 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Huns, Adrianople, 378, and Alaric's Sack, 410
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The idea
In three seventy-six the Huns drove the Goths across the Danube; extorted by Roman officials, the Goths rose and killed the emperor Valens at Adrianople in three seventy-eight, a witness name. Hired under their own commanders, they looted the Balkans, and Alaric sacked Rome in four ten.
In practice
The court moved to Ravenna.
Where people slip
The Goths were refugees before they were invaders.
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