Roman Barbarian Invasions

The cause of the fall of Rome was the Barbarian invasions (“Ten Theories” 10). Barbarian Invasions were caused when in the third century A.D. the Roman soldiers were withdrawn from the Rhine Danube frontier to fight in the civil war in Italy (“Ten Theories” 10). The absence of the Roman soldiers caused the border to be left wide open for many Empire’s to attack (“Ten Theories” 10). At the beginning there was two major groups of raiders, they were the Huns, and the Goths,the Huns were from Central Asia and ruled by the fearsome leader named Attila(“Bernstein and Shek 363”).The Goths were made up of the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths,they were mainly feared by the Roman leaders (“Bernstein and Shek 363”). The reason for this was because they