Social Impacts Of The Barbarians On The Empire

Some of the social impacts of the “barbarians” on the empire were the dwindling population because of food shortages. For example, when the Vandals seized North Africa it halted the transportation of food supply to Rome. Also, as the different groups took over parts of the empire, they replaced the local’s culture with their own. When the Anglo-Saxons took over the Celtic region, they replaced the Celts’ language with their own. They also replaced Christianity with their own religious beliefs except in Wales and Ireland. The Franks’ king, Clovis founded the Merovingian kingdom which lasted for two hundred years as the Merovingians successfully found a way to incorporate their military expertise with the Roman’s social/legal customs. Also, their
locality in the far western area of Europe kept them far away and out of reach of emperor Justinian’s invasion of Italy.