The Gertnan Invasions 333 year 476 been regarded as the date of the fall of the Roman Empire? Tell what you can of Theodoric and his kingdom. Contrast the Lombard invaders of Italy with the East Goths. Section 52. Who were the Franks, and how did their invasion differ from that of the other German peoples? What did Clovis accomplish, and what was the extent of the kingdom of the Franks under his successors ? Compare the numbers of the barbarians who seem to have entered the Empire with the number of people in our large cities to-day. Section 53. On what terms do the Germans seem to have lived with the people of the Roman Empire ? Why are the " Laws of the Barbarians" useful to the historian ? Compare the ways in which the Germans tried law cases with those we use to-day in the LInited vStates. Tell as clearly as possible why the Middle Ages were centuries of disorder and ignorance as compared with the earlier period.
