Compare what you have with what I put below. I don't expect you to have everything, but check and see how many of the BOLD main ideas you were able to get in class today.
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FRANKS
Perhaps the most influential of the barbarians who overran the crumbling Western Roman Empire. They led to the beginning of a new world order.
By 310, Rome was weakening, due to the combination of Germanic invaders from the north and civil wars. The Franks were organized into groups, led by chieftains, and were often in search of new lands. They were a ferocious warrior culture, but Rome hadn't had as many problems with them in the past.
However, the Romans tried to use them as a buffer between the Empire (their wealthy province of Gaul) and other barbarians, setting up a province known as Toxandria in present-day Netherlands. The Franks settled down into farming communities, and were soon culturally transformed, becoming similar to Romans except for religion.
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The pagan religion practiced by the Franks led Christians to see Franks as uncivilized; it would likely take some sort of miracle for the Franks to convert. Gaul (France, Belgium, Switzerland, parts of Germany/Italy) is soon evacuated by the crumbling Roman Empire, and the Franks continue to migrate south from Toxandria.
In 446 Merovich (later to begin the Merovingian Dynasty) led the Franks in battle against the retreating Romans, and reached an agreement with the Romans to protect the frontier.
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Merovich grows stronger as a leader, and in 451, at the Battle of Chalons in central France, he JOINS the Romans against a barbarian army led by the fearsome Attila the Hun. The coalition succeeds, but unfortunately for the Romans, their new allies (the Franks) prove to eventually be troublesome, expecting to gain favors for their support of the Romans. Merovich dies only six years after the Battle of Chalons.
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Video notes:
FRANKS
Perhaps the most influential of the barbarians who overran the crumbling Western Roman Empire. They led to the beginning of a new world order.
By 310, Rome was weakening, due to the combination of Germanic invaders from the north and civil wars. The Franks were organized into groups, led by chieftains, and were often in search of new lands. They were a ferocious warrior culture, but Rome hadn't had as many problems with them in the past.
However, the Romans tried to use them as a buffer between the Empire (their wealthy province of Gaul) and other barbarians, setting up a province known as Toxandria in present-day Netherlands. The Franks settled down into farming communities, and were soon culturally transformed, becoming similar to Romans except for religion.
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The pagan religion practiced by the Franks led Christians to see Franks as uncivilized; it would likely take some sort of miracle for the Franks to convert. Gaul (France, Belgium, Switzerland, parts of Germany/Italy) is soon evacuated by the crumbling Roman Empire, and the Franks continue to migrate south from Toxandria.
In 446 Merovich (later to begin the Merovingian Dynasty) led the Franks in battle against the retreating Romans, and reached an agreement with the Romans to protect the frontier.
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Merovich grows stronger as a leader, and in 451, at the Battle of Chalons in central France, he JOINS the Romans against a barbarian army led by the fearsome Attila the Hun. The coalition succeeds, but unfortunately for the Romans, their new allies (the Franks) prove to eventually be troublesome, expecting to gain favors for their support of the Romans. Merovich dies only six years after the Battle of Chalons.
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