Twenty years later, the “barbarians” crossed the Strait of ... name becoming a synonym for senseless destruction –the Sack of Rome in 455 CE. Under Gaiseric’s leadership, the Vandals ...

Barbarian peoples—Swabians ... culminating in the Goth invasion of Italy and the sack of Rome in 410. As Gothic hordes looted the capital that year, the Huns were settling down on the grasslands ...