1-6 Barbarians - The Savage Goths

The Goths were a heterogeneous East Germanic tribe. The historian Jordanes claims that the Goths originated in semi-legendary Scandza, believed to be located somewhere in modern Götaland (Sweden), and that a Gothic population crossed the Baltic Sea before the 2nd century. Jordanes also states that the Goths gave their name to the region they colonized, Gothiscandza, which is believed to be the lower Vistula region in modern Pomerelia (Poland). The archaeological Wielbark (Willenberg) culture is associated with the arrival of the Goths and their subsequent agglomeration with the indigenous population. However, the reliability of Jordanes, who wrote in the 6th century, is disputed, and there is also no archaeological evidence for a substantial emigration from Scandinavia.

From the middle of the 2nd century onward, groups of Goths migrated to the southeast along the River Vistula. They eventually reached Scythia at the coast of the Black Sea in modern Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, where they left their archaeological traces in the Chernyakhov culture.

In the first attested incursion in Thrace the Goths were mentioned as Boranoi by Zosimus, and then as Boradoi by Gregory Thaumaturgus. During the 3rd and 4th centuries, the Scythian Goths were divided into at least two distinct groups, the Thervingi and the Greuthungi, separated by the Dniester River. They repeatedly attacked the Roman Empire during the Gothic Wars. In the late 4th century, the Huns invaded the Gothic region from the east. While many Goths were subdued and integrated into the Hunnic Empire, others were pushed towards the Roman Empire.

The Goths were converted to Arian Christianity by the Arian half-Gothic missionary Wulfila, who found it necessary to leave Gothic territory for Moesia (Bulgaria) with his congregation. Here he translated the Bible into Gothic, devising a script for this purpose.

In the 5th and 6th centuries, the Goths separated into two tribes, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. Both established powerful successor states of the Western Roman Empire. In Italy the Ostrogothic Kingdom established by Theodoric the Great was defeated by the forces of the Eastern Roman Empire after the Gothic Wars. In Hispania, the Visigothic Kingdom, converted to Catholicism by the late sixth century, survived until the early eighth century, when it fell to Islam in the Muslim conquest.

The Gothic language and culture disappeared, with the exception of fragments in other cultures. In the 16th century a small remnant of a Gothic dialect was described as surviving in the Crimea.[4]

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[urbanurban12]

@TheLightascension88 Set mankind back 1000 years? Thats wierd? Roman revenge? Hahaha u negroes are so fcking dumb and ignorant; pseudohistorical idiots.

Defining the human value and human rights instead of blind social darwinism? Industrial revolution? The agrocultural revolution? The reinessance? The enlightenment? Fcking sub-saharan negro is the ONLY ONE that havent contributed to humanity? 55 000 years have you roamed the area and are yet to leave the stone age; IQ and race; google

[urbanurban12]

@TheLightascension88 Do you know that the "white germanic race" was the first to discontinue social darwinism(even though form of imperialism is still present)? Do you think african are peace-loving; what were the Zulu doing in S.A when the dutch came? They are not native to the area. Do you know what the chinise think of the japanese negro? Nanjing massacre negro, heard of it?

[urbanurban12]

@TheLightascension88 Ah let me guess; your one of those history revisionistic tin-foil hat negroes? Listen here negro; ALL dominant civilizations have practised social darwinism, slavery and what we today call "crimes on humanity" etcetera; the huns; the ottoman empire, the persian empire, the zulu, ALL! Do you know slavery is more prevalent today then ever negro? Have u heard of the nanjing massacre, arab slave trade, african cannibalism?

[2prissyful]

Thank you so much for this video; I trully enjoyed it. Excellent narator.

[Orthodox123456]

@TheLightascension88

Your a idiot

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

@TheLightascension88 what on earth are you talking about turd colored faggot?

germans were a free people who had christianity by the sword and roman incursions into their country. they fought back in a defensive manner.

also, europe was in invaded by nigger moors, arabs and asian scum far before europe did anything to them. tocharians were also slaughtered by asians,

case closed

[YamiBarai21]

Wotan hast gewinnen

[TheLightascension88]

all throughout history these people have cause nothing but death,destruction and disease. ask the chinese,indians,africans,japan­ese,south americans,and native americans. all have been affected dramatically by theses people. rome was the light of the world and they destroyed it and set mankind back by at least. 1000 years. do u think all the romans died out? do u think that they would want there revenge? could it possibly be that they r systematically destroying the germanic disease in this world

[joonte1010]

@ZeroBoostBuick Scandinavians is a East Germanic/North Germanic people. We are not Slavs.

[ZeroBoostBuick]

@joonte1010 Archeology and genetics speak for themselves... all of Eastern Germany was Slavic for thousands of years... only Germans claim that the Slavs moved to that area after the German tribes moved... total bullshit because archeology shows no such thing.