All Rome wanted to do was keep the barbarians ... towers along the Danube as an alarm system that sounded if barbarians began attacking. Typically built of stone, the watchtower (right) is ...

"Despite the negative connotation their name now carries, the Vandals conducted themselves much better during the sack of Rome than did many other invading barbarians," Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen ...

As the Eastern Romans, for example, one of your objectives is to bring Rome under your control; so once you've defended the empire from the relentless attacks of the barbarian hordes, the Western ...

We think of barbarians as outsiders, but many were part of Rome itself. They traded, fought, and even rose through the ranks of Roman society. Their quiet influence changed the empire forever.

The pressure these invaders put on the Empire (and on each other) eventually led them to the gates of Rome itself bringing ... are vulnerable to quick attacks, the barbarians will find that ...