Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across the continent.

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Rome - and the Western Roman Empire - fell in 476 AD ... an invasion by multiple Germanic tribes, including the Franks, Vandals, Visigoths, and Marcomanni. Insane moment British troops blow ...

The Roman Empire is divided into two parts ... the third and fourth centuries A.D. A healthy Roman respect for Germanic tribes dates back at least to the time of Julius Caesar, who admired ...

The Romans viewed the Germanic tribes as little more than barbarians ... time Germany was a kingdom under the realm of the Holy Roman Empire, and in 962 Otto was crowned king of the empire.

Those who subscribe to this theory believe that the numerous commercial contacts between the Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. exposed the former to the Latin ...

Towards the end of the Roman empire, Brittania was under almost ... while from across the North Sea came the Germanic tribes - the Angles, Saxons and the Jutes. These events set off a whole ...

The plan worked and before long the Scottish tribes were seeking peace with the Romans. An engraving showing a battle between soldiers of the Roman Empire and German tribes. The Scottish tribes ...

With an empire built on force ... rallying the troops before leading them to victory against the Germanic tribes. Having turned a highly dangerous situation into a great victory, Germanicus ...