Chapter 12 Lesson 2 pgs. 354-355

Their name gave rise to the modern word for the willful destruction of property.

Germanic tribe that sacked Rome in 410 C.E.

Captured and looted Rome in 455 C.E.

The last emperor of the Western Empire, overthrown as a boy

Region invaded by Germanic tribes; modern-day France

Germanic general who overthrew the last Western Roman emperor in 476 C.E.

Visigoth leader who defeated Odoacer and ruled Italy

This year is commonly marked as the fall of the Western Roman Empire

Fought among themselves even after gaining Roman territories

Wrote about the impact of Rome's fall on its former citizens