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To Roman eyes, the tribe they called the Cimbri, the Cimbrians, lived “at the edge of the inhabited world”, in Jutland. In 120 B. C., they and other Germanic tribes began a mass migration. Now through excavations we learn about these ancient tribes and their lives.

The Goths rocked the Roman Empire and wrote themselves into history. Who were these tribes from the north that ended the rule of Rome?

For the people of the ancient world, the Huns were "the most feared of all warriors". Never before had people experienced such brutal fighting. The power of the mounted nomads became a threat to Rome, but other tribes were also on the move and headed to the center of a weakened empire.

Starting in the fifth century A.D. the Franks migrated to France, the Anglo-Saxons to Britain, and the Goths to Spain and Italy. Europe and the Christian West grew out of their empires and their migrations.