The Migration Period, also called the Barbarian Invasions or German: Völkerwanderung (wandering of the peoples), was a period of human migration that occurred roughly between 300 to 700 CE in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. These movements were catalyzed by profound changes within both the Roman Empire and the so-called 'barbarian frontier'. Migrating peoples during this period included the Huns, Goths, Vandals, Bulgars, Alans, Suebi, Frisians, and Franks, among other Germanic and Slavic tribes.
The migration movement may be divided into two phases: The first phase, between 300 and 500 CE, put Germanic peoples in control of most areas of the former Western Roman Empire. The first to formally enter Roman territory — as refugees from the Huns — were the Visigoths in 376. Tolerated by the Romans on condition that they defend the Danube frontier, they rebelled, eventually invading Italy and sacking Rome itself in 410 CE, before settling in Iberia and founding a kingdom there that endured 300 years. They were followed into Roman territory by the Ostrogoths led by Theodoric the Great, who settled in Italy itself. In Gaul, the Franks, a fusion of western Germanic tribes whose leaders had been strongly aligned with Rome, entered Roman lands more gradually and peacefully during the 5th century, and were generally accepted as rulers by the Roman-Gaulish population. Fending off challenges from the Allemanni, Burgundians and Visigoths, the Frankish kingdom became the nucleus of the future states of France and Germany. Meanwhile, Roman Britain was more slowly invaded and settled by Angles and Saxons.
The second phase, between 500 and 700 CE, saw Slavic tribes settling in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in eastern Magna Germania, and gradually making it predominantly Slavic. The Bulgars, a now-Slavicized people possibly of Turkic origin who had been present in far Eastern Europe since the 2nd century CE, conquered the eastern Balkan territory of the Byzantine Empire in the 7th century CE. The Lombards, a Germanic people, settled northern Italy in the region now known as Lombardy. Migrations of peoples, although not strictly part of the 'Migration Age', continued beyond AD 1000, marked by Viking, Magyar, Moorish, Turkic and Mongol invasions, and these also had significant effects, especially in Central and Eastern Europe.
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I've seen multiple instances of media refering to the internationale as China's national anthem over the past few days.
Kinda shocking that journalists wouldn't care to check something so basic about a country they're writing about but also completely expected
It's wild how wrong people can be about non NATO aligned countries. Boris Johnson claimed that Russia was Communist back in 2019 and received no media pushback for it.
I cannot roll my eyes hard enough at redditors soyfacing over the protests in China, has there ever been a website that has been more wrong about anything than Reddit?
The daily mail comment section on articles about trans people?
finally starting to make excuses for the lack of terror:
- left the oven on
- traffic was pretty bad
- the game was on
- i had a doctor's appointment
- didn't feel like it
- I found a 6 hour long video essay about a topic that I've never heard of and had to watch it
Had a guy over last night who waited until after sex to browse my bookshelf and compare Maos little red book to Mein Kampf.... Guess I need to show off the bookshelf first...
I just want to say that this story is very funny and I am going to steal it and say that I came up with it.
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I can't believe Hexbear would make this post after Rome was definitively proven to be false.
Just because it's fake doesnt mean it isnt good world building
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Me to me: I'm such a f-slur (internalised homophobia)
Lol I love how during the George Floyd protests people tried to dismiss the unrest as "it's external agitators" (??), but everytime a crowd of like 30 people gathers in China a change of government is inevitable.
That was one of the funniest fucking things. They pulled that "outside agitators" shit HARD all over the news, then within 1-2 days there were simultaneous protests in every single state. I think at a fundamental level, the left realized, "We can't just let them send all the national guard resources to Minneapolis and crush this thing. We need to start fucking shit up all over and keep their resources spread." It wasn't enough this time around, but this kind of solidarity is what it is going to take.
Yeah I remember it happening when that undercover cop came in and tried to pull some shit early on, anyone else remember that? Then the media went bonkers over "oh these are peaceful protests EXCEPT"
I think an important threshold was crossed this time around. Normally, all the feds need to do is send in some fucking goon to start setting fires. Then the protest is de-legitimized and it can be swiftly crushed. While this still works on a lot of naive people, an unprecedented number of people rejected this premise and embraced the cool zone.
I'd moreso say SeventyTwoTrillion and thelastaxolotl
Them, or maybe :bottom-speak: because its floofy hair is v cute
i'm getting recommended Ben Shapiro and Tim Pool shit on Twitter now. Fuck you Elon :melon-musk: :stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2:
I took the last week off work and fuccckkk I don’t want to go back tomorrow. MFers don’t understand that December is meant for coasting, eating and drinking.
Just want to get started on my hibernation :bear-despair:
Really freaks me out that it's possible for people to not have an internal monologue or an inability to conjure images in their head. It's so wild that people's brains can function so differently.
I wonder if that makes it more difficult to function (given that modern society requires a pretty specific way to function) or if it doesn't make a difference since you've been that way since birth
My internal monologue disappeared at age 19 or something. I don't think it's a big difference, it just feels like there's a shorter distance between myself and my thoughts.
No opinion on aphantasia though. No idea how vivid my mental images are relative to other people.
Does your internal monologue say literally all your thoughts? Like "turn left" "get in bed"?
I only hear it when I read (and even then it's just a voice, but it doesn't keep up with my reading speed). For normal thinking I don't really hear it, except various key words might be announced lol
Not literally all my thoughts, but more frequent than just reading.
I've recently given myself a new internet habit, which is to completely ignore all uncredited text and all screenshots of text. No sense wasting any time reading shit that's totally made up imo
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