The Romans had created an enemy who looked to seek revenge at the nearest opportunity, right within their own borders. The Visigoths had another big reason to dislike Rome. Emperor Valens had promised them that they could be given land and slaves if they could control all the other barbarians along the Danube River.

Roman citizens were divided up into two distinct classes: the plebeians and the patricians. The patricians were the wealthy upper class people. Everyone else was considered a plebeian.

The plebeians comprised the majority of Roman citizens. Although patricians are often represented as rich and powerful families who managed to secure power over the less-fortunate plebeian families, plebeians and patricians among the senatorial class were often equally wealthy.

When we think about Rome’s enemies, it’s hard not to come up with one name right away – Hannibal of Carthage. Although – like so many adversaries of the Empire – Hannibal was eventually beaten, his incredible campaign has become one of the most well-known on this list.

So the Romans were there around 1.500 years before there were Vikings. The Viking age lasted four hundred years from 700 to 1100AD, and the Roman era lasted for one to two thousand years from 550BC to 450 and to 1450AD.

The Romans fought the barbarians at the borders of the Roman Empire for many years. In some cases, barbarians became part of the Roman Empire. In other cases, they fought wars and, eventually, sacked the city of Rome bringing about the end of the Western Roman Empire.

Christianity was spread among the barbarian tribes primarily by other tribal peoples. Patrick is remembered to this day as introducing Christianity to Ireland. He was one Celt spreading Christianity to other Celts. Later the Irish peregrine (“wandering monks”) carried the gospel to European tribes.

The ancient Greek word “bárbaros,” from which it derives, meant “babbler,” and was onomatopoeic: In the Greek ear, speakers of a foreign tongue made unintelligible sounds (“bar bar bar”). It was the ancient Romans, who by the original definition were barbarians themselves, who first transformed the use of the term.

Barbarian was used a general term by the ancient Romans and referred to people that did not live within the Roman Empire. Barbarians believed in different gods, ate different food, and wore different clothing styles.

Various deities found in Germanic paganism occur widely among the Germanic peoples, most notably the god known to the continental Germanic peoples as Wodan or Wotan, to the Anglo-Saxons as Woden, and to the Norse as Óðinn, as well as the god Thor—known to the continental Germanic peoples as Donar, to the Anglo-Saxons …

Some people consider the Vikings to be “barbarians,” even though they had advanced sailingtechniques that allowed them to colonize Iceland and sail to the New World. Today, some people even consider medical treatments that were used in ancient times as “barbaric” even though they are still used today.

Fish: such as salmon, trout and eels were also apart of their diet. Fish and meat were mostly eaten fresh, salted, pickled, smoked or even dried. Vegetables and Fruit: that were consumed by the vikings included potatoes, carrots, turnips and cabbages. Drink: vikings drank during their time period was ale.

These seafaring traders, settlers and warriors are commonly referred to as Vikings. The North Germanic peoples of the Viking Age as a whole are sometimes referred to as Norsemen. However, the term Norsemen is often used only for early Norwegians, or as a synonym for Vikings.

The people commonly called Vikings were the Norse, a Scandinavian sea faring people from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. In effect, they were the Germans who stayed behind, as many of the German tribes can be traced back to Sweden and Denmark.

Many Germanic tribes merged, including the Jutes with the Danes in Denmark, the Geats and Gutes with the Swedes in Sweden, and the Angles with the Saxons in England. Germanic peoples had a strong military, and warriors were fiercely devoted to their military leaders, or chieftains.

All of Great Britain and Ireland used to be Celtic.. until the Germanic peoples arrived. Today, the descendants of the original Celts are primarily Germans and Slavs, while the insular Celts (the Irish, Highland Scots, Manx, etc.) are descendants of the non-genetically ‘Celtic’ peoples of the Atlantic coast.

In the 21st century, its dialects are dying out due to Standard German gaining primacy. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic, also known as Common Germanic, which was spoken in about the middle of the 1st millennium BC in Iron Age Scandinavia….Germanic languages.