Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each Germanic kingdom to the territory it came to hold.
- Vandals
- Ostrogoths
- Visigoths
- Burgundians
- The Rhône valley
- Italy under Theodoric
- North Africa and Carthage
- Hispania, after losing Aquitaine
Hints
- One of these kingdoms took the empire’s richest grain-producing province.
- The Visigoths were pushed south of the Pyrenees after a defeat by the Franks in 507.
Show the answer
- Vandals → North Africa and Carthage
- Ostrogoths → Italy under Theodoric
- Visigoths → Hispania, after losing Aquitaine
- Burgundians → The Rhône valley
Why
The African kingdom mattered out of proportion to its size: Africa supplied Italy’s grain and a large share of western tax revenue, so the Vandal capture of Carthage in 439 did more fiscal damage to the western empire than the sack of Rome had done in 410.
Practise Late Antiquity and the Germanic Kingdoms
The app has 3 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. History II is free to start.
More questions on Late Antiquity and the Germanic Kingdoms
- Arrange these turning points in the western empire’s dissolution, earliest first.
- Odoacer deposed the last western emperor in 476 and sent the imperial insignia to Constantinople rather than…
- Germanic settlements arose through negotiated accommodation rather than wholesale external destruction. What…
- The Germanic successor kingdoms discarded Roman law and Roman administration and governed by custom alone.
- Sort each piece of evidence by whether it supports CONTINUITY across the fifth century or a genuine material…
- Complete the account of the religious division between the Germanic kingdoms and their subjects.
- In which year was Romulus Augustulus deposed, the date conventionally given for the fall of the western Roman…
- Which claims about the "fall versus transformation" debate are defensible on the evidence?
- At Adrianople in 378 the eastern emperor Valens was killed by Gothic forces the empire had itself admitted…
- Clovis converted to Nicene rather than Arian Christianity, unlike almost every other Germanic king of his…
- Arrange the stages by which a Germanic war-band typically became a territorial kingdom.