How did Europe restructure after the fall of Rome?

Answer 1

With the Germanic invasions, the Vandals took over Africa, the Visigoths, Sueves and Alans took over Spain and Portugal, and the Franks took over France southern Germany and Switzerland. In 800 Charlemagne defeated the Lombards in Italy and the pope gave him Italy and crowned him emperor. Charlemagne then invaded northern Germany and part of northern Spain. His empire covered most of Western Europe (except for Portugal, most of Spain, Denmark and Scandinavia).

Answer 2

The Germanic peopleswho invaded the western part of the Roman Empire formed their own kingdoms its former lands: the Kingdom of the Vandals in north-western Africa, the Visigoth Kingdom in south-western France, Spain and Portugal, theBurgundian Kingdom in eastern France, and the Frankish Kingdom in Holland south of the river Rhine, Belgium, and northern and central France. The Franks then developed the most powerful kingdom. They took over Alemannic possessions north-eastern France (Alsace) and Switzerland and their homeland in southern Germany (which had been outside the Roman Empire). They pushed Visigoths out of south-western France. They also conquered the Burgundian kingdom in eastern France. Thus, they conquered the whole of Gaul as well as southern Germany.

Later, Charlemagne, a Frankish king, conquered northern and central Italy, the southern side of the Pyrenees Mountains is Spain, Bavaria, Austria, Slovenia and northern Germany and created the Carolingian empire. This empire covered most of Western Europe.

The eastern part of the Roman Empire was not affected by the invasions and continued to exist for nearly another 1,000 years.