Literally from vulnerability,
In the years of glory, the Roman Empire protected its capital by stopping invaders in Northern or SOuthern Italy before they got to Rome. Rome is also pretty far from the sea, which was well guarded too so it wasnt easy.
In 370AD though, Constantine moved the capital of the Roman empire from Rome to Constantinople (Istanbul). With the capital went the emperor, the legionares, the senate, and all of the body guards and protective solders who went with them.
Years after, the city was weak and vulnerable, most of the residents still lived in Rome and many merchants as well, like gold, silk, ivory, and spice merchants. Barabarian hords from the Germanic States to the north saw this as a golden opprotunity, the broke into the city and ransacked it. Romans got together and offered them a bribe to leave the town and they did, but the roman army had failed and the western provinces had fallen.
Aleric
Well there are two sections of the Roman Empire, the Western and the Eastern (which didn't end until 1527), but I'm going to assume you mean the Western. Rome was sacked multiple times throughout history, but the three most prominent times are by Visigoths in 410 AD, and the Vandals in 455 AD, and the Ostrogoths.
they captured rome in 410 A.D
In the 5th century C.E., Rome was sacked twice by "barbarian" forces. In 410, Alaric led a force of Goths (or, Visigoths) into Italy, sacking Rome and other cities. Later, in the 480s and 490s, a force of Germanic peoples known as Ostrogoth's invaded Italy, captured Rome, and set themselves up as the rulers of the conquered territory, thus bringing the Western Roman Empire to its formal end.
The group that invaded the city of Rome before moving on to Spain was the Visigoths. Led by their king, Alaric I, they famously sacked Rome in 410 AD. After this invasion, the Visigoths continued their journey and eventually settled in what is now modern-day Spain, establishing a kingdom there. Their invasion marked a significant event in the decline of the Western Roman Empire.
Aleric
They sacked Rome in 410 AD. The Romans didn't treat them very well and kept them from building and from food. They were upset...
Alaric successfully besieged Rome and the Visigoths sacked the city.
Ancient Rome was sacked four times (by the Senone Gauls in 387 BC, the Visigoths in 410 AD, the Vandals in 455 Ad and the Ostrogoths in 546 AD). Some of the times Rome was besieged, she was also sacked. When sieges of Rome were abandoned, this was due to the protection given by the city walls and good organisation of the defence of the city by its citizens or the arrival of Roman armies from elsewhere.
The city of Rome was first conquered by foreign invaders in 410 AD, when the Visigoths, led by King Alaric, sacked the city. It was then again conquered in 455 AD by the Vandals, led by King Gaiseric.
In 410 King Alaric I of the Visigoths besieged Rome for the third time. This time he also sacked it.
The Romans stopped making payments to the Goths, so it made the Goths furious. Then the Goths sacked, or destroyed, Rome in 410 AD.
He sacked Rome, which was practically defunct by then.
Well there are two sections of the Roman Empire, the Western and the Eastern (which didn't end until 1527), but I'm going to assume you mean the Western. Rome was sacked multiple times throughout history, but the three most prominent times are by Visigoths in 410 AD, and the Vandals in 455 AD, and the Ostrogoths.
In AD 410 the Visigoths, under Alaric I, became the first Germanic tribe to conquer the city of Rome itself.
If by Rome you mean the city of Rome, it was sacked by the Gauls in 390 BC, the Visigoths in 410 AD, the Vandals in 455 AD, the Ostrogoth in 546, the Normans in 1084, and the troops of the Holy Roman emperor in 1527. The Arabs also sacked the Vatican (but not Rome) in 846. If by Rome you mean the Roman empire, the western part of the empire was invaded by various Germanic peoples: the Vandals, Sueves, Alans, Burgundians, Alemanni, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians.
The German Invaders of the Roman Empire were often referred as vandals, but were originally called the Goths. ____ The group of Germanic invaders that sacked Rome in AD 410 was the Visigoths, headed by Alaric II.