Migration of peoples

Germanic tribes around 400 AD.
The migration of peoples reaches its greatest intensity during the period from the 4th to the 6th century. Triggered by migratory movements of the Huns, who suddenly left their settlement areas in the steppes north-east of the Black Sea, the Germanic peoples began to move and were violently pushed across the borders of the already rotten Roman Empire. The Romans settle some tribes in endangered areas, in some cases as allies, and are thus able to delay the fall of the empire somewhat.
During the three centuries, the Visigoths, for example, left their settlement area on the Danube and established a large empire in southern France and Spain, while the Angles and Saxons conquered England, which had been vacated by the Romans at the beginning of the 5th century, from what is now northern Germany. The Vandals set out from their positions in present-day Poland, crossed the Rhine in 406 and reached North Africa.
In 413, the Burgundians founded an empire on the Rhine with Worms as its capital. The Huns, who triggered the movement, finally appear under King Attila himself in what is now France, where they are defeated by the allied Romans and Goths on the Catalaunian Fields in 451. These events are reflected in the Song of the Nibelungs.
The Ostrogoths conquered Italy under Theodoric around 490 and founded an empire with Ravenna as its capital on the ruins of the Western Roman Empire. However, this Gothic empire was later conquered by Byzantium, the Eastern Roman Empire.
Finally, the Franks founded a large empire from the Rhine, which later took over the legacy of the Roman Empire.
Our series shows a Germanic migration with mounted scouts, warriors, women, young men, cattle and dogs; with ox and horse-drawn carts and two large covered wagons, each with four oxen.