Important Geographical Considerations (6th-10th century)

Question 1

Ostrogoths

Answer 1

central and northern Italy, and sometimes into southern Gaul

Question 2

Visigoths

Answer 2

Spain, at times into the Aquitaine region of Gaul up to Bordeaux

Question 3

Vandals

Answer 3

having caused havoc while roaming round the Mediterranean, they finally settled in Latin North Africa, southern Italy, and the western Islands (Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily)

Question 4

Burgundians

Answer 4

the central eastern part of Gaul, roughly corresponding to modern day region of Burgundy (it is not known if they realized what a gold mine they were sitting on with those grapes…)

Question 5

Franks

Answer 5

At first northern central Gaul above the Rhine, but eventually the whole of central Gaul under the Merovingians; and Europe from the Pyrenees to beyond the Rhine into Germany, as well a great part of Italy, under the Carolingians

Question 6

Saxons

Answer 6

northern Germany; many, along with the Angles and Jutes stretching up into the peninsula of Denmark, colonized England

Question 7

Lombards

Answer 7

After the 6th century, they inhabited northern Italy, pressing down to Rome, as well as Duchies in the south (e.g., Benevento)