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The Migration Period
Also Known As Barbarian Invasions
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The Migration Period, also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history conventionally dated from about 300 to 600 CE, marked by large-scale movements of Germanic, Hunnic and other peoples across the continent that culminated in the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It overlaps substantially with Late Antiquity and the early span of the Post-Classical and Medieval Period, since the same population movements that ended the Western Empire also seeded the new kingdoms that replaced it.
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Geographic ScopeEurope, chiefly the territory of the Western Roman Empire and the Germanic and Hunnic homelands beyond its frontiers. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Late Antiquity, Eras Why this is disputed. Overlapping periodization: the same population movements that end the Western Roman Empire are described by Late Antiquity as continuity and by the Migration Period as rupture.
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a period in European history.
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a period in European history and late antiquity marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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The Migration Period (c. 300 to 600 AD).
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