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Identifier: dawnofamericanhi00nida (find matches)
Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Alaric in Athens. centuries, and behold he died Hke other men. And itwas all so easy. What was there left now that theGermans could not do? Alaric Chosen King. — Other tribes crossed the Danubeon the ice and joined the Goths. After a few years thebold Alaric became their leader, and the mighty host sweptdown through Greece. Athens paid a ransom to be spared.Here Alaric enjoyed a Roman bath and a public banquetand tried to behave for a day Hke a Roman gentleman. Making Greece a Desert. — The Goths sacked thesplendid cities of Corinth and Sparta. They were eager for BARBARIANS DESTROYING THE EMPIRE 63
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ViCTOKV UF SaMOXHRACE. 64 DAWN OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN EUROPE gold and silver, for purple and fine linen, and, especially,for rich meats and intoxicating drinks. The splendidpieces of sculpture and beautiful paintings which the Ro-mans had spared to the Greeks, were now trampled in themud or broken by the huge battle-axes. No end of plunderwas drawn away in their oxcarts. Vineyards, olive groves,and orchards were laid waste; estates were destroyed;buildings burned; and men, women, and children wereplundered, stripped, and driven off in gangs to become slavesto the barbarians. The path of the Goths became like adesert. There was now no enemy in the eastern part of theempire that dared face the barbarians in the field. So theymarched hither and thither, wherever they liked, leavingdestruction behind. Marching on Rome. — Alaric was at last defeated by thegigantic Stilicho, a German who was in command of thearmies of the western empire. But after a time Alaricled his Gothic tribes from G

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