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>be Vandals living around Baltic Sea
>get pushed out by Huns
>don't even know how to cross rivers so amass on the edge of the Rhine River, edge of Roman Empire
>only able to cross it when it freezes over one year
>just keep running until a fucking ocean blocks the way
>suddenly become expert sailors when just a few years ago didn't know how to cross a fucking river
>Boniface, governor of Roman North Africa, invites Vandals over to help in impending Civil War in exchange for land
>80,000 Vandals land on Africa to aid when Boniface writes to them saying "lol, false alarm, turns out that dick Aëtius was telling lies and there isn't going to be a civil war, so go away"
>Vandals get pissed and conquer North Africa, forming Vandalia
>as Aryan Christians they persecute the Catholics there
>Romans, being innately treacherous, murder their own emperor
>Emperor's widow asks the Vandals to invade Rome and save them from the dishonor of having to marry his murder
>conquer Rome
>basically own the Mediterranean for 100 years
Fucking Baltic snow savages went from not knowing how to cross a river to ruling the Mediterranean from the coasts of Africa.
Is there a crazier story for one people?
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>>1593166
Ando all they're known for now is Andalusia.
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>>1593166
Yeah, "ruling" the Mediterrenean, nice rule they got there, because conquering Carthage for some decades and then getting genocided by the Byzantines is such an achievement.
>Got slaughtered and expelled from Sardinia by the Byzantines after barely 70 years, the only contribution they made there was sinking part of the Imperial fleet at Olbia, which actually was only a dick move and contributed to the decline of Rome
>sacked Rome
>Try to invade Sicily, got their shit pushed in by another Germanic tribe
>After pillaging some fraction of the Mediterranean after having stolen Carthage's fleet they get slaughtered by the Byzantines like pigs
They were the most pathetic Germanic tribe ever and left no legacy.
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>>1593166
Normans were bretty gud
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>>1593629
They don't sound so pathetic, bro-anon.
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>>1593629
>left no legacy
What is vandalism?
Some people got really butthurt about them during the enlightenment.
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>>1593166
i'd forgotten about them
it is a pretty crazy story their migration
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