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The fall of Rome: beginning in the fourth century, an unprecedented wave of immigration washed over the Roman Empire, leading to the end of the empire in the West.(Geographic overview)
A monk or a priest or an emissary. "I wonder what I have become this day," the man in the garb of a priest thought as he walked the muddy path between rows of shoddy hovels. Ulfilas, the Bishop, scratched his head and mused that, as a younger man, he had once had a full head of hair. God had compensated him, he thought, giving him a full, thick beard.
God had also seen fit to challenge him. The son of Cappadocian parents who had been captured in a barbarian raid and carried off, he had been raised amongst those barbarians, the Goths, who lived beyond the Danube River. Among them he was raised to manhood, and afterwards, as their Bishop, he brought them ...
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