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The Roman Empire is at the height of its power, and new Germanic tribes are constantly storming the borders of the Roman Empire, shaking the empire to its foundations. Around 120, it was the Cimbri and Teutons who first taught the Romans to fear, and later the legendary Visigoths and Ostrogoths set out on the longest march in world history. They fled from the Huns, the new, sinister enemy from the East. Under their king Attila, the wild horsemen seemed invincible. It was only when the Romans united with Germanic tribes that the Huns were defeated in the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields. But ultimately the Roman Empire could not stand up to the vital power of the Germanic tribes. Proud Rome was plundered several times. Germanic tribes such as the Vandals, Franks, Lombards, Saxons, Angles and Jutes redrawn the map of Europe with their swords.