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Their nebulous origins take us to cold Scandinavia, on a journey of centuries. From there, for centuries too, they wandered through Europe, until they dangerously entered the limes of the Roman Empire. They achieved what seemed impossible: to sack the Eternal City. Romans in their own way, these sons of a furious god settled in the Iberian Peninsula, where they founded the most powerful kingdom of their time in the Christian West, the Kingdom of Toledo, with Rome in their memory and intention. Until ruin befell them in 711, largely due to their excessive fondness for the game of thrones. But not everything was loss and dissension, there was also continuity and recovery. The political and religious unity, the territorial unity of the peninsula, the legal equality and the cultural splendour forged by them over three centuries would be the nucleus of resistance, the seed of new kingdoms and the driving force of restoration. The Visigoths are the great protagonists of the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. His was, from beginning to end, an adventure against all odds. Without them, the history of Europe and, above all, that of Spain would be another story. Book by José Soto Chica: https://www.despertaferro-ediciones.c... José Soto Chica was a professional soldier and was assigned to the UN Peacekeeping Mission (UMPROFOR) in Bosnia Herzegovina. An accident with explosives cost him one leg and left him blind, which led him to redirect his life towards his true passion, history. Barely a year after the incident, he enrolled at the University of Granada, and is currently a doctor in medieval history and a contracted professor at the University of Granada and researcher at the Center for Byzantine, Neo-Greek and Cypriot Studies in Granada. #DiálogosAcademiaPlay http://academiaplay.es/ BUY OUR BOOK OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY https://www.amazon.es/historia-nunca-... BUY OUR SPANISH HISTORY BOOK http://tiny.cc/9lfxdz SUBSCRIBE http://bit.ly/2cqyJpp BECOME A MEMBER OF THE CHANNEL / @academiaplay (rewards and benefits) SPONSOR THE CHANNEL ON PATREON / academiaplay (rewards and benefits) BUY OUR EBOOK: https://goo.gl/gJf3TB Thanks to our Patreon benefactors: Eva L. García Franco, Gian Marco Farina, Pablo de Barreda and Pablo JP. FOLLOW US • Web: http://academiaplay.es/ • Facebook: / academiaplay • Twitter: / academiaplay • Instagram: / academiaplay • Email: [email protected] Music - Credits EPIDEMIC SOUND PURPLE PLANET: https://www.purple-planet.com KEVIN MACLEOD: https://incompetech.com/ PRESS PLAY AND MAKE YOUR LEARNING EXPERIENCE EPIC!