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Identifier: ancientworldfrom00west (find matches)
Title: The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 A. D
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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heodoric patrician, and gave the desired commission. Odovaker made a gallant resistance for four years. Theodo-ric beat him at Verona in a great battle, and then besiegedhim in the fortress of Ravenna. Odovaker finally surrenderedon terms, but soon after was murdered at a banquet, on somesuspicion, by Theodorics own hand, — the one sad blot on thegreat Goths fame. 731. Theodoric the Civilizer, 493-526 A.D. — Then begana Gothic kingdom in Italy, like the Teutonic states in Spainand Burgundy, and one that deserved a better fate than wasto befall it. The Ostrogoths had come in as a nation, withwomen and children. They took a third of the lands of Italy,but all the rights of the Roman population were respectedscrupulously. Goth and Roman lived in harmony side by side,each under his own law. Cities were rebuilt and new ones 1 For this Theodoric, see Davis Readings, II, 127. He must not be confusedwith Theodoric the West Goth, § 722r Students will enjoy Hodgkins Th^<odoric the Goth.
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§ 731) ITALY 587 founded, witli a new period of architectural splendor. Theland was subdivided into small estates. Agriculture revived,and Italy once oiore raised her own food. Theodorics long Church of San Vitale at Ravenna (time of Theodoric). reign was peaceful, prosperous, and happy, and the peninsulabegan to recover her former greatness. 732. The Empire of Theodoric extended, indeed, far beyondItaly. He organized an alliance reaching over all the TeutoniG 588 FIFTH AND SIXTH CENTURIES (§732 states of the West. His wife was a Frankish princess; theBurgundian and Visigothic kings were his sons-in-law; hissister was married to the king of the Vandals. All thesepeoples recognized a certain preeminence in Theodoric theGreat. It seemed as though he were about to reunite the Westinto a great Teutonic empire, and, by three centuries, anticipateCharles the Great (§§ 785 ff.). 733. Weak Points.-^—Aiter all, however, the Goths werestrangers, ruling a Roman population vastly larger tha

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