and Burgundians—cross the border into the Western Roman Empire to settle. At times they put themselves at the service of Rome. Attila, king of the Huns from 445, invades Gaul. At the head of a ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

To remain in Gaul meant forfeiting his power to his enemies ... Under this brilliant, implacable leader, the new Roman Empire buried the old, aristocratic infighting to become a global power ...