Theodoric the great biography for 5th graders

by Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester

The "fall of the Roman Empire" is one of the great benchmarks of history in modern thought.

Yet it was not until the Renaissance that the populace of Europe realized that it had fallen; to those living in the Middle Ages, Charlemagne had been as much a Roman Emperor as had Augustus. Charlemagne, of course, is well-known.

Less famous, but in many ways more compelling as a transitional figure, is Theodoric the Great, one of the last monarchs to rule a unified Italy until the nineteenth century.

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Theodoric's people, the Ostrogoths, had originally came from the area now known as the Ukraine. Inroads by the Huns had gradually pushed them east starting in the fourth century, until they reached central Europe, where they were subjugated by the Huns.

The death of the great Hunnic leader Atilla in 451, however, caused the Hunnic confederation to break down and allowed the Ostrogoths to rule themselves once more. Three brother