How did the germanic tribes evolved into kingdoms?

How did the germanic tribes evolved into kingdoms?

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"Tribe" isn't really a very useful term when it comes to anthropology. What defines a Kingdom? A lot of those German tribes probably had Kings.

If you mean how did they develop into states then you'll have to look at each tribe individually

While living on the borders of the Roman Empire, they were influenced by its trade and political power.

Most tribes had Kings

How come the Kingdom of the Franks became France and not Gallia but the Kingdom of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths became Spain and Italy, not Visigothia and Ostrogothia??

Most of them just assumed the titles and privileges of the local Roman governors. Odoacer in Italy for example just told Constantinople that he would serve as a Roman viceroy while not actually committing anything material to help them.

Franks were called Franks and they had a king who was called King of the Franks, eventually their language latinized and they became franceis and their land france

>Kingdom of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths became Spain and Italy
They didn't though
Visigoths were just the visigoths until they weren't and then a little later you get Asturias that later splits to Leon, Castille and Galicia, that are later unified into just Castille that then later becomes Spain
Ostrogoths didn't call their kindom Italy afaik, it was a Carolingian invention or something

Visigothic Spain and Ostrogothic Italy didn't survive. France did.

kingdom is a very loose term, but it was land united by a King and subjects loyal to them, which is by all means a kingdom.

as for organization, there wasn't much. most people kept to the surviving Roman structures to keep producing a working way of life, which was at risk as the Aqueducts weren't maintained and people just started chipping off monuments for building material.

but the kingdoms were still just tribal warbands led by a warlord. Hence why Justinian's forces were very quick about conquering the Vandals and Ostrogoths, as they were unable to organize any real resistance to a professional army.

The germanics were mostly romanized at this point. They weren't as "civilized" as the roman patricians but they had knowledge of roman law, culture, and society. For instance the Burgundians had their own written legal codes (in latin), so it's not like they were tribes of cavemen in wolfpelts.

Now to answer your question. Most of the continental barbarian kingdoms were absorbed by the Franks and became the Holy Roman Empire after the crowning of Charlemagne. Over the next thousand years the HRE slowly broke apart into smaller sovereigns like France, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy. etc.

The two remaining Germanic kingdoms (visigoths and Vandals) were assraped by arabs and went down a different path.

Romans gave them their civilization.

I thought the Byzantines assraped the Vandals.

yeah you're right, my bad

The law of many Germanic tribes was based on Germanic traditions; I wouldn't call this romanized even if the laws were written in Latin.

It's a blending of German and Roman code. Either way, I was trying to dispel the myth of them being illiterate ape in contrast to the enlightened romans.

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Frank > Francus >Franceis > François > Français

Although in latin French and Franks are still called francus.

What's the fucking difference between slavs and balts, anyway?

They're different people

[spoiler]supposedly[/spoiler]

>It's a blending of German and Roman code.

Not always, the law of the Lombards (Edictum Rothardi) had barely any Roman influence.

The balts had been there forever but nobody gave a shit so they didn't appear in written records very much until the early middle ages.

The slavs were a subterranean troll like race of hominid that were led into europe from the steppes by their avar masters.

ok... but the Lex Burgundionum was, which is what I was referencing. I really don't care about these semantics but my autism won't let me stop responding to you.

>The balts had been there forever
Then why is this a thing?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto-Slavic_languages

probably because both groups were illiterate so no one knows what the fuck they were doing before they came into contact with the germans/byzantines.

There are two main factors the first is that the agricultural production in Germanic Europe increased dramatically . This allowed for the kings to obtain a lot more wealth and thus power. This over time led to a centralizing power in the figure of the king (warlord). The agricultural production also allowed for more specialist to arise within Germany and thus allowed for more artisans and warriors in Germany.
The other factor is having Rome next door provided many ambitious Germans with a lesson in proper training and how to run a military. Eventually some of these men became important and used the knowledge they learned from the Romans.