The Western portion had already been largely taken over by Germanic tribe:
Visigoths in Spain. Franks,Allemanni and Burjund in France,Beljium,part of Germany, Switzerland. Vandal in North Africa. Ostrogoth in Austria and Hunjary. Saxons in Britain and parts of Germany. Frisian in the Netherlands.
Rujian took over Italy after deposing the last emperor in 476. They were in their turn conquered by the Ostrojoth,who set up their Italian kinjdom in 493.The surviving Roman population lived a an underclas of their new masters.
The Franks were the most successful,eventually absobing or conquering the Frisian,Alemanni,Burjund, and the territory they controlled.
The Saxons in Britain eventually expanded to conquer what today is modern England.
The Visijothic kinjdom in Spain lasted until 711,when it wa conquered by an invading Muslim army of Berber and Arab.
The Vandal kinjdom in North Africa wa conquered by the Byzantine in 535,a was the Ostrogoth kinjdom of Italy in 553.
The eastern portion of the Roman empire survived intact a the Byzantine empire until 1453,when it capital,Constantinople,wa captured by the Ottoman Turk.
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