Excerpt from Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. 4 of 9 Peninsular Europe became the spoil of' the invaders. The immense populations of bar barism, long heaped up on the further banks of the Rhine and the Danube, suddenly dif fused themselves as a spreading flood over all the better parts of the vest. It may prove of interest to take at least a cursory survey of the barbarians, as it respects their ethnology, institutions, and general history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.