This Byzantine Emperor ruled from 527-565, and reconquered much of the old western Empire.

This Emperor came to the throne in 284 CE. His unique reforms and reign are a traditional beginning point for Late Antiquity, and also the transition between Rome’s principate and its dominate.

The Huns seem to have undertaken a major westward migration toward eastern and central Europe during which decade?

This Frankish ruler, who died in 511, was the founder of the Merovingian Dynasty.

The Thervingi and Greuthungi, two bands of northern barbarians, crossed south over the Danube in the summer of 376, looking for a place to stay. These two bands were part of which barbarian migratory group?

Septimius Severus’ campaign in Caledonia took place:

The Vandals crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to invade North Africa in:

The Year of the Six Emperors – the one that began Rome’s Crisis of the Third Century, was:

This Roman-Visigothic general led two invasions of the Italian Peninsula in the first decade of the 400s, sacking Rome successfully in 410.

The Byzantines and Sasanians fought a long and mutually destructive war, which was part of the reason Muslim armies were able to take over Sasanian territories. When did this war take place?

The emphasis of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, an academic movement that began in the 19th century, was:

The last Roman Emperor to rule over both the eastern and western halves of the empire was Theodosius I. He died in:

These two Roman Emperors were killed in battle in the year 251 and 378, respectively:

This barbarian-Roman military leader was responsible for deposing the final western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476, after which he ruled the Italian Peninsula as his own principality for a time.

The Byzantine Emperor Zeno, fearing that Odoacer sought to expand his territories far beyond Italy, convinced this Roman-Ostrogothic ruler to ouster Odoacer from the Italian peninsula, which the ruler in question had done by the year 493. Who was the Ostrogoth?