torical evidence, it was a deal between the Roman Empire and a number of extended German war bands, which were given lands within the empire in return for their military service. It was a good deal to both sides. Up to a certain point the Germans kept their side of the bargain. The Roman institutions, customs, laws, language and the culture in general, was carefully kept and nurtured. Even a hundred years after the accepted date of the end of the Western Roman Empire, in 476 AD, there were consuls and a senate in Rome. The Latin language was kept as an international language and as the language of the church. Even the name of the German Empire, which was set up in the 9th century , was the Holy Roman Empire. Of course, it was an arrangement that had to come to an end because of political, social and economic reasons. Eventually, there was a mixture between the Germans and the Gallo-Romans, Iberian-Romans, etc. The number of the Germans was negligible as compared to the number of the original Romans or the colonials, who spoke dialects of Latin, the result was that the languages of the western colonies became a mixture between that dialect of Latin, spoken there, and the language of the local foederati. The German tribes supplied the ruling elite to Western Europe. There were a number of German tribes, each of them left their names, and languages and customs on the territory they ruled. There is now a Catalonia in Spain, where the dominant German alliance was that between...
