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was the result of a movement of tribes,
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of ethnic groups who were outside the Mediterranean region,
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say at the beginning of this period and
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say in 1600, but who pressed into it.
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Usually, the picture is that they are coming from the north
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or the northeast and pressing down into it.
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I have to believe that whoever came up with that theory for the first time
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was aided in coming to it
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by thinking about the end of the Roman Empire,
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when something precisely like that did happen.
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These Germanic and other tribes,
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who were largely located north and northeast of Europe,