ABSTRACT
W E have seen that the Romano-Germanic States, born of the disintegration of the Roman world in the West, had shown themselves short-lived. Neither the Vandal State in Africa, nor the Ostrogothic State in Italy could defend themselves against the operations of the Roman Empire in the West, although these were carried on with very mediocre resources. In Spain the Visigothic State was able finally to get free of Byzantium, but it dragged out a wretched and uneasy existence which came to an abrupt end in 711, owing to the catastrophe of the Moslem invasion.
