MIDDLE AGESVersión en línea The Visigothic Kingdom por Marta Hernández García 1 Visigoths were fair-skinned, tall and strong Yes No 2 They came central Asia Yes No 3 Alaric a Roman Emperor, allowed the Visigoths to enter and settle in Hispania Yes No 4 In AD 410 the Visigoth King Alaric invaded Rome Yes No 5 After that, as the Roman Empire was weak, the Visigoths and other Barbarian tribes (Suebi, Alans and Vandals), invaded Hispania Yes No 6 Then, the Visigoths conquered the other three tribes, so they didn´t control most of the Iberian Peninsula Yes No 7 The Visigoths couldn´t choose their kings Yes No 8 When a king was elected, he was killed after some years Yes No 9 So, during the 300 years that the Visigoths were in Spain, they had more than 30 Kings! Yes No 10 They established Cordoba as the Capital of Spain and copied some Roman traditions: costumes, laws, language... Yes No 11 The king Recaredo I converted the kingdom to Catholicism Yes No 12 The Visigothic society was divided into 2 parts: the king and peasants Yes No