Vandals-rise+Essay

====The Vandals were and East Germanic tribe whose impact on the world in the fifth century is still remembered today with our use of the word, “vandalism.” The present day word is vandalism, but what is its history, to come to the meaning of senseless destruction. In the following short essay, you will learn about how the legacy of the Vandals, and how it came to be such a negative word in out society today. The vandals left behind nothing but a bad legacy, and if we are not careful then we could be put in the same situation as them, leaving future societies to think that we were reckless people.==== ====The vandals have a bad reputation because they pretty much traveled around and destroyed other peoples land, and took their belongings. In 455 the Vandals went to Rome and took pretty much everything that they could take. The raid lasted a total of two weeks. In the end Rome had barely any of their belongings, people were killed houses were burned etc. the Vandals traveled all over Europe and some parts of Northern Africa to battle, and take what they could.==== ====Although the Vandals did take a lot of things, making you believe that they had an easy life. They had to travel around the world, and go in challenging battles. In 406 when they advanced from Pannonia traveling west along the Danube, but when the made it to Rhine, the encounters a resistance from the Franks. Twenty thousand Vandals, which include their leader, Godigisel died in the battle. Later, with the help of the Alans, they manage to victorious in this battle.==== ====Another lesson that can be taken from the vandals was that they left no artifacts for future societies to study and remember them by, all they left was a bad reputation and a few carved out large estates. Our legacy can be similar because some like to destroy and deface artwork, like the Vandals. But it will also be much different because we are leaving a positive legacy as well; we have made many works of art, music, literature and architecture, also many advances in mathematics, scientific and medical technologies. We may have more of a positive legacy in some aspects, but in other aspects, we could end up just as bad.==== ====All-in-all there are many different lessons that can be learned from the Vandals, some good and some bad. The vandals are mainly only remembered for a very negative and harsh word in our society today. The lesson that we can take out of that is that, if we want future societies to give us a good reputation, then we have to put a stop to many of the bad things going on in our society. This includes, global warming, poverty, world hunger, vandalism, etc. or we could have bad reputation as well. Although, we are doing more to have a better reputation of the vandals====