/lit/ - Literature

>>15491038
No, they wanted land and territory to settle people on for the purposes of creating independent polities so they wouldn't fucking starve to death. The Germanics had slaves, and they had luxury goods, taking these from the Romans to redistribute amongst themselves was just icing on the cake. In particular, in Gaul, the Germanics really just wanted fucking land. The only time cities were actually sacked was when a particular king or chieftain wanted to hold that city for the purposes of extracting future tribute from it. The idea of a city set aflame and looted is a Romantic construction and is not reflective of reality (something BAP mentions in his book).

Read a fucking book. Pic related is a good one, it's up on libgen. tl;dr The Germans wanted land, not women and gold.

>>13737468
>I have no clue what I'm talking about, but I'll namedrop random terms in the hope that people who actually know what they're talking about won't call me on it
Typical pseud.

>>13737456
For those interested in this by the way, here's a good starting point.