The barbarians were a people from northern and central Europe. Barbarians in the 5th century invaded the falling Roman Empire and gradually carved it up the between their territory. 'The barbarians' did not intend to destroy the Roman Empire, but wanted to have part of its wealth but due to the declining of the Roman Empire, it soon broke down completely.
The main straightforward theory for the collapse of Western Roman Empire is pinned on a string of military war losses the Empire sustained against its outside forces. Roman Empire had tangled with a number of Germanic tribes for centuries. By the 300s the barbarian people like the Goths encroached beyond the borders of this Empire. The Romans fell as a result of the Germanic uprising in the