In the third century, the Goths, from the shores of the Baltic, came rushing over the wide arena, with the howling of wolves and their gnashing of teeth.

They trampled down all opposition, with their war knives drove out the Romans, crossed the Black Sea in their rude vessels, and spread conflagration and death throughout the most flourishing cities and villages of Bythinia, Gallacia and Cappadocia.
The famous temple of Diana at Ephesus, these barbarians committed to the flames.

They overran all Greece and took Athens by storm.

As they were about to destroy the precious libraries of Athens, one of their chieftains said, "Let us leave to the Greeks their books, that they, in reading them may forget the arts of war; and that we thus may more easily be able to hold them in subjection." These Goths established an empire, extending from the Black Sea to the Baltic, and which embraced nearly all of what is now European Russia.
Towards the close of the fourth century, another of these appalling waves of barbaric inundation rolled over northern Europe.

The Huns, emerging from the northern frontiers of China, traversed the immense intervening deserts, and swept over European Russia, spreading everywhere flames and desolation.