What is the historical significance of Germanic tribes?

Question

What is the historical significance of Germanic tribes?

Answer 1

The Gauls, who were Celts, were subdued by the Romans and were Roman subjects for about 500 years; but the Germanic tribes, living farther east, overran most of Western Europe as the Empire was crumbling.  The Vandals and Goths, who sacked Rome in the 400s, were Germans, as were the Franks, who gave their name to France, and the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who invaded Britain about forty years after the Roman withdrawal.  Elements of the Germanic culture described by Tacitus in A. D. 98 can be seen in the cultures of most Western European nations for well over 1000 years.

Answer 2

the germanic tribes were the tribes that lived in northern europe in the region known as gaul the ancient romans were often on crusades fighting against the germanic tribes who helped to bring the down fall of the roman empire