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The Vandal kingdom in North Africa and their 455 CE sack of Rome. Wyman reexamines the Vandals as sophisticated state-builders, not the mindless destroyers of popular myth.
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The English word vandalism perpetuates a 1,500-year-old piece of propaganda. The false narrative of mindless Vandal destruction spread so successfully that it became embedded in language itself.
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The word vandal as synonym for destruction is historical propaganda — the Vandals built a functioning Mediterranean kingdom
Wyman argues the Vandals' reputation for mindless destruction is Roman propaganda that has persisted for 1,500 years. The Vandal kingdom in North Africa was a sophisticated state that controlled Mediterranean trade for a century.Was this useful?