the Vandals sacked Rome in 455

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.... but they let the Romans alive and the buildings intact.
They only took away treasures.
So they were milder and fairer than the Vikings.

But they became the key word for vandalism.

 

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we should say vikingism instead of vandalism

 

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those Vandals later vanished from earth

but vandalism survived