<span>The western German tribes consisted of the Marcomanni, Alamanni, Franks, Angles, and Saxons, while the Eastern tribes north of the Danube consisted of the Vandals, Gepids, Ostrogoths, and Visigoths. The Alans, Burgundians, and Lombards are less easy to define.</span>
Women were looked at as a cause of sin, even though the doctrine said they were viewed as equal. Many went into monasteries to prove their worth, devotion, virtue and to ensure the survival of their families and their souls. They were treated as were treated as inferior to men.
<span>A tsar was removed from the people and was rarely seen.
The tsar of the early 1900s was an absolute monarch with much control and answered little to the people. Though there were attempts at reform and the creation of a representative body called the Duma, the Tsar, especially Nicholas II, was known to shut it down or event attempted to remove it. Nicholas II would be the last tsar of Russia being forced to abdicate, step down, his throne in 1917. </span>
