Question

One siege carried out by these people was defeated when their enemy managed to set up floating mills to provide bread to the besieged city. (15[1]-5[1])A king of these people was compared (15[1])to Croesus of Lydia by Procopius in his recounting of their overtures to the Sassanids. The head of these people’s final leader (15[1])Teia was paraded around as a trophy following their defeat at Mons Lactarius. (15[1])These people were initially led by (*) Vitiges (10[1]-5[3])(“vi-tti-GEEZ”) in a war triggered (-5[1])by the murder (10[1])of their queen Amalasuntha (-5[1])whilst bathing. (10[2])A king of these people (10[1])named Totila was mortally wounded after charging his enemy’s (10[1])crescent formation in the Battle of Taginae during a campaign to subjugate them under (-5[2])Narses. Belisarius briefly recaptured Rome from these (-5[1])people’s (-5[1])kingdom, which was established by Theodoric the Great. (10[3])For 10 points, name these Germanic people (10[1])who controlled much of Italy after splitting from the Visigoths. (10[1]) (10[7]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Ostrogoths [prompt on Goths; reject “Visigoths”]
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