Trivia Question: What Germanic peoples’ name is now a synonym for one who defaces things?
Answer: The Vandals
The Vandals were one of the tribes which sacked Rome. During the Renaissance, when Europeans studied the history of the Roman Empire, they began to despise the Vandals for disrupting such a powerful civilization. This is how the term vandalism came to be.
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