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The social conflicts and the different attempts from usurpation cause that this period is characterized by its political instability.
The Germanic towns acted of sudden form on an Empire that already was in decomposition process.
In year 409, the invasions of suevos, vandals and alanos will cause in the serious valley of the Ebro disturbances that caused hunger and epidemics.
Cæsaraugusta was the operational base, of Geroncio, promoter of the entrance of the Germans in Hispania. Its support in the Barbarians who not only moved in the south of the Galia opened these the Peninsula, but that also explains why the Tarraconense province was seen it frees of the Germanic occupation.
The weakening of the Empire, as well as the arrival of these towns produced numerous rises and revolts that could not be controlled nor be eradicated by the Empire that began to die.

The germanización.
In order to solve this situation, the Romans will ask for aid to the visigodos, allied germanic town of the Empire
From the 441, the Valley of the Ebro was attacked by the bagaudas. These enslaved urban and citizen were ruined together with farmers uprooted as opposed to a political system that denied or the freedom to them, or the economic survival. After its defeat in Araciel, they repeated its offensive in the 449. The atmosphere of confusion created by this second brings forth bagáudico, was taken advantage of by the king suevo Requiario, that sacked to the city of Lérida and the region of Zaragoza.
In year 472, a Visigodo army crossed the Pyrenees and they seize of the valley of the Ebro without hardly resistance, after seizing of Pamplona, took next Cćsaraugusta and other cities, making sure the passage towards the interior in all its directions. Simultaneously, another expedition goda penetrated in the Pyrenean province by the Eastern one and occupied the urban centers of the coast.
After the revelion of Odoacro in Rome in year 476 (fallen of the Roman Empire of the West), the progressive establishments of Visigodos in the Ebro (from year 494) encouraged attempts of revolt between the hispanorromana aristocracy, harmed in their possessions.
Cæsaraugusta maintains its importance thanks, mainly, to the cultural activity fomented by the Church, with bishops like Braulio. That commitment with the church and loyalty with the power visigodo of the older cities of the Roman empire was shown in the election of Cæsaraugusta in years 592 and 691 for the celebration of ecclesiastical conciles.
Illustration of a currency of the time
Illustration of a currency of the time
During the first years of the Average Age, the city is going to undergo new attacks, now on the part of the francs, that surround it, although without success, in the 541.
In year 691 the only one meets in her I conciliate General of the Church celebrated outside the capital visigoda.
Between centuries V and VII the activity of the city of Cæsaraugusta will decay; comparativily with that it could have had during the Roman Empire, during this period of change will be finished restoring the cristinanismo, being episcopal Cæesaraugusta host during the centuries VI and VII.
At the beginning of the century VI they were made spectacles from circus to the Roman way, and the huge building of the theater as soon as it was used, but were the last resabios of a civilization that finished disintegrating itself.