His first work in Rome was an account of the Jewish War, addressed to certain " upper barbarians " – usually thought to be the Jewish community in Mesopotamia — in his " paternal tongue " ( War I. 3 ), arguably the Western Aramaic language.

His series often challenge popular views of history: for example, Terry Jones ' Medieval Lives ( 2004 ) ( for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ") argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought, and Terry Jones ' Barbarians ( 2006 ) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, while criticizing the Romans as the true " barbarians " who exploited and destroyed higher civilizations.

Anti-Manchu revolutionaries like Chen Tianhua ( 1875 – 1905 ), Zou Rong ( 1885 – 1905 ), and Zhang Binglin ( 1868 – 1936 ) tried to foster the racial consciousness they thought was missing from their compatriots, and thus depicted the Manchus as racially inferior barbarians who were unfit to rule over Han Chinese.

They have not only turned away from those who from earliest time have been thought of as divine among all Greeks and barbarians ... but by emperors, law-givers and philosophers — all of a given mind.

Romans defeated the barbarians on sea at first, then a battle in Thrace was won by Gallienus's army and the Emperor kept pursuing the invaders.

* Law of Valentinian I and Valens bans marriages between Romans and barbarians under penalty of death.

The ancient Greeks and Romans seemed to have considered butter a food fit more for the northern barbarians.

These Saracens located in the northern Hejaz appear as people with a certain military ability who are opponents of the Roman Empire and who were characterized by the Romans as barbarians.

In the late 3rd century, to defend against attack from barbarians, the Romans built around the city an earth bank and a wall with seven gates, which enclosed an area of.

Although the classical Scythians may have largely disappeared by the 1st century BC, Eastern Romans continued to speak conventionally of " Scythians " to designate Germanic tribes and confederations or mounted Eurasian nomadic barbarians in general: in 448 AD two mounted " Scythians " led the emissary Priscus to Attila's encampment in Pannonia.

The defeat at Adrianople changed the character of the Empire in that it signified that the barbarians, fighting for or against the Romans, had become powerful adversaries.

Like most borderland tribes, they were looked upon as barbarians by the Romans even though they had been Roman subjects for more than five centuries.

The Romans indiscriminately regarded the various Germanic tribes, the settled Gauls, and the raiding Huns as barbarians.

Aëtius turned then to the powerful local magnate Avitus for help, who was not only able to convince Theodoric to join with the Romans, but also a number of other wavering " barbarians " resident in Gaul.

In the 5th century, control of Valentia passed from the Romans to the Alans and other barbarians: in 413, the Goths under Ataulf besieged and captured the usurper Jovinus at Valentia on behalf of the emperor Honorius.

Now was such as, to put it briefly, had never before been seen in the land of the Romans is, Greeks, be he either of the barbarians or of the Greeks ( for he was a marvel for the eyes to behold, and his reputation was terrifying ).

Thracians were seen as " barbarians " by other peoples, namely the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Their dress identified them as Romans, according to Paul, and none of the local barbarians dared to touch them.

The Romans simply believed that the Brigantes were ' barbarians ', but peace was eventually established and the troops were moved to the north.

Of course, this could also be considered a stereotype of the Romans used for identifying barbarians.

The Romans were able to raise and maintain huge armies on the field, while the " barbarians " were unable to match them.

The Romans were not precise in their ethnography of northern barbarians: by " Germanic " Caesar may simply have meant " originating east of the Rhine " ( the homeland of the Germani cisrhenani ) with no distinction of language intended.

There were two factions in Roma Victor, the Romans and the barbarians.

A religious polemic of about this time complains bitterly of the oppression and extortion suffered by all but the richest Romans, many of whom wished to flee to the Bagaudae or even to foul-smelling barbarians.

Although these men differ in customs and language from those with whom they have taken refuge, and are unaccustomed too, if I may say so, to the nauseous odor of the bodies and clothing of the barbarians, yet they prefer the strange life they find there to the injustice rife among the Romans.

The Romans were without adequate forces ; the barbarians inflicted haphazard extortion, murder, kidnap, and plunder on the Romans and on each other.

In this instance Theodore argued against the exchange, as it would require that Christians be cast to barbarians, while Nikephoros urged the emperor to accept the treaty.

As entry into the Western Empire's military was a frequently-used option for " losers of struggles for leadership among the barbarians ", and Ricimer's family would have thus entered the service of Rome .< ref > Sister: Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths, ( 1979 ) 1988: 33, following Martindale, Prosopography, 2: 524f ; daughter: Wolfram 1988: 202.

:( 3 ) One of these, Thais by name, herself also drunken, declared that the king would win most favour among all the Greeks, if he should order the palace of the Persians to be set on fire ; that this was expected by those whose cities the barbarians had destroyed.

" Palmerston went on to claim that if the motion of censure was carried it would signal that the House had voted to " abandon a large community of British subjects at the extreme end of the globe to a set of barbarians-a set of kidnapping, murdering, poisoning barbarians.

A theoretical synthesis of " Western knowledge " and " Eastern morality " would later be accomplished by Sakuma Shōzan and Yokoi Shōnan, in view of " controlling the barbarians with their own methods ".

Treves was almost destroyed by the barbarians ; yet the first petition of its few surviving nobles was that the emperor would re-establish the circus games as a remedy for the ruined city ( vi.

12 )-especially among Christians, whose sin, since they alone had the Scriptures, was worse than that of barbarians, even if equally wicked, would be ( v. 2 ).

He replied that Gage's troops would " disgrace even barbarians ," and he accused Gage of " a most unprovoked attack upon the lives and the property of his Majesty's subjects.

Dong Xi entered Sun Ce's service around the time Sun was pacifying northern Yang Province ( or Jiangdong ), but he would distinguish himself later when he was ordered to quell the rapacious Shanyue barbarians.

They said they would bring law and order and the salvation of Russia, fighting against traitors, barbarians, and murderers.

It was believed that the intelligence and wisdom of the Chinese civilization was superior to those of Western " barbarians ", and thus China would first learn from foreigners, then equal them, and finally surpass them.

Choe Ik-hyeon, who had helped with the impeachment of Heungseon Daewongun, sided with the isolationists, saying that the Japanese were just like the “ Western barbarians ” who would spread subversive notions like Catholicism ( which had been a major issue during Heungseon Daewongun's reign that ended in massive persecution ).

Locals informed him that the barbarians would sacrifice 50 men and throw their heads into the river to appease the river spirit and allow them to cross ; Zhuge Liang, however, did not want to cause any more bloodshed, and instead ordered buns shaped roughly like human heads — round with a flat base — to be made and then thrown into the river.

Also, people who lived near the Roman frontiers would begin to look to the barbarians for protection after the Roman armies departed.

They were in fact seen as a threat to European society ( which they were not considered part of ), and were characterized as eastern barbarians who would eventually overrun the Western nations in order to destroy them.

A barbarian lord informed him, in olden days, the barbarians would sacrifice 50 men and throw their heads into the river to appease the river spirit and allow them to cross ; Zhuge Liang, however, did not want to cause any more bloodshed, and instead killed the cows and horses the army brought along, and filled their meat into buns shaped roughly like human heads-round with a flat base-to be made and then thrown into the river.

The original concept of the character was a two-handed humanoid character Rokuro, a member of " a race of demon warriors called Rokuro-kubi ( demons of the dark )" wrongly " reputed as savage barbarians ", who would join the tournament " to restore the pride and respect of his race.

After several minutes of Grenier calling America barbarians and saying that France would not allow the US to be the police force of the world, the sound of glass shattering suddenly filled the arena when Steve Austin cleared the ring of La Résistance and said some unflattering remarks about the French nation.

It is after escaping with the barbarians that the friends realize Goldmoon's desire of traveling to Haven, where she hoped the Seekers, priests who were in search of the old gods but degenerated into a political movement, would be able to teach her about the healing staff.

It seems he hit on the tactic of using all white horses in battle when he learned the barbarians he was then fighting against considered the animals sacred and would run from them instead of fighting.

This creates a very different sort of fantasy world, with the " barbarians " as the just and noble ( see Noble Savage ), while the kings and " civilized " men and women who would be the heroes of traditional medieval fantasy become ruthless and corrupt.

However, leaving behind the Romano-Dacian peasantry would have defeated the main purpose of the evacuation, which was to repopulate the Roman provinces south of the Danube, whose inhabitants had been decimated by plague and barbarians invasions, and to bring back into cultivation the abandoned land, or terrae desertae, in those provinces.

Northern Tribes are far from the barbarians they are initially perceived, though some tribes would most definitely qualify under the descriptor of “ savages ” or “ barbarians ,” but when they build their settlements, they are as neatly laid out as any Valdemaran village.