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savage and barbarian
This term was used in conjunction with " savages ", which was either seen as a brutal barbarian, or alternatively, as " noble savage ".
The word Viking was introduced into Modern English during the 18th-century Viking revival, at which point it acquired romanticised heroic overtones of " barbarian warrior " or noble savage.
He summarizes, " the word barbarian embodies a complex European cultural construct, a generic pejorative term for a ' powerful foreigner with uncouth, uncivilized, nonurban culture who was militarily skilled and somewhat heroic, but inclines to violence and cruelty ' – yet not a ' savage ' or a ' wild man '.
While most languages only have a few words meaning " barbarian " ( for example, English barbarian and savage ), Chinese has many historical " barbarian " exonyms.
" The usual Standard Chinese translation of English barbarian is yemanren (), which Beckwith claims, " actually means ' wild man, savage '.
* man 蛮 " barbarians of the South ; barbarian, savage ," " Southern barbarian "
He divided and defined the stages by technological inventions, such as use of fire, bow, pottery in the savage era ; domestication of animals, agriculture, and metalworking in the barbarian era ; and development of the alphabet and writing in the civilization era.
Baboon s, dog s, and " barbarian | savage s " provided his chief evidence for human evolution.
Morgan's concept of three major stages of social evolution ( savagery, barbarism, and civilization ) can be divided by technological milestones, such as fire, the bow, and pottery in the savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, and metalworking in the barbarian era and the alphabet and writing in the civilization era.
Lewis H. Morgan, an anthropologist whose ideas have had much impact on sociology, in his 1877 classic Ancient Societies differentiated between three eras: savagery, barbarism and civilization, which are divided by technological inventions, like fire, bow, pottery in the savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, metalworking in the barbarian era and alphabet and writing in the civilization era.
Morgan's concept of three major stages of social evolution ( savagery, barbarism, and civilization ) can be divided by technological milestones, like fire, the bow, and pottery in the savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, and metalworking in the barbarian era and the alphabet and writing in the civilization era.
Lewis H. Morgan, an anthropologist whose ideas have had much impact on sociology, in his 1877 classic " Ancient Societies " differentiated between three eras: savagery, barbarism and civilisation, which are divided by technological inventions, like fire, bow, pottery in savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, metalworking in barbarian era and alphabet and writing in civilisation era.
It was originally an offensive epithet given to some Mbayá tribes of Paraguay by the Guarani, meaning " savage " or " barbarian ", which later got extended to the whole group.

savage and hordes
In the words of one historian: " The savage hordes of popular lore seldom materialized on African battlefields.
Benjamin F. Stickney wrote, soon after the outrage: " There cannot be a doubt that the generous Ohioans will turn out en masse to protect their northern border and restrain the savage barbarity of the hordes of the north.

savage and red
There is, however, only one known account from a native Briton who lived at this time in the mid 5th Century A. D., ( Gildas ), and his description is of a forced takeover: For the fire ... spread from sea to sea, fed by the hands of our foes in the east, and did not cease, until, destroying the neighbouring towns and lands, it reached the other side of the island, and dipped its red and savage tongue in the western ocean.
Gildas describes how their raids took them " sea to sea, heaped up by the eastern band of impious men ; and as it devastated all the neighbouring cities and lands, did not cease after it had been kindled, until it burnt nearly the whole surface of the island, and licked the western ocean with its red and savage tongue " ( chapter 24 ).
John William Mackail concurs with Casaubon, writing that " this is true of a great part of his work, and would perhaps be true of it all but for the savage indignation which kindles his verse, not into the flame of poetry, but to a dull red heat.
At his head sat a woman, at his feet another, on each side, sitting upon a mat upon the ground, were ranged his chief men on each side the fire, ten in a rank, and behind them as many young women, each a great chain of white beads over their shoulders, their heads painted in red, and with such a grave a majestical countenance as drove me into admiration to see such state in a naked savage.

savage and Russian
Although the revolt was put down by the Scottish general Patrick Gordon ( he had entered Russian service under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in 1661 ) even before the Tsar's return to Russia, Peter nonetheless cut short his embassy and returned to finally crush the streltsy with savage reprisals, including public executions and torture.
" Nikolai also insulted the Muslim subjects of Yaqub Beg in Kashgar, claiming that they " constantly cursed their government and expressed their desire to become Russian subjects ... The savage Asiatic clearly understands Russian power is the guarantee for prosperity.
The Russian and French armies met in February 1807 at the savage and indecisive Battle of Eylau, which left behind between 30, 000 – 50, 000 casualties.
Russian General Panin's savage reprisals, after the capture of Penza, completed their discomfiture.

savage and Communism
The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.

savage and descended
The battle subsequently descended into " bitter, savage fighting " over the following days, predominantly in the form of " deadly bombing duels " with grenades.

savage and on
It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.
`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.
Cady snapped the Venetian blind shut and slammed himself down before the typewriter, rolled in a fresh sheet, and gave his letter the same savage attention he bestowed on a salesman who needed to have the bucket taken off his thick head.
Ubu Rois savage humor and monstrous absurdity, unlike anything thus far performed in French theater, seemed unlikely to ever actually be performed on stage.
He wrote: " It is a matter of great regret that the throwing of bombs by zeppelins on London was denounced as a most savage act and the bombardment of places of worship and sacred spots was considered a most abominable operation.
The Papal State was itself far from completely pacified ; a savage and devastating war went on from 1361 to 1367 between Rome and Velletri while in 1366-7 there was a general rebellion in Campagna.
Rousseau held that this third savage stage of human societal development was an optimum, between the extreme of the state of brute animals and animal-like " ape-men " on the one hand, and the extreme of decadent civilized life on the other.
The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".
Idle himself was said to have been uncomfortable with the character ; " It's essentially a pretty savage attack on rabid Zionism, suggesting it's rather akin to Nazism, which is a bit strong to take, but certainly a point of view ".
He summarily dismissed St Helena Regiment and, following orders from London, embarked on a savage drive to cut administrative costs, dismissing most officers previously in the Company employ.
* Joseph Stalin launches a savage attack on Soviet Jews, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist.
Thus, in the beginning of the 18th century, a French travel writer, the Baron de Lahontan, who had actually lived among the Huron Indians, put potentially dangerously radical Deist and egalitarian arguments in the mouth of a Canadian Indian, Adario, who was perhaps the most striking and significant figure of the " good " ( or " noble ") savage, as we understand it now, to make his appearance on the historical stage: Adario sings the praises of Natural Religion.
The noble savage sets a king to reign over him, to whom he submits his life and limbs without a murmur or question and whose whole life is passed chin deep in a lake of blood ; but who, after killing incessantly, is in his turn killed by his relations and friends the moment a grey hair appears on his head.
" writes Ellingson, One who turns for help to Neale Fairchild's 1928 study, a compendium of citations from romantic writings on the " savage " may be surprised to find book The Noble Savage almost completely lacking in references to its nominal subject.
This book, in which a group of school boys stranded on a desert island " revert " to savage behavior, was a staple of high school and college required reading lists during the Cold War.
In his earliest works, writing under such pseudonyms as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, and George Savage Fitz-Boodle, he tended towards the savage in his attacks on high society, military prowess, the institution of marriage, and hypocrisy.
Following this victory, savage retribution was exacted on the rebels.
Journalist John Nichols opined in The Nation that the Koch brothers have provided funding to ALEC for " decades " in a " savage assault on democracy ".
Dönitz was savage in his relentless attacks against Raeder for his " policy of bloated surface vessels " and for not spending enough money on building U-boats in the 1930s, a policy that Dönitz claimed had cost him victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.
" Moreover ," Head goes on to state in Rivers's obituary notice, " he was able to explode to old fallacy that the ' noble savage ' was endowed with powers of vision far exceeding that of civilised natives.
Girolamo Cardano printed a savage attack on Seneca in 1562, in Basel.
He reveled in bloodshed and was overwhelmingly savage on the battlefield, but more significantly to a Roman audience he was a contemptor divum, a " despiser of the gods.

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