8 sentences with 'barbarians'
Example sentences and phrases with the word barbarians and other words derived from it.
• « The Assyrians adopted the horseback archery of the barbarians they fought from the north, which together with swords and short spears wielded on horseback made chariots permanently obsolete. »
• « The Romans regarded the Celts as barbarians, but they were thought to be barbarians who were at least capable of assimilating and adopting the 'true' civilisation of the Romans. »
• « A note of nomenclature: this section will refer to the groups responsible for the destruction of the Western empire as barbarians when referring to Roman perceptions of Germanic and Central Asian groups. The aim is not to vilify these groups, but to underline the degree to which the Romans were both contemptuous and, it turns out, vulnerable to them. »
• « The Romans had always despised the "barbarians" and believed that the lands the barbarians possessed (such as Scotland and Germania) were largely unsuitable for civilisation, as they were too cold and wet for the kind of Mediterranean agriculture the Romans were used to. »
• « The bottom line is that, from the late 4th century AD onwards, it seemed "business as usual" for most of the political and military elites of the Roman Empire. The frontiers were full of barbarians, but they had always been full of barbarians. Rome traded with them, recruited them as soldiers and fought or punished them as Roman leaders saw fit. No one in Rome seemed to think that this state of affairs would ever change. »
• « Not only was Constantinople impregnable to invaders, but its population of proud Romans repeatedly massacred barbarians trying to seize power, and deposed unpopular emperors who tried to rule as military tyrants rather than true emperors possessing sufficient Roman "virtue". »
• « Even the poor lived better in Constantinople than the relatively well-off of Western Europe, much of whom were barbarians by comparison. »