Barbarian

I have decided to answer question one: “Would you have preferred to have lived among the ‘civilized’ Romans or the ‘barbarian’ Germans during the Golden Age of Rome (first two centuries C.E.)?” Put simply, I believe I would have preferred living with the Romans in the Golden Age of Rome. Considering I am a reproductive-age woman, neither the Romans nor the barbaric Germans had ideal circumstances for a person like myself; however, the urban-centric, permanent, military-protected Roman empire is…

The Mongols: How Barbaric Were The “Barbarians”? The Mongols were a group of small tribes from the steppes of Central Asia who conquered much of the known world. For centuries the Mongols were pastoralists and traveled from place to place with their animals. As time passed, the Mongols became united and conquered settled societies across much of Europe and Asia. The Mongols had both negative and positive impact on world history. However, the Mongols are deemed to be barbaric because they were…

is considerable argument as to whether the movement of barbarian groups into the Roman Empire should be considered invasions or migrations. Invasion encompasses both the idea of violence and the seizure of power by force while migration brings to mind a more peaceful assimilation of existing practices. The idea of invasion comes closer to describing the actual process of barbarian groups taking power. It captures Roman sentiment regard barbarian movements as well as the military struggle for…

“How Barbaric Were the Barbarians?” I believe that the Mongols were barbaric people during their conquer through Asia because of their killing methods and military tactics. Mongolians had also made some improvement to asia's economic growth. Some could say that because the Mongols were open to all religions within their people group they were not barbaric.But the Mongols were just not completely barbaric because they killed a lot of people for really no reason. The Mongolians had created many…

The Mongols: How barbaric were the barbarians 800 years ago the mongolians were plundering towns in one of the most sinister ways possible. These same Mongolians were perceived as some of the most barbaric people of that time. Destroying towns so atrocious they can never be resettled. It is troublesome to imagine people being terrified of peaceful conquerors. A significant factor would be how the mongolian empire declined there army. In the U.S some states consider adultery a 10 dollar fine…

The Mongols: How Barbaric Were the “ Barbarians”? Genghis Khan and the Mongols gave birth to an empire that would spread death and destruction everywhere they stepped, by means of conquest, the way they employed battle tactics and, their way of culture inside their empire. The Mongol empire ,brutally and mercilessly, conquered anyone who surrounded them as they pleased. In the chart titled Size of World Conquests we can see how much the Mongols expanded their empire. Genghis Khan and his…

The fall of the western Roman Empire was not caused by the barbarians’ attempts of invasion. Rome fell because a failing tax system and internal strife. The tax system was failing because the Roman Empire had overspent on military exercises and the coin had depreciated in value. As the coin depreciated, taxes were raised and the wealthy fled the cities in an attempt to avoid paying taxes. It is clear that the Roman government understood the threat of usurpers and the dangers that they posed to a…

Genghis Khan’s empire was bigger than the contiguous U.S. Before he became Genghis Khan, he was born Temujin. He was also born with a blood clot in his hand, which was an ancient sign of an acceptable leader. Many wonder just how barbaric were the ‘barbarians’? Although there is evidence to suggest that the Mongols had some non-barbaric traits, there is more evidence suggesting that the Mongols were indeed quite barbaric. One of the Mongols non-barbaric traits was their religious tolerance.…

DBQ: How Barbaric were the "Barbarians"? Although Mongols were strikingly ruthless through their military tactics (Doc. 2, 3,4,5), they were able to develop a rather sophisticated society (Doc. 7, 9, 10) and executed noteworthy and structured accomplishments (Doc. 1, 6, 8). As shown in documents 2, 3, 4, and 5, the Mongolians are quite infamous for their questionable harshness considering their military techniques. John of Plano Carpini addressed the army 's "stay together" strategy, which…

In Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign People at Home and Abroad, Matthew Frye Jacobson discusses America’s imperialism and immigration from 1876 until 1917. Jacobson analyzes the necessary dependence America has developed within the global consumer economy. He utilizes Roosevelt’s references to “barbarism” and “virtue” to examine American conceptions of people, citizenship, and national identity. The need for reliable foreign workers and markets transformed Americans into…