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Groups of barbarians were responsible for a long series of raids into Europe. Included in these were everyone from Atilla the Hun to Germanic tribes and the Vikings.

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What were people called in the middle ages who were not civilized?

They were called the barbarians.


Why were the barbarians important?

The barbarians were the ones who defeated Rome and started the middle ages, ( see also the renisannce).


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Why it called the Middle Ages?

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Why was the Middle Ages known as barbaric?

"Barbaric" is a term that has been romanticised to infer the primitive and brutal nature of life and warfare during the Middle Ages (ca. 5th to 15th centuries) The term can also relate the the loosely coined "Barbarians", which was given to tribes and people outside the Roman Empire prior to the onset of the Middle Ages. As the rapid expansion of the Roman Empire and the influx of foreigners (i.e. barbarians) into the Roman lands were responsible for the demise of the the Empire, it could be another reason why the Middle Ages are labelled as 'barbaric'. It is however, not appropriate to label the entire Middle Ages period as barbaric as there very many discoveries and occurrences during this time that were very civilised and eminent and far from the stereotypical and contemporary definition of barbaric.


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What are barbarians philistines and the populace according to Matthew Arnold?

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