Every barbarian language had an equivalent term, and all of them were based on a derivative of that language's word for fury. |
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Yeah right, dream on, when in history did the people of an imperial nation stop their government's barbarian behavior. |
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A barbarian on cavalry tried to stab him with a spear but with no avail, Stephanus grabbed the spear dismounting the rider. |
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The startled barbarian grappled reflexively, neglecting the weapons that hung at his waist. |
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Whereas before he had counted twenty-six followers behind the armoured barbarian, now he saw only twelve. |
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Babur may have been descended from brutal conquerors, but he was not a barbarian bent on loot and plunder. |
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Britain is an island, homogenous and unchanging, pluckily defending its heritage from the barbarian hordes who batter its shores. |
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For two thousand years barbarian races swept across Central Asia raping, pillaging and ravaging as they went. |
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While barbarian invaders overran the Western empire, the Byzantine emperors always hoped to defeat them and reunite the empire. |
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If the enemy was this barbarian from the backwoods, well and good! It would be foolish to take offence at this old bushwhacker. |
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It was a peaceful town till about a year ago when some viperous barbarian started slaughtering folks. |
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The single-player option begins with a mission that calls on the player to command three units to help to repel a barbarian attack near Rome. |
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The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed. |
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Suddenly, all the networks want drama again and the barbarian tide of reality tele-vision is in retreat. |
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Democratic processes can do nothing to assuage the homicidal needs of barbarian madmen. |
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Roy is a true original, a barbarian living in a modern world, and relentlessly smashing everything in his path. |
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But to the mindset of today's European leaders and commentators, America is a barbarian nation intent on world domination. |
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A barbarian dictator who stares down the US can lead a region to war, terrorism, and oppression on a global scale. |
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And if we do not do something, these barbarian rodents are bound to take over our lives! |
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But that attaches all of the barbarian interlude to ancient history, which is counter to our usual notions. |
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Europe took refuge in a feudal system in the face of increasing barbarian invasion. |
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And maybe that date will be viewed in future centuries as the beginning of the great barbarian invasions. |
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Jordanes, who wrote in Constantinople in the 550s, even described the coup of 476 as if it had been a fully-fledged barbarian invasion. |
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Positive or negative, all these barbarian invasions are there, and we must live with this. |
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Be that as it may, after the barbarian invasion there was no authority to re-introduce gold coinage that would circulate. |
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In the West, however, Diocletian's system worked for a time, but then fell apart in the face of the barbarian invasions. |
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If this is a clash of civilizations, then one of our soldiers has just been murdered by our barbarian enemies. |
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This promising line of thought takes us back to the barbarian invasions that overwhelmed Rome in the 5th century. |
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What distinguishes civilized man from a barbarian must be acquired by every individual anew. |
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All think of him as a cold-hearted, arrogant barbarian, and this story will be the first true view of the hidden soul he carries. |
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The use to which the wealth is put, and Jahangir's almost flippant attitude toward his riches, activates the notion of the ignorant barbarian. |
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Moreover, some of the Greek cities thought they could use the barbarian, or the threat of him, against their enemies. |
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Raised on the hinge of the Greek and the barbarian world, he had the amused tolerance of a man who can see and has lived with both sides. |
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It was predicated on the idea of an inherent superiority of the Greek over the barbarian. |
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That is, it is Moira that determines who shall be slave or master, peasant or warrior, citizen or non-citizen, Greek or barbarian. |
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Folding down the corners of pages, scribbling in margins and breaking the spines of paperbacks are signs of a barbarian. |
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Then he tells her of his wild tales of the savage barbarian Conan, and she sees the fire in his eyes. |
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The Kalachakra tantra talks about a time when the three lalos, the barbarian kings, will rule the earth. |
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They assumed the identities of barbarian lordlings, and united the Republic's enemies against them. |
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Even Ostrogoth and Lombard kings, their barbarian ways tamed by the people they were supposed to have conquered, built houses in Bellagio. |
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However, the mighty barbarian is deemed unworthy to enter Paradise by the Ancestors and is reincarnated in order to redeem himself. |
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Despite being written for a barbarian reed pipe, Ts'ai Yen's songs can still be sung on Chinese instruments. |
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And these particular rooms were aired only for a barbarian envoy or a member of the merchant class. |
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When he went against the king's orders and refused to slay a band of barbarian captives, he was promptly put under arrest. |
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On all sides, ignoring him, barbarian mercenaries brandished their javelins, bows, pikes, two-edged swords. |
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Although the Frankish kingdom went into decline, the death of Charlemagne was only one cause of the decline. We must consider the renewed invasions from barbarian tribes. |
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Our political leaders need to demand that their colleague step down immediately, not aid and abet the barbarian criminal. |
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I wrote my first book listening to the soundtrack to the movie Conan the barbarian on a loop. |
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The idea is, hold back the barbarian hordes, and excise the cancerous growth that is sucking the lifeblood from our economy. |
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Their high king, Vortigern, finding himself beset on all sides by barbarian invaders, hired Anglo-Saxon and Jutish mercenaries from Denmark and north Germany. |
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It had this kick-ass barbarian guy on it, and he meant business. |
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We want our primal fill like the Romans forcing some standard-stealing barbarian on a flaying parade. |
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If any one shall have killed a free Frank, or a barbarian living under the Salic law, and it have been proved on him, he shall be sentenced to 8000 denars. |
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It also provided protection from marauding northern barbarian tribes. |
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Their background was probably very varied, some perhaps landowners, others military men, Roman or barbarian, who had been invited to take control or seized power. |
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The ancient Romans divided people between civilised and barbarian. |
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These remarks record the preeminent level of struggle against the loss of civilization brought on by the invasion of the barbarian hordes of Western Europe. |
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Manchester United tours are not just a series of football matches but are events which resemble a call for a religious crusade or a barbarian invasion. |
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Torsion catapults continued to be built into the time of the barbarian invasions when they were superseded by a traction artillery piece, the trebuchet. |
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Arles, once the capital of Roman Gaul, declined after the barbarian invasions and experienced a political and economic revival in the 12 th century. |
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The early medieval chapter adopts the by-now-commonplace position that the history of Europe after the fall of Rome and the barbarian invasions was one of progress. |
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In their wild and alien nature, these animals were the embodiment of all that was uncivilized and, therefore, of barbarian irrationality and evil. |
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The supervisory board of the Bulgarian National Bank was a straight jacket for the elite, which drained the financial system in a pagan and barbarian way. |
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Terminal illness makes a fantastic, fun-filled irreverent backdrop for black comedy, exploding with comments on humankind's barbarian invasion of the planet. |
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I am shocked and dismayed to learn that our neighbors to the north have government officials who play politics just like ours do down here in the barbarian south. |
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So, unrepaired and unfrequented, town centers began to look dilapidated, long before any unwelcome barbarian tongues were heard in their near empty streets. |
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Under the Caesars of the late Republic and throughout the history of the Empire, combined with the forces of individualism and barbarian invasion, the Empire collapsed. |
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No one, after all, wanted to get too friendly with a gigantic barbarian who might suddenly take it into his head to chop one into teeny, tiny pieces for no particular reason. |
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Unlike Britain, Rome succumbed not to the rise of a new empire, but to internal decay and a death of a thousand cuts from various barbarian groups. |
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The words reflect the belief that the world was divided into a central and superior Chinese civilisation, and a peripheral, inferior barbarian outland. |
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Almost by definition they were barbarian outlanders, foreigners alienated from their natal condition by cultural difference as well as, usually, by physical force. |
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In the east and north are the humanoid hordes and the barbarian nomads. |
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Arbogastes, of barbarian Frankish origins and thus constitutionally excluded from holding imperial power, had no choice but to rebel and appoint his own nominee emperor. |
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Now they took responsibility for provisioning the cities with food and maintaining the city walls to protect the population from the increasingly frequent barbarian raids. |
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Barbarian Invasions has won plaudits and critical acclaim in Canada and elsewhere. |
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The leaders of the pack of hyenas were the first to strike the unsuspecting Barbarian. |
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With a thin smile, Asana hurled Darren backward with a flick of his finger, making the Barbarian fall heavily on the platform. |
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Nevertheless, with its campy sword and sorcery adventures, The Barbarian was right at home at the fringe. |
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But it could also be popular with the barbarian prisoners, who were often delighted by the prospect of a land grant within the empire. |
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Taking advantage of Roman military disarray, a vast number of barbarian peoples overran much of the empire. |
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The Franks, in contrast, were barely any different from their barbarian Germanic ancestors. |
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From about the year 780 onwards, Europe saw the last of the barbarian invasions and became more socially and politically organized. |
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Warfare of varying size however was a distinctive feature of barbarian culture. |
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In the late 4th century, barbarian invasions, economic decline and military coups loosened the Empire's hold on Britain. |
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Diocletian expelled the Persians who plundered Syria and conquered some barbarian tribes with Maximian. |
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He defeated barbarian tribes in the Marcomannic Wars as well as the Parthian Empire. |
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This was the first time that a barbarian kingdom had played a key role in the imperial succession. |
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Nevertheless, effective imperial protection from barbarian ravages was eagerly sought. |
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The business of subduing barbarian warbands also demanded substantial gifts of precious metal. |
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Hopefully your government realizes this is not some kind of barbarian attitude and squeeze play. |
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Theodosius was unable to recruit enough Roman troops, relying on barbarian warbands without Roman military discipline or loyalty. |
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In 376 the East faced an enormous barbarian influx across the Danube, mostly Goths who were refugees from the Huns. |
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The Alamannic king Chrocus, a barbarian taken into service under Constantius, then proclaimed Constantine as Augustus. |
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The beginning of the 5th century was the start of a tortuous period of barbarian invasions for Milan. |
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In 476, Odoacer became the first barbarian King of Italy, initiating a new era. |
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Military success or defeat and political legitimacy were interrelated in barbarian society. |
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When subsidies to the Goths were stopped, the Goths organized and in 250 joined a major barbarian invasion led by the Germanic king, Kniva. |
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King Stephen converted the nomadic barbarian tribes of the Hungarians and induced them to sedentary culture. |
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A barbarian is a human who is perceived to be either uncivilized or primitive. |
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines five meanings of the noun barbarian, including an obsolete Barbary usage. |
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The consumption of raw food was regarded as an infallible sign of savagery that affected the physiological state of the barbarian. |
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Some Warring States period texts record a belief that the respective natures of the Chinese and the barbarian were incompatible. |
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Italians in the Renaissance often called anyone who lived outside of their country a barbarian. |
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The Hongwu emperor issued many edicts forbidding Mongol practices and proclaiming his intention to purify China of barbarian influence. |
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They held off attacks from the north and preserved many aspects of Chinese civilization, while northern barbarian regimes began to sinify. |
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The barbarian invaders formed their own new kingdoms in the remains of the Western Roman Empire. |
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He sees in Conan a red-handed, rough-footed barbarian who came out of the north to plunder a civilized land. |
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By this means, Hanno's corps crossed the river and immediately proceeded south to the barbarian location. |
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What Ghaznavi had considered animal intuition or some sixth sense was merely the razor-edged faculties and savage wit of the barbarian. |
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How could it succumb, at long last, to a barbarian usurper at the head of an Italian army composed largely of other barbarians? |
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Intense diplomatic activity followed, as the Romans tried to win over various barbarian tribes in preparation for a crossing of the Danube. |
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Genseric is often regarded by historians as the most able barbarian leader of the Migration Period. |
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Not only had huge numbers of Romans lost their lives but Italy itself was now exposed to invasion from barbarian hordes. |
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In 107 BC, shortly after being elected as Consul, Marius, fearing barbarian invasion, saw the dire need for an increase in troop numbers. |
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With the brief exception of the Mongol invasions, major barbarian incursions ceased. |
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From about the year 1000 onwards, Western Europe saw the last of the barbarian invasions and became more politically organized. |
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It appears that Orosius had to leave Braga as a result of the barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire. |
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While the barbarian invasions of the 4th century and later mostly occurred by land, some notable examples of naval conflicts are known. |
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There were growing barbarian attacks, but these were focused on vulnerable rural settlements rather than towns. |
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The nature of the barbarian takeover of former Roman provinces varied from region to region. |
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During the middle of the 3rd century, the Roman Empire was convulsed by barbarian invasions, rebellions and new imperial pretenders. |
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Propped up with imperial support and gifts, the armies of allied barbarian chieftains served as buffers against other, hostile, barbarian groups. |
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For example, the Roman Empire played a vital role in building up barbarian groups along its frontier. |
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The scholar Guy Halsall has seen the barbarian movement as the result of the fall of the Roman Empire, not its cause. |
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Analysis of barbarian identity and how it was created and expressed during the Barbarian Invasions has elicited discussion among scholars. |
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Various barbarian tribes went from raiding and pillaging the island to invading and settling. |
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Meanwhile, there were barbarian raids on Britain in 408, but these seem to have been defeated. |
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My orcish barbarian who found a nice eternium 2hs in SMC was killed by a bulette in the second level of the unremarkable dungeon. |
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The earliest assessments of David I portray him as a pious king, a reformer and a civilising agent in a barbarian nation. |
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At the same time Carausius successfully defended his island kingdom against barbarian invasions. |
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Conan the Barbarian wants to talk about Baudelaire, Kurosawa, his hopes and dreams. |
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The dominion of the Western Roman Empire was gradually eroded by abuses of power, civil wars, barbarian migrations and invasions, military reforms and economic depression. |
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As the Roman occupation of Britain was coming to an end, Constantine III withdrew the remains of the army, in reaction to the barbarian invasion of Europe. |
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Once again, Roman discipline overcame a larger barbarian force. |
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After the invasion of Gaul by several barbarian tribes in 406, contact was broken between Britain and the Western Roman central government in Ravenna. |
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Throughout the game you can enlist the aid of heroes from races old and new, including the barbarian Norn, the magical Asura and even a few surprises. |
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Only the barbarian might eventually change by adopting Chinese ways. |
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Barbarian invasions brought most of the Iberian peninsula under Visigothic rule by the early 5th century. |
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In the late 3rd century, barbarian raids devastated Normandy. |
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The dominion of Theodoric was not a barbarian but a civilized power. |
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More baggage animals were lost in the confusion of the Barbarian attack, and they rolled off of the precipices to their deaths. |
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In military matters, the Roman army was reorganised to consist of mobile field units and garrison soldiers capable of countering internal threats and barbarian invasions. |
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The place of this region is called the ethea of animals and refers to the place outside the domain of Greek culture, to the place of the barbarian who resists domestication. |
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Towards the end of the 4th century Britain came under increasing pressure from barbarian attacks, and there were not enough troops to mount an effective defence. |
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For the next 600 years, while Imperial possessions in Europe were subjected to barbarian invasions, Anatolia would be the center of the Hellenic world. |
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Decreased resources, increasing political chaos and civil war eventually left the Western Empire vulnerable to attack and takeover by neighboring barbarian peoples. |
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It was only on the fringes of the Empire, in newly gained provinces or defensive missions against barbarian invasion, did the navy still engage in actual warfare. |
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Compared with other barbarian tribes, the Goths had the longest time of contact with Roman civilization, from migration in 376 to trade interactions years beforehand. |
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The Kingdom of the Alans was among the first Barbarian kingdoms to be founded. |
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From the 4th century, the Empire's Balkan territories, including Greece, suffered from the dislocation of the Barbarian Invasions. |
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In western Europe, Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the barbarian Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths, Lombards and Vandals. |
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Barbarian migration stabilized in much of Europe, although Northern Europe was greatly affected by the Viking expansion. |
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Europe during the Early Middle Ages was characterized by depopulation, deurbanization, and barbarian invasion, all of which had begun in Late Antiquity. |
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According to this argument, internal turmoil in the Roman Empire and the need to withdraw troops to fight off barbarian armies led Rome to abandon Britain. |
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Historically, the term barbarian has seen widespread use, in English. |
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They figure prominently in the Shang oracle inscriptions, and the dynasty that came to an end only in 1912 was, from the Chinese point of view, barbarian. |
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It was believed that the barbarian could be culturally assimilated. |
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Featuring the likes of King Haku, Barbarian and Gangrel, it promises to be a show no wrestling fan should miss. |
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Barbarian pressure on the frontiers hastened internal dissolution. |
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In 367, there was a joint invasion of Britain by several Barbarian tribes. |
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In place of the fallen Western Rome, Barbarian kingdoms arose in 5th and 6th centuries and came to decisively shape European culture of the upcoming Middle Ages. |
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This crisis, sometimes called the Barbarian Conspiracy or the Great Conspiracy, was settled by Count Theodosius with a string of military and civil reforms. |
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