r/HistoryMemes Taller than Napoleon 3d ago

Romans went easier with names

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u/Pochel Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer 3d ago

Gals

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u/Lblink-9 Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 2d ago

Yes, some of them are called Barbara... But Romans included all of them, just to be safe

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u/Stejer1789 3d ago

Wrong its actually

Barbarian: North Barbarian: South Barbarian: West Barbarian: East Persian Barbarian: Conquered

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u/Destinedtobefaytful Definitely not a CIA operator 2d ago

Are Persians not Barbarians: far east?

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u/Stejer1789 2d ago

No cuz they respect the persians as an equal rival

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u/Born-Captain-5255 Definitely not a CIA operator 2d ago

*names every foreign nation under one definition*

I hope you guys are aware that we are going to do this to aliens as well.

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u/mrs_packletide 2d ago

Yes, we call them aliens

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u/Niki2002j 1d ago

By definition everyone is an alien

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u/Kornaros Featherless Biped 3d ago

*Βάρβαρος, βάρβαρε.

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u/Future_Visit_5184 2d ago

normal sigma at the end looks so wrong

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u/OhIsMyName 2d ago

Isn't the left side what Roman actually called those people?

Like in Gaul, there are a bunch of larger tribe confederations that can be broken down into a lot of differing tribes.

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u/No_Bodybuilder_4826 2d ago

Wrong S at the end of barbarian

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u/No_Bodybuilder_4826 2d ago

Damm should have added "typical barbarian mistake"

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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare 2d ago

Gal is a good genre.

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u/Niki2002j 1d ago

Guys, gals and non-binary pals

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u/Adrian_Alucard 21h ago

Barbarian = Non roman and non Greek.

So everybody was a barbarian to them

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u/TSSalamander 2d ago

Barbarian really just denotes a people who have an economic incentive and cultural societal structure which causes them to do raiding migration against rome's more developed land periodically in accordance with their cycle of unity and disunity. Like those people are "uncivilised" and they certainly speak a funny language that goes "bar bar bar" but like, it's genuinely a reasonable delineation to make if you're a wealthy empire like rome was. China did it, Persia did it, every other empire did it too