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Around 1000 BC C., a group of uncivilized tribes, consisting of tall, fair-skinned and were hunting savages lived north and south of the entrance to the Baltic Sea region today are Denmark, southern Sweden, Norway and northern Germany. Nobody knows where they came from.
Their language was different from the languages \u200b\u200bspoken in the east and south why these tribes grouped together.
Many centuries later, the Romans found a tribe descended from those primitive tribes (and still quite primitive.) The members of that tribe called themselves a name that sounded like them Romans "Germania." Later, the Romans applied the name to all tribes who spoke the language of the Germani, so we called Germanic tribes.
Among their descendants today, count the Germans. But the Germans call themselves Deutsch (an old word which may mean "people") and his nation Deutschland .
Germanic tribes were among those that history books often called "barbaric."
For the civilized Greeks and Romans from the south, anyone who does not speak Greek or Latin was considered a barbarian, that is, emitting sounds seemed unintelligible, such as "bar-bar-bar." That word, therefore, was not necessarily an insulting nature. After all, the people of Syria, Babylon and Egypt also were barbarians in that sense, and they were as educated and wise like the Greeks and Romans, and they were for more time.
The Germans were barbarians in that sense, but they were uncivilized. In later centuries, helped to destroy parts of the Roman Empire, and their lack of appreciation of culture and knowledge gave the word "barbarian" its present meaning, uneducated or uncivilized person.
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