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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 4475996, member: 97383&quot;]Tejas, You raise a good point <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. We mustn&#039;t confuse the two words <b>barbarian </b>(noun) and <b>barbarous </b>(adjective). The Greeks &amp; Romans labeled anyone who couldn&#039;t speak their language a <b>barbarian</b>. On the other hand <b>barbarous </b>implies cruel, brutal, &amp; uncivilized behavior. The Goths, Vandals, &amp; other barbarian civilizations were forced westward from their homeland by the Huns, who were indeed barbarous. The Goths, who were led by Thodemir &amp; Theodoric, were agrarian people who wanted nothing more than a stable homeland &amp; to live in peace with the Romans. Instead they were treated like animals by Romans, &amp; forced to fight for what they wanted. After Theodoric gained control of Italy, he treated the Romans living there with respect, even adopting Christianity as his own religion. He in turn was accepted by the Romans, who had no objection to his rule. His mausoleum in Ravenna still stands as a proud landmark after all these centuries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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