What are the Barbarian tribes?

Question

I know there are the Huns, Visigoths, Anglo-Saxons, Franks, and Mongols...........Am I missing some?

Answer 1

Celts, Vikings (norsemen), Vandals, Burgundians, Normans, Ostrogoths, Slavs, Alanic, Illyrians, the Veneti, and some called the Merovingians barbarians (especially the Roman aristocrats of the time). when you think about it, the term barbarian is very subjective..........

Answer 2

The barbarians who invaded the Roman Empire were the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Franks, Vandals, Huns, and in 568, the Lombards.. What's interesting is that all of these peoples, except the Franks and the Huns, were converted to Christianity before they crossed the Rhine and Danube. The problem was that they were converted to Arian Christianity, which was declared a heresy at the Council of Nicea in 323 AD. This meant that the barbarian peoples were regarded as enemies by the Roman population, and they never established permanent states. The Franks were converted to what we would call "Catholic" Christianity when Clovis (Louis I) was baptized in 511. The Huns were never converted. The issue of conversion is important, because the Vandals (North Africa) and the Visigoths (Spain), and the Ostrogoths and Lombards (Italy) were eventually wiped out. The Latin Christian Franks founded France, Germany, and the "Low-Countries"

Answer 3

The word "Barbarian" was used by either Greeks or Romans (I don't remember which, but someone classical) to describe the people of northern Europe. It was basically a mickey-taking of the way they spoke, which to them just sounded like garbled "bar-bar" nonsense.

So, Mongols and Huns wouldn't count, as they're Asian and not northern European. I'm including non-Germanic tribes here, which may be wrong. If so, just knock those ones out.

Basically all the northern European peoples you can think of... Angles and Saxons (they were seperate tribes), Jutes (from Jutland.. who also settled in England along with the Angles and Saxons, although this wasn't until hundreds of years after we started being called "barbarians", and people seem to have forgotten about them entirely anyway) Goths; Visigoths (western Goths) and Ostrogoths (eastern Goths). Magyars perhaps? Dacians, Slavs, umm... I'm running out of ideas... Vandals (who are now the Spanish I believe. I think the famous "El Cid" was a Vandal), Franks, Danes, Fins? Although the Finnic people are related to Magyars aren't they? There's some kind of Finnish-Hungarian connection anyway.

That'll do for now.

Answer 4

The origin of the BARBARIAN TRIBES originated with the ancient Greeks. The term BARBARIAN referred to the manner of speach the way the manner of speach of the foriegners sounded to the Greeks. Hence- BARBARians. The Greeks regarded all foriegners who did not speak Greek(almost without exception) as barbarians. Of couse the Persians were considered barbarians. However later only people who were very much less advanced than the classical civilizations, usually northern and southern tribes were considered barbarians. Basically people who were exclusively generally grouped into tribes.
The barbarian tribes at the time of the Greeks were , in the north, THRACIANS, ILLYRIANS, SCYTHIANS, GAULS. In the east, more SCYTHIANS, SODGIANS, certain tribes of BACTRIANS and MASSEGAE(to the north of the oxus river).
The barbarian tribes in the time of the Romans were:
In the north, BATAVIANS, SUEBI, HERULI , CHATTI, MARCOMONI, QUADI, TEUTONI, ALMANI, CIMBRI, FRANKS, SAXONS(GERMANIC) and SAMATIANS, SCYTHIANS, VISIGOTHS, OSTROGOTHS, LOMBARDS, BURGUNDIANS VANDALS. And from the east the HUNS (Hsuing Nu) to the chinese. To the south , the TANGRED, LYBIANS, NUBIANS, BEDOUINS.
These people were at a tribal level of development and were outside the empire. When a people were conquered(eg HELVITI, RIMNI, NERVII, PARSII, VENITII, AVERNI,ICENI, BRIGANTE. MOESI, NORCI, RHAETI, PANNOEMI, DACIANS and ARABS of Arabia Petrea and Arabia Felixia, they then became civilized and ceased to be barbarians-being incorportated into the empire and being romanised. The Chinese had their own barbarians. HUNS, MERKITS, KITAI KARI, KIN, KHITTANS, MANCHURIANS, YESI(ghenghis khan's tribe), TARTARS, UGBEKS and TIBETANS.
One must, of course, ask the question why aren't the Romans themselves on the Greek list of barbarians. After all, they were not a Greek city and didn't speak Greek. A situation that should of made them barbarians in Greek eyes. The answer of course is that when the Roman Republic was founded in 509 B.C. a delegation from Athens arrived, saw it's constitution, declared it a Greek city with full civilzed status and gave it it's blessing. Also the Chinese who called everyone else around barbarians, when hearing about the Roman Empire acknowledge it equal and civilized. The only time this happened in ancient Chinese history.

It was the mass of tribes which came down at the decline and fall of the Roman Empire and eventually superceded the empire. Although to call these people barbarians in the modern sense is not justified. By that time many had converted to christianity and were far more civilized and behaved than most of the peoples of the ancient world. It was mainly the Vandals that gave these people a bad name. There are a lot more but I hope this helps.

Answer 5

How can you call Christianity barbaric when it encourages to do the following: - (Matthew 7:12) “All things, therefore, that YOU want men to do to YOU, YOU also must likewise do to them; this, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean. - (Matthew 22:39-40) . . .The second, like it, is this, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets.. . . - (Matthew 5:44-45) . . .However, I say to YOU: Continue to love YOUR enemies and to pray for those persecuting YOU; 45 that YOU may prove yourselves sons of YOUR Father who is in the heavens, since he makes his sun rise upon wicked people and good and makes it rain upon righteous people and unrighteous. You're clearly misled by "Babylon the Great", who represents the false religion. Do not look at their actions, but look at the actions of the true Christians: (John 13:35) By this all will know that YOU are my disciples, if YOU have love among yourselves.”

Answer 6

There are dozens and dozens of Barbaric tribes.
Barbaric tribes were baptized that way by higher culture civilizations like the Greek and Romans that heard these people talk in their language that sounded to them as bar, bar, bar . So they called them Barbarians.

They were hundreds of tribes all over the world.

There were even tribes like the Parisi around Paris, Belgae around Belgium, Helvi around modern Switzerland and so on.
"Long bards" because they had "long spears"
Saxons had Axes.
Vandals were real vandals.

In Julius Cesar´s book " The Conquest of Gaul" you can find a pretty long list of European barbaric tribes he found in 50 BC. when he invaded those territories to make a name for himself.

Answer 7

There are many "barbarians" in history depending on whom you are talking about. The Greeks considered any non-Greek a barbarian. The Chinese built the famous wall to keep out "barbarians." My high school girlfriend's dad thought I was a barbarian. It's all perspective.

Answer 8

Vandals and Lombards should be in there, as well as the regular Goths (Are they the same as the Visigoths? I can't remember)

Answer 9

I was told my liniage traces furthest back to northern barbarian heritage. my brother did a human genomedna test on us and that s what came up. does any one know what precisely that would mean? directly? I want to reaserch them further. would that just mean norsemen or is it more specific?