Sanjek Barbarians

The barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongolians are portrayed throughout history as bloodthirsty savages that only care about killing people and pillaging villages and towns. The barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongols often don’t receive credit for the ways that they positively impacted ancient civilizations. Even though the barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongolians impacted ancient civilizations in positive ways they also did some things that impacted ancient civilizations in negative ways.

How do you interpret the word “Barbarian”? The word barbarian was used to describe the ruthless Mongols during the thirteenth century and is meant to be a demeaning term. The Mongols were a small tribe from Central Asia who expanded their territory by war. The Mongols were very barbaric people. They showed barbarian traits by the way they lived, how they fought, and the rules they had.

Back when the European explorers discovered people who did not look like them it started racial conflicts. They questioned if the natives where human and did not treat them as equals. In the nineteenth century Max Webber disregarded the biological explanations for racial conflict and emphasized the social and political factors which engendered such conflicts. Since Webber did this it began changing perspective on race. In the text is states that in the contemporary social science literature race is assumed to be a variable which it shaped by broader societal force. In this time race is not seen as difference in skin color but difference in status. Which made society believe one race is better than the others. Over the years the meaning of race has changed tremendously. For example, the existence of water is not based on collective acceptance, or

Differences amongst people has been in existence for a very long time. The time of segregation of black people in America is proof of this differences. During this time black people have been regarded as second class civilans. The laws that were created during this time had the purpose of restricting black people from achieve anything in life and these laws were called Jim Crow Laws. Those laws were mainly used in the southern and border states of the United States. But segregation did not only happen in the US, it has occurred in countries all over the world, places like South Africa. In South Africa, there was a system of legislation, called apartheid. This system, like the Jim Crow Laws, made racial

Historically, racism has existed through out human history from 500- 1000 years. Racism is considered to be directed on the part of the Westerners towards the non westerners, such as the Asians, Africans and others. Racism however, is defined as hatred imposed from one person to another. Racism can also be that one particularly race is more superior than the other, or less human, due to the state of origin, colour of skin, language, ethnicity, gender, religious, and different biological characteristics (ADL archive). The essay will address the impact of racism to individuals and our community, and also further will discuss the nature of racism.

Much of the Roman frontier followed the natural boundaries of the Rhine and Danube rivers across Europe. On the other side of these rivers were territories the Romans never brought under their control and tribal peoples such as the Goths, Franks, Vandals, and Huns. By the middle of the fourth century CE, many Roman governors had allowed these so-called “barbarians” to settle on the Roman side of the rivers, and Roman generals had even recruited many of the men as soldiers in their armies. However, the barbarians never assimilated fully into Roman culture. By the end of the century they started to wage a series of ferocious campaigns

Race and ethnicity cannot always be defined. As children, we grow up and we learn to associate different contexts with different meanings and even different cultures. My paper is based on the origin of race and how ultimately it can be used

To begin, the social construction of race began to develop very early in America’s history. Throughout history, with the help of science, government, and cultures, the idea of race has formed into what it is today. Beginning in the 1500 's, European colonists arrived in North America, where Native Americans had already settled (“RACE,” n.d.). The native people and European colonists had many disputes until, by the 1600 's, Africans and Europeans were indentured servants for the Europeans. Once the 1670 's came round, African Americans became viewed as inferior and slowly became permanent slaves in the colonies without opportunity for freedom. This trend continued for hundreds of year, and discrimination along with prejudice were prevalent, but the term race had not yet developed.

Before this historical time period, cultures and its respective human constituents lived in isolated bubbles, mating and reproducing only with each other. Thus, there was no need to address racial differences since essentially everybody appear the same. But, after these physical land barriers were bypassed, it was necessary to address the apparent physical and relevant differences that existed between the various countries and geographic locations. In doing so, the differences, as seen through the diversity of the people, needed to be understood and given meaning in order to distinguish and classify. Although this need to distinguish and classify may have a multitude of causes, I personally believe that the driving force was the human tendency to create divisions. Humans tend to create divisions on the basis of establishing power and dominance, in order to enact a social hierarchy. Humans in the past, and until present day, have always created hierarchical structures on the basis of some term that creates divisions amongst themselves (i.e.: race, gender, religion, sexuality). It just so happens that race (via skin tone, hair texture, etc.) is now the most prominent basis in which humans can outwardly categorize other human beings. This arises from the fact that human beings are so diverse in nature, and race is the easiest form in which to classify people via phenotypic attributes. Furthermore, humans continue to maintain an us versus them mentality. This most directly relates to one of the most fundamental basis of race-thinking which is essentially a power struggle. Given the current context of the world, diversity and human contact is nearly impossible to escape. Subsequently, humans submit to the desire of stratification in order to make sense of this apparent human diversity. As a result, race-thinking

From the year 476AD, after the last Emperor Romulus Augustulus (as displayed in source 2) of the Western Roman Empire was overthrown by European barbarians, the Roman World was greatly affected, as it was now Medieval Rome. The reason of the collapse was due to civil wars breaking out among the greedy rich competing to become emperor. Many people were killed fighting against each other with various weapons, one of them being the bullets depicted in source 3. Eventually the population began to decline and the taxes increase. Various barbarian clans (as listed in source 4) were conquering many cities and the political, financial and social structure problems led to the complete collapse after a long complicated process as represented all together

By 1650, thirty years after the pilgrims arrived in America, they seemed to have no regard for the natives and thought they were unfriendly and in-fact lesser people than they themselves who were always looking to shoot arrows at the pilgrims.

The shift of the meaning of race and how it is socially constructed did not

Many ideas change with time. Including, how races interact with each other. Race relations changed between the 20th and 21st century. A couple of prime examples of change are The Scottsboro Trials, Emmett Till Murder Trial, Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, and The George Zimmerman Trial. Now as the thought of how race interactions happened have changed. The world today and it events prior to it have shaped how people interact. In history, we have always had a problem with race. Race may be a small thing to think of ,but it always can be found right in front of our eyes.

The term “race” has been defined differently throughout history. Race has been not only defined as skin color but also defined as social class, national origin, religion, and language have all been used in history to separate different groups in society. Leibniz in the 17th century defined race religiously, dividing groups in two groups Christian v. Non-Christian. It wasn’t until 1735 when Linnaeus distinguished groups by skin color and geographic origin. He had four separate groups: Europeaus (white), Africanus (black), Americanus (red), and Asiatic (yellow) (Uppsala Universitet,

The concept of race and the meanings associated with the term have continuously changed and evolved throughout history. Many negative connotations have been associated with the word race and these are evident as one reflects on the historical origins of the term. Commonly the term race is closely connected to the notion of ‘racism.’ Racism is a specific form of prejudice which focuses on physical variations between people. It describes the ideological belief that a person, or groups of people can be classified into ‘races’ which can be ranked in terms of superiority and inferiority (Spoonley, 1988:4). Giddens defines racism as “the attribution of characteristics of superiority or inferiority to a population sharing certain physically inherited characteristics” (1997:584). This supports the idea that racism is a manner of prejudice or animosity against people who have different physical characteristics. It is in virtue of circumstances such as these that Anthropologists find it necessary to make a distinction between the concepts of race and ethnicity.