Barbarians

thumb|237px|19th-century portrayal of the Huns as barbarians

period in European history with large migration of peoples, from the 4th to the 6th centuries

The name Pelasgians (, ) was used by Classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergence of the Greeks. In general, "Pelasgian" has come to mean more broadly all the indigenous inhabitants of the Aegean Sea region and their cultures, and British historian Peter Green comments on it as "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably indigenous people in the Greek world".

linguistic deviation

Japanese national slogan

Five ancient non-Han ethnic groups during the Eastern Han Dynasty (4th-5th centuries) waged war against Western Jin, establisehd sixteen kingdoms

thumb|right|400px|Chichimeca peoples in Central Mexico at the start of the [[Chichimeca War ]] thumb|Aridoamerica|300x300px Chichimeca () is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajío region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the same meaning as the Roman term "barbarian" that described Germanic tribes. The name, with its pejorative sense, was adopted by the Spanish Empire. "For the Spanish, the Chichimecas were a wild, nomadic people who lived north of the Valley of Mexico. They had no fixed dwelling p

series of medieval kingdoms founded and dominated by northern European tribes (primarily Germanic) after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476

derogatory Chinese name for various peoples bordering ancient China, namely, the Dongyi 東夷 "Eastern Barbarians", Nanman 南蠻 "Southern Barbarians", Xirong 西戎 "Western Barbarians", and Beidi 北狄 "Northern Barbarians"

ancient distinction between Chinese people and foreigners

1863 Japanese imperial edict

Theory on propaganda