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>>96458564
I don't think that I've seen a "!Cossacks" in an rpg fantasy setting outside of Kislev in Warhammer or in Rifts, so this is actually an unfilled niche. This is a very specific definition of the word "barbarian," however; Robert E. Howard really cornered the definition of barbarian with Conan.

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>it meant non-Greek-speaker in the Hellenic period, and non Latin- and/or Greek- speaker in the Roman period
true
>Greek was still the educated/civilized language of most of the Roman Empire
true
>white" people, which is a notion that wouldn't be invented until long after the Roman Empire died.
Tacitus seems to disagree with you in his "Germania." Herodotus in "Histories" and Pericles via Thuycidides in "The Peloponnesian" (and Thuycidides himself, later) also directly contradict you. See also "Europa." There has always been a concept of ethnogenesis and identity in every civilization.

t. do not try to fool classics majors