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This four-part documentary first broadcast on BBC 2 offers a different perspective on a community in which we have referred to as barbarians. Presented by Terry Jones, Barbarians will challenge your beliefs surrounding this society that the Roman and Roman Catholic’s have historically labelled as savages.

The first part of the series, “The Primitive Celts” questions Rome’s version of history as we know it. The stereotypical view of the Celtic society is that they are barbaric and this is exactly what Terry Jones sets out to argue. He offers many examples proving this society was actually advanced compared to Rome. This was a notion in which the Roman general Julius Ceaser would make sure would change.

Jones takes an approach with this documentary that I found particularly interesting. He manages to persuade my thinking with his compelling facts and interviews. Barbarians argues Roman civilization was not destroyed by Attila the Hun and Geiseric, the two most feared “Barbarians” of our history. But instead he offers the notion that it was the loss of the North African tax base that caused the Roman empire to fall.

What are your thoughts? Were the Romans the real savages? The real barbarians? In reality, was it the Barbarians who lived in fear of the Romans?

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