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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 11 Dec 2016

    The Battersea Shield, found in the Thames, 350-50 BC. The barbarians were more sophisticated than you'd guess from reading Roman authors.pic.twitter.com/trNT15qRcX

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      1. Firas Durri‏ @firasd 11 Dec 2016
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        Herodotus: founder of Fake News?

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      1. Ízaro  🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧‏ @askewmind 11 Dec 2016
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        .@paulg @CGMundell Barbarians (also known as The Other) are always put down, dismissed and demonised, in Roman times and in modern times…

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      1. Eugene Gulyi‏ @thejackgoode 11 Dec 2016
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        I was very surprised that for the most part of history European nations were culturally very much behind Mesopotamia and China

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      1. Dennis Bacchus‏ @DennisBacchus 11 Dec 2016
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        parallels there with "deplorables" being dems barbarians and journos writing biased and misunderstood opinions about their out-group

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      1. Ted Neward‏ @tedneward 11 Dec 2016
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        Actually it's Western historians who've really emphasized that bias. Back in college my Medieval Studies prof pointed this out.

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      1. Vish Tipirneni‏ @VishTipirneni 11 Dec 2016
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        historians have forever maligned Germanic groups calling them Barbarians,Vandals,..while conveniently overlooking Roman barbarity.

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      1. Ahmed Dharani‏ @AppleMapsFan 11 Dec 2016
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        "Until the lions have their own historians,tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters" Same goes for #Celtics & #Romans, No 🤔

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      1. Dillon Chen‏ @dillchen 11 Dec 2016
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        never underestimate disruption 🙈

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      1. Ted Herman‏ @tedherman 11 Dec 2016
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        Kenneth Clark ranked Celtic ornamentation more sophisticated and refined than many things in subsequent centuries.

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      1. Hasan M‏ @Hasmanean 11 Dec 2016
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        this may have been made for them by one of their trading partners. But they at least deserve points for carrying such bling.

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      1. David Shipley‏ @DavidCShipley 11 Dec 2016
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        @leashless Oh! I was chatting to an archaeologist at a party about this object (& iron age britons rituals in general). Fascinating.

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      1. excess code detector‏ @kuzrob 11 Dec 2016
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        didnt help them much thou ...

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      1. Donny Spray On Skin‏ @OverExposureNow 11 Dec 2016
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        History is written by the contemporaneous victors.

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      1. Ben Chege Ngumi‏ @masukuma 11 Dec 2016
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        no single narrative especially that constitutes a single story can represent any human culture that walked the planet.

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