The Mongols
The Mongols boasted the largest land-based empire off all human history when they broke off of Mongolia. The Mongols connected the agriculturalists from the inner Eurasian steppes with the Eurasian agricultural communities by a greater margin, and closer, than ever before. Much like the Scandinavian warriors the Mongols were labeled vikings. Although vikings existed the Scandinavians never referred to themselves as such. The vikings were in fact actually just barbarians. The Mongols were considered the same. Barbarians have a bad connotation to them coming from their Germanic roots during the Roman empire, but in reality barbarians are only in fact foreigners. This comes from the Latin barbaros meaning foreign. Much like the gladiators we know of today as knights who fight in an arena coming. Gladiator comes from the Latin gladius meaning sword and by adding or to the end you get one who fights with a sword.
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