Word: barbariane
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...pivot point-the Middle East. All four had cultural traditions of their own; but technologies, crops, philosophies, military methods and art forms were traded back and forth, along with epidemic disease. Invasions of horse-riding nomads from the steppes were another recurring plague; but even the greatest barbarian onslaught, the Mongol explosion of the 13th century, was finally fought off or absorbed...
Monday, April 22 Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). John Huston's The Barbarian and the Geisha stars John Wayne, not as the geisha. Color...
What did interrupt this continuity were the periodic barbarian invasions which jolted the civilization from its static condition. These invasions coincide with a new force and vigor...
...bread from his church's altar when he was young, and has been playing out a whole series of Mr. Morrow's fantasies ever since. His obsession is carving a mountain into an equestrian status of Crazy Horse, which represents, among other things, a desire to resurrect the noble barbarian, a wish to imprison God in stone and thus kill him, and a hope of consecrating the stone of the mountain. I know all these things, because Morrow has written them into the monologue that constitutes the last quarter of the play...
According to Bingham, Machu Picchu was in reality the Tampu-Tocco ("Window Tavern") of pre-Inca legend, a mountain fortress maintained by the kings of the Amautas, who ruled the highlands of the Andes for 62 generations. The last king, Pachacuti VI, was mortally wounded in a battle with barbarian tribes of the Amazon jungles, probably in the 8th century A.D., and his body was carried by his loyal warriors to Tampu-Tocco. With the death of Pachacuti, the widespread kingdom of the Amautas broke into pieces...