A lot of our written history is preserved from the mediterranean civilizations. They have a tendency to describe other civilizations as less developed, primitiv

A lot of our written history is preserved from the mediterranean civilizations. They have a tendency to describe other civilizations as less developed, primitive fighters. That was almost never really the truth of course. Some of it lives on in words such as "barbarians", "slaves" etc. that are very pejorative to the people originally referred to. I'm sure similar words exists in other old civilizations with good written record, such as the Chinese.