"But as long as the Pope is alive, the Vatican is not going to countenance any deals between foreign barbarians and themselves."
The Italian press, however, is fascinated by foreign barbarians.
The Ming focused on building up a powerful standing army that could drive off attacks by foreign barbarians.
It was a mongrel city, half of whose population were foreign barbarians.
There are some advantages to being a foreign barbarian," he told her with a sly smile.
Rangaku became crucial not only in understanding the foreign "barbarians" but also in using the knowledge gained from the West to fend them off.
Her exceptional height was insignificant among these foreign barbarians.
"What do we pure-blood Aryans care about the superstitious rituals of foreign barbarians, practiced in their far-off and distant lands?"
He specifically warned future Emperors only to defend against foreign barbarians, and not engage in military campaigns for glory and conquest.
She turned her mind off the inevitable to the immediate problem of the baffling foreign barbarian who was causing her nothing but grief.