did the Romans at all associate their supposed superiority to barbarians with their greater technical knowhow (IE example they had watermills well the Celts were still grinding by hand) or did they imagine it to be an entirely cultural superiority (IE "we make better art & poetry than them")?
by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians
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