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In the West, there's an assertion that modern Western societies follow the lineage of Ancient Rome and Greece, but isn't it more accurate that the modern West are descendants of the "Barbarians" of Northern Europe?

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In the West, there's an assertion that modern Western societies follow the lineage of Ancient Rome and Greece, but isn't it more accurate that the modern West are descendants of the "Barbarians" of Northern Europe?	296