Why Is the Label "Germanic Peoples" Misleading When Used to Describe

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Multiple Choice

Why is the label "Germanic peoples" misleading when used to describe the non-Roman peoples who flooded into the empire?

• A) The barbarian peoples were ethnically and linguistically diverse.
• B) This was a term of abuse created by the Romans themselves to describe the barbarians.
• C) None of these peoples lived in regions that correspond to the borders of Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• D) Most of these peoples spoke languages that were more closely related to modern East Asian languages, including Korean and Japanese.

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