What do we know about the peoples who destroyed the Roman Empire, whom the Romans classified as uncivilized? Were the barbarians barbarians? The author of the book proves that, in any case, they were the creators of the modern world no less than the Romans themselves. Getting to know them is surprising: the sophistication of the Celts in engineering and mathematics; highly developed religious philosophy of the Dacians; that the Greeks were undoubtedly on the verge of an industrial revolution; comfortable life in the Vandal estates and a kind of “iron curtain” between the kingdom of Attila and the Roman Empire... The main advantage of the book is the opportunity to look at Roman civilization from an alternative point of view.