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When did the greeks begin to view outsiders as "barbarians"?

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The Greek plural for barbarians, barbaroi, arose as a term to describe non Greek speaking peoples, as a pejorative. When they first began encountering foreigners in Mycanean Greece, so somewhere aroun the 16 to 12th century BCE.
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