Early the next morning, Zhang Heng saw the Germanic sitting in a prison wagon.
At this time, the Germanic people were not as promising as their descendants that later spread all over Europe. To the Romans, these people were deemed barbarians, where "Germanic" was a collective term used for the barbarian tribes on the Rhine's right bank. The Romans and the Germanic had a long history fighting each other; the first conflict between the two sides tracing all the way back to 113 BC.
