"It's the indigenous peoples that pay the price.
OF ALL the peoples that make up Brazil, the quilombolas have perhaps the most remarkable story.
But it is the plight of the indigenous peoples that is Reid's chief concern.
And then he peoples that world with characters that he treats better than history ever would.
It is those peoples that have rapidly switched to a Western diet that exhibit the worst of this syndrome.
It is the world's newly ascendant nations and awakened peoples that will increasingly shape events in the post-Western era.
Theodosius's heirs, however, were less successful at containing the various Germanic peoples that had moved into the empire.
Viking society, which had developed by the 9th century, included the peoples that lived in what are now Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and, from the 10th century, Iceland.
The difficulty in establishing distinct language boundaries is the result of a gradual and continuous migration of peoples that has produced a complex pattern of merged ethnic groups.
It is possible that their migration southward was part of a general movement of peoples that followed, or perhaps helped trigger, the collapse of the Toltec civilization.
However, scholarship later suggested that these movements too were not invasions but rather slow migrations of Arab peoples that occurred over several centuries.
