Teutonic/Teutons refers mostly and typically to what ancient race of people?
Teutons was denied, the Teutonic women slew their own children. The next morning, all the women were found dead in each other's arms, having strangled each other during the night. Their joint martyrdom passed into Roman legends of Teutonic fury. Some surviving captives reportedly participated as the rebelling gladiators in the Third Servile War of 73-71 BC. Teutons The Teutons (Latin: "Teutones", "Teutoni", Greek: "Τεύτονες") were an ancient tribe mentioned by Roman authors. They are generally classified as a Germanic tribe. The Teutons are best known for their participation in the Cimbrian War with the Roman Republic in the late 2nd
Nordic race of anthropometric measurements, but focused especially on their cephalic index and stature. Compared to Deniker, Ripley advocated a simplified racial view and proposed a single "Teutonic" race linked to geographic areas where Nordic-like characteristics predominate, and contrasted these areas to the boundaries of two other types, "Alpine" and "Mediterranean", thus reducing the 'caucasoid branch of humanity' to three distinct groups. By the early 20th century, Ripley's tripartite Nordic/Alpine/Mediterranean model was well established. Most 19th century race-theorists like Arthur de Gobineau, Otto Ammon, Georges Vacher de Lapouge and Houston Stewart Chamberlain preferred to speak of "Aryans," "Teutons," and "Indo-Europeans" instead of