I was wondering what happened to people once they were conquered in EB times. After the Dacian conquests did they cease to exist as a cultural identity (i.e. were the people who identified as being "Dacian" simply become incorporated into new groups) or were they annihilated (i.e. are there no current decedents of the Dacians) or a combination of both?

I find it interesting that in the “dark” ages that “barbarian” cultures (Vandals etc) appeared – obviously they had to come from somewhere; whether it was a small group that became larger through breeding or whether it was a composed of groups of people from diverse cultural identities who began to identify as being from the same culture over time.