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Herodotus wrote in his book, called "History": "επειδή οι Κόλχοι έχουν μαύρο δέρμα και σγουρά μαλλιά" - "the Colchians have dark skin and curly hair"
here, the word "μαύρο" (Mauro, moor) means dark. There were many other Caucasoids with curly hair also - like for example Assyrians, Akadians, Sumerians, Phoenicians and etc. if he wanted to write "Negroes", there was a word for this in the old Greek language - "Mellas".
term "Moore" was used to describe North African, a little more darker Caucasoids and not sub-saharan Negroids. in the middle ages "The Moors" were the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb (North Africa), also the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and portugal), Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages. The Moors initially were the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers. The name was later also applied to Arabs.
Herodotus was from Greece. Let’s keep things simple, the Greeks are “white”, obviously more tanned looking than Northern and Western Europeans. In essence, the Skin color of Greeks are similar to most people around the Mediterranean region, parts of iran, Anatolia.
