>>11111493Uggh, another thread where people watch a 7min youtube history documentary and come talking about Race bullshit in Rome.
First, there was a criteria for being an Emperor and although there was dark skinned Emperors none of them were African in origin, even if they were living in North African Roman provinces.
Why?
You had to be a Roman to be someone important in Rome. There were some Phoenicians who held governorship over certain provinces, along with some Gauls, Germans, Spanish and Egyptian/Syrian and so on but these were NOT the races you know today. This is long before the migration of Arabs from the Stepp or Blacks from Central Africa.
Yes there was slaves, who were both of these types and more, slaves were a currency and shipped around the world. Just like the Ottoman's imported ginger Irish people.
However, understand the system in Rome, you needed to be from a noble house. EVEN IF, a slave was set free, they were only a Freedman. And they had no rights what so ever. They could not vote in the Senate and were not given welfare of any kind.
The dark skinned people who were Emperors were Carthiginians, Dacians, Gauls, Germanians, Belgae, Spanish, Sicilian or Greek. Their skin colour may have been tanned. But they were Western European in Origin.
Even today, people assume the Namibians were Blacks. They were originally Scandinavian or boat people as the Egyptians called them, who invaded the entire Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze age, causing a dark age. They settled, took horses with them and eventually controlled the region and over time shipped nogs from Central Africa and slowly assimilated them. Carthage was a colony of Phoenicia. Their mother city was Tyre, to which Alexander the Great conquered.
My point is simple, Blacks were nothing in the world. Just a currency. Used to pay debts and work in the death mines.
