[gaijin]

MORE amazing history (from the Swap Meet)...!!!

/sarc

[gaijin]

OMG..! Finally the TRUFF..!!

Mozart wuz black, y'all..!!

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Malice is dead? I didn’t even know he was sick!

[Cronos]

Well, "Romans" depending on the period of history were not exclusively white (except during the early Republican era) - from the time of Marius onwards they did have admixture with Berber peoples and by the time of the Severan dynasty were merged with Semitic peoples.

they weren't aub-Saharan African in general but there were doubtless some citizens from Caracalla's time onwards who had some sub-saharan African blood and even East Asian blood

The black and white dichtomy is daft, the Romans only cared if you were a citizen or not.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) I was just thinking about how the Roman ethnicity was already well on the way out by the time of the Pompeian War and the end of the so-called Roman Republic. To be Roman was to have Roman citizenship, and as the citizenship was expanded to include all areas under Roman rule, the influence of Roman culture -- whoops, I mean, the cultural appropriation by non-Romans of Roman customs, lifestyle, and trappings -- was ubiquitous. This has happened before, this time I was on the hopper.