08-19-2004, 06:56 AM
Well said, Taira1180.<br>
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I hope this map will shed any possible ignorance held by some members of this website. It shows the general racial distribution of the world prior to the 1400s (as stated in the caption). Five races are displayed : Mongolians, Caucasians, Ethiopians, Malayans, and Americans.<br>
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Personally, I consider there to be three basic races : Caucasoids, Negroids, and Mongoloids. Anything else to me is a mixture of the three.<br>
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<img src="http://members.aol.com:/rcasti998/racialdistribution" style="border:0;"/><br>
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Hopefully you can see that 1/4 or 1/5 of the African continent was inhabited by Caucasians all in the north and north east <em>above</em> the Saharan desert.<br>
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Given that White Africa and Black Africa were separated by hundreds of miles of barren wasteland, would anyone care to give the odds that Septimius Severus was black ?<br>
(rhetorical) <br>
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Severus was most likely part Punic, as Taira1180 said, since he was born at an Italian colony in Libya. Just as Trajan and Hadrian were only partially Spanish since they too were born at Italian colonies in the Iberian peninsula.<br>
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<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=theodosiusthegreat>Theodosius the Great</A> at: 8/19/04 9:23 am<br></i>
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I hope this map will shed any possible ignorance held by some members of this website. It shows the general racial distribution of the world prior to the 1400s (as stated in the caption). Five races are displayed : Mongolians, Caucasians, Ethiopians, Malayans, and Americans.<br>
<br>
Personally, I consider there to be three basic races : Caucasoids, Negroids, and Mongoloids. Anything else to me is a mixture of the three.<br>
<br>
<img src="http://members.aol.com:/rcasti998/racialdistribution" style="border:0;"/><br>
<br>
<br>
Hopefully you can see that 1/4 or 1/5 of the African continent was inhabited by Caucasians all in the north and north east <em>above</em> the Saharan desert.<br>
<br>
Given that White Africa and Black Africa were separated by hundreds of miles of barren wasteland, would anyone care to give the odds that Septimius Severus was black ?<br>
(rhetorical) <br>
<br>
Severus was most likely part Punic, as Taira1180 said, since he was born at an Italian colony in Libya. Just as Trajan and Hadrian were only partially Spanish since they too were born at Italian colonies in the Iberian peninsula.<br>
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<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=theodosiusthegreat>Theodosius the Great</A> at: 8/19/04 9:23 am<br></i>
Jaime
