Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East.

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• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Modern Levant and Levant people three thousand years ago are both different in appearance. You can thank the Crusaders from Europe for changing this.

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  • DadVolante@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anci but Romans weren’t even really white. More olive toned.

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    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All Europeans are white… You mean to tell me the amount of melanin in their skin is inconsequential?

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      • DadVolante@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Like I said, more Olive toned. Sorry it offends you but ancient Europeans, especially people in the Italian peninsula and Greece didn’t exactly look like the Europeans of today, being as most of them came from a different part of the world

        They were white people who left the middle east, they were middle eastern people who eventually turned white due to the different climate conditions of the area.

        Not dumb as fuck, nuanced. History is neat like that

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Italians and Irish weren’t considered white even 100 years ago. Haven’t you seen the photos of signs that read “Help Wanted, Irish and Italians need not apply!” ?

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  • Maiq@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To expand on this with some small context albeit way older than the Romans. Egyptians gave the Peleset land in the Levant. Theorised that they were warrior peoples of the sea and the Philistines of biblical text somewhere in the late second millennium BC before the bronze age colapse. There is an incredible documentary by Pete Kelly (History Time) on youtube. Well worth the watch. Another great video he did about the Akkadians called The first Empire. He also did a great video about the Hittites. His whole channel is a goldmine of knowledge of the ancient world.

    Any way the ancient world is filled with peoples from all over, moving around. Trade was a major factor. War was another. People from all over the Mediterranean and beyond mixed knowledge, their trades, their crafts, blood on battlefields and likely genes. Probably long before there was a written word pressed in clay.

    Were all muts.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, but we all know you’re a liar, who yells one truth per game. Where did you get a potion of eternal youth anyway?

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      • Maiq@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        M’aiq is very practical. He has no need for mysticism.

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