Comments on: Successful Ethnic Assimilation

By: Reader

Reader — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:09:36 +0000

Some other pieces you should look at on Rome, immigration, and race: What Race were the Greeks & Romans? Ancient Romans, Race and Immigration Ancient Romans, Beauty and HBD Biology of Slavery Rome & Genetic Pacification The Ancient Concept of Race More stuff at humanbiologicaldiversity.com.

By: Rollory

Rollory — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:44:12 +0000

As for the overall point, it’s valid. The Roman state was perhaps the one case where a proposition nation (everybody is Roman) actually became inculcated enough in the various component populations, became accepted enough, that it actually worked. The people we call Byzantines called themselves Romans and still considered themselves Romans.

It was a process that took centuries though, and the later-stage “Roman” populations were not in any sense the same people as the Romans who founded the empire, no more so than Mexicans and Guatemalans are the same type of Americans as George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, no matter how well they play baseball.

By: Rollory

Rollory — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:39:04 +0000

“domestic peace was finally established by a hereditary monarchy”

This is not what happened. If you go through the whole list of Roman emperors from Augustus to Theodosius (the point at which east and west definitively separated), you find exactly one and only one case where it went father-son-grandson, that being the family of Constantine.

There were several father-to-son inheritances but the sons were uniformly disastrous, and it was more a matter of “I have the power so we’ll keep it” than any formal monarchical theory. The Persians by comparison were a model of stability.