The Role Of Africans In The Greco Roman World

[@crisleroi299]

Alonzo traveled back in time to avoid doing life in Pelican Bay.

[@Paytonwh]

Lmaooo 😂😂

[@travismclaurin9419]

There should be a video about the African Moors and Italy 🇮🇹 and Sicily.

[@TheStranger9-x6t]

The 'african' Moors were slaves to Arabs in the Umayyad Caliphate. Once again you're cosplaying as people who didn't give af about nappy-headed bantus and subjugated them

[@Will-bn3vt]

Not a good look. Research will tell an amateur scholar that MOST of the African population were not slaves. They were citizens, soldiers, even administrators. There were Africans that were slaves..but so were many from the regions we now call Germany, France, etc… The Romans enslaved who they conquered..not who had a different color. Denzel’s presence would not have been an aberration. This is probably the 4th video you’ve made with glaring errors

[@TheStranger9-x6t]

Sub-Saharan africans need vitamin D injections to survive European winters, there were no citizens much less soldiers and administrators in any Roman territory on European soil.😅😅😅😅😅😅 Even in Northern Africa, the population wasn't nappyheaded blacks. The only encounter Europeans had with blacks was the Ethiopians, and they were never a part of the Empire

[@willcooper-md4lv]

@@TheStranger9-x6t This is a dumb and ignorant comment. I challenge you to please read..like something...

[@PassportG]

Don't even waste your time on responding to him. ​@@willcooper-md4lv

[@devinedude3690]

Salute my friend..🏆🥂💥👍🏾 Your guidance & insights have been endlessly enriching for close to a decade now....

[@ianblake815]

One of the best historical channels!

[@anobserver9658]

I just read THE SIBYLS Mami Wata. It gives a very in-depth history of Africans in Greece, Rome and Libya. The Book ORIGINAL SIN by Dr. DCA Hillman confirms the information, even though he doesn't go into too much depth regarding the African presence.

[@PackHunter117]

Africans would’ve been rare in the Greco-Roman world. Most of the slaves came from fellow Western and Eastern Europeans. As well as many Levantine Asians. There definitely would’ve been traders and mercenaries or auxiliaries from Northern Africa but they would’ve been smaller in number as well. Same with traders and merchants.

[@hoodiek6802]

I would refute that considering the Mali Empire for example had ships on the sea

[@PackHunter117]

@hookiek6802 How big and expansive was their navy? Also it still goes with traders and merchants.

[@InterstellarMystiq]

If we’re talking about Africans in Rome how can we not talk about the Etruscans , also the Roman emperor Septimius Severus or Pope Victor I, who headed the church from 189-199, Pope Miltiades (311-314), and Pope Gelasius I, who was pope from 492-496?

[@ThePawcios]

Etruscans were not Africans :P.

[@snowdroog1]

​@@ThePawcios They partially were. Etruscans were composed of different groups that settled the western peninsula at about the same time and melded culturally and ethnically with the locals. It was one of the last spots that didn't have unfriendly greeks, so it that's why it happened there.

[@ThePawcios]

@@snowdroog1 Non of the groups that you mentioned came from Africa :P They were closer to Phoenicians from Lebanon or further east Asia....

[@InterstellarMystiq]

@@ThePawcios what you need to know is that the people who we know as Eurasians today came into existence 6-9 thousands years ago prior to this period everyone on this planet was genetically “black”.

[@vibeamv859]

@@ThePawcios blud white people didnt come into existence until 4,800 years ago

[@butterflylily7207]

This is why it's important for black & brown people to travel everywhere. We were and are every where! I've gone to Rome and you can even see sculptures of Africans faces moulded into ancient buildings... Recent visit to a museum in Nordic country showed the first settlers were dark skin, blue eyes and wavey hair. Not white like vikings..!.. So much for us to learn...

[@complexblackness]

Black & brown? How does "Brown" factor into this?

[@darklysm8345]

You can see north africans, not blacks.And you talk about black vikings lmao

[@diawilliams5915]

1ST THING you need to learn is dropping that " BLACK & BROWN " B.S.

[@complexblackness]

@@diawilliams5915 Exactly

[@TheStranger9-x6t]

Blacks need vitamin D injections to survive European winters, you think you were first in the Nordic countries hahaahahhahahaahhahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@blackpanda7298]

0:23 that’s my man, my man, my man, my mannnnn ❤ 4ever

[@thevisitor1012]

Kind of a missed opportunity to mention prominent African figures like Lusius Quietus and Emperor Macrinus.

[@SoulVibr8tion]

You should mention it on your channel.

[@st3019]

Which NONE of them was black African and people who look like Denzel Washington had absolutely NOTHING to do with Greco -Roman world .

[@sarajj6]

@@st3019 wow, the irony in your ignorance is... ironic. The romans had a name for the anglos btw... look it up. the other germanic were slaves in the empire, not friends of it LOL.

[@st3019]

@ Do you have any idea what are you talking about ?! I said that black Africans were NOT part of Greco Roman world and that is a fact . If there was any black person living in Roman territory that doesn’t change anything. Still they were not part of indigenous communities in the empire.

[@thevisitor1012]

@@st3019 *admits that Black Africans were part of the empire. And continues to argue that they weren't* Weird.

[@AbiolaRaha]

Africans had their black jobs back in ancient Rome

[@st3019]

Africa is a continent not a race nor culture

[@Blamelesskhalil]

Respectfully man I think you focus way too much on the slave narrative when it comes to African dynamics with peoples outside of the continent, like even slavs fight tooth and nail to reject the claim that their ethnicity is the origin for the word for subjugation, but you run to highlight any chance you get to mention how black people were enslaved by different groups lool, literally it’s the first thing you mentioned in Greco Roman relations with Africans , instead of mentioning how in Greek literature specifically, Africans are highly venerated

[@TheStranger9-x6t]

Africans were never highly venerated in Greece. You obviously never read an actual book in Greek😅😅😅😅

[@vibeamv859]

@@TheStranger9-x6t They were you clown. They even said in their myths that their cities were founded by people from Africa, they call blacks tall and handsome, they said that the gods come and sit with Africans and there are even blacks in greek myths. So who hasnt read a book again?

[@ThePawcios]

@@vibeamv859 How it can be true if Romans invented name Africa, Greeks couldn't call it like that.... I think you have no idea about history :P

[@AsteriusAetosSonOfTheDawn]

@@TheStranger9-x6tyes they actually where. You have never read Diodorus. Certainly they weren’t treated less than the hoarders of east European and Germanic servants

[@olarenwajufalusi4979]

Writing was birth in Africa, so is medicine, surgery, astrology, science and engineering...no one taught us how to dig wells & find water, no one teaches the African how to discover fire

[@PackHunter117]

Europe got most of it’s knowledge of science, history, language, etc from Asia. Mesopotamia, India, China, and followed by Egypt started civilization after all.

[@Blackfoot100]

Black people are the Mothers and fathers of civilization.

[@TheStranger9-x6t]

In woke movies sure in real life you're the mothers and fathers of mud huts😅😅😅

[@ianblake815]

Cold hard truth

[@FromNothing]

In some places yes, in others no. For example East Asian civilization was founded by the Chinese, Mesoamerican and Andean was founded by Native-Americans. The Indus valley civilization was founded by South Asians. Much of Mediterranean civilization was indeed credited to influence from Africans though, particularly the Nile Valley. Other parts of it came from Mesopotamia though. So I think it's great to be proud of our African ancestry but we should also be fair and objective before making such bold assertions like that.

[@Blackfoot100]

It's already been proven, scientifically. There is no people older, than Black people.

[@Blackfoot100]

This hurts some people felling, even some Black people, Black people are the Mothers and fathers of Humans and civilization.

[@AfricanCocoa-i1g]

Denzel can’t ever be ugly. Look at him, sexy old man♥️

[@lgo5398]

Hello, Could you do videos on Henry II, Caracalla, Manuel I Komnenos, Septimius Severus, Geta, Maximinus and Charlemagne? Thank you.

[@Obidiahsgreatwork]

Bro you gotta get this right

[@quelnariemrah5624]

Africans' natural slave position comes post colonial idea of Africa. Did the Romans of the time claim this position?

[@chocolatecaramel4447]

Exactly! It would pay for some of these commentors to do some research first.

[@daviousking3828]

Thank you for what you do

[@Gallus7631]

Idk why it’s so hard to believe, there have always been settlements of blacks, black travelers & black emissaries throughout the ancient world as far as the Kyvian Rus (Ukraine) western to central China, the Kyrgz region/Altay Mountains, India & Ancient Afghanistan. People need to stop playing, especially in academia, I just can’t stomach how someone can literally dedicate half their lives to education, getting a PhD & after all of that still never learned how to tell the truth. SMDH, that’s why I left academia myself, strangely enough I found myself in the company of some of the least intelligent, least informed individuals I’ve ever had the displeasure of being in the company of.

[@Ahmeddauud-g5z]

Ethiopia meent African then.

[@RaionDeva]

exaclty in my language, KiKongo, Katiopa meant terre of black, who at the times meant all of africa. Mutiopa in singular, and Batiopa plurial

[@thevisitor1012]

The Ethiopians were the people who lived below Egypts boarders. This is an important distinction to make as many would assume the Egyptians weren't Africans based off your comment.

[@Ahmeddauud-g5z]

@@thevisitor1012 Egyptians were Africans,do not misunderstand me bro,them called home"the land of punt,today Somalia,Eritrea" learn.

[@mohamedaliabdallah4267]

Meroë

[@weskerwillie9044]

There was a huge Greco roman demography that looked just like denzel Washington and weren't Ethiopians or Egyptians. That's one. Then second, trying to put these people into a slave category. Wtf?

[@Blackfoot100]

BLACK PEOPLE, BEING THE MOTHERS AND FATHERS OF CIVILIZATION, REALLY HURTS SOME PEOPLE, GET OVER IT..

[@CrowdPleeza]

As far as the beginning part of the video. To those who believe the Greeks got their philosophy from Egypt. Here's an Egyptologist speaking on this. At 14:50 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2q8dZakd7Fqf8Usi=vLlOZ3nYoG2rvncH

[@Akirathetiger]

Super cool , great video!! 🎉 something i noticed: why are so many statue noses damaged?

[@Crimson-kt7fd]

Probably just simple weathering and erosion. But it wouldn't surprise me if they were purposely damaged. I know some Egyptian Pharaohs destroyed mentions of former Pharaohs to obliterate their memory. Like what Thutmose III did after Hapshetsut died.

[@eminentbishop1325]

Its the same reason many are missing arms or legs. Those are more fragile and tend to break off first if left uncared for or buried or just damaged

[@porkbeans4792]

Black Athena

[@veldrensavoth7119]

*So are FBA all just Ethiopian and Irish with some either Native American/mexican or Taino heritage?* because none of us are Kenyan Angolan or Somalian right unless your Nigerian or Ghana from Ghana because then you aren’t FBA.

[@MrArtfreako]

think you bein way too shallow here buddy the history of all these african countries that you just mentioned does not begin with the official proclamation of its alleged foundations by the european colonialists who went down to Africa n chose to call these countries the names that you've gone on to know them for ever since then...!all of these countries populations are made up by native tribes who've got well over 300's years of recorded history before any one of them did actually take the names that we've known them for.....

[@yoshuabendavies]

fba is the label of one who does not know who they are. How pathetic

[@essedistracted5518]

Allora io mi chiedo se c'è così ribrezzo contro neri o africani. Come mai proprio l'Europa sembra essere la più multietnica di sempre?! Mistero di Peter Pan. 😏😏😏Alla fine gli europei sono così presi dai loro antenati africani. Che li rivogliono per loro 😂😂😂. Quanto amore tra Africani e europaAsia. Pace . Colui che conosce se stesso come l'universo . Ha vinto tutto. Ama te stesso così potrai amare gli africani.

[@starchproof]

WE

[@st3019]

“ Africans in Greco Roman world “ ! Hmmm The term “ African “ and “ black and brown people “ is used by many black folks to appropriate the history of North Africa which was ALWAYS RACIALLY and CULTURALLY related with Mediterranean world and had almost nothing to do with societies of black Africa . Yes North Africans were very important part of Greco Roman civilizations but black Africans had no connection with that at all . A CONTINENT DOES NOT EQUALS RACE NOR CULTURE.

[@chocolatecaramel4447]

In AD 193, Lucius Septimius Severus was named ruler of the Roman Empire and in doing so became Rome’s first African Emperor.

[@st3019]

@ He was A NORTH African and he did NOT look like Denzel Washington. Iranians and Chinese are both Asians but they do NOT look the same . Iranians are similar with Europeans and other west Eurasians. So are Northern Africans . A CONTINENT DOES NOT EQUALS RACE NOR CULTURE

[@Iluvmuneey]

@@st3019cope and seethe the moors were black, go back to ur basement nazi

[@ronaldtuckercva]

Stop calling all brown people AFRICANS those days are over.

[@sarajj6]

starting to think this guy is paid by eurocentrics or just ignorant to the depth of africanity of rome. Appeasing them wont help us bro...

[@TheStranger9-x6t]

There's nothing african about Rome except maybe the prisons, poverty ghеttоs аnd refugee camps in modern day Rome😅😅😅

[@soda8736]

African doesn't mean black

[@Blackfoot100]

Dr Ben was one of our greats, on these subjects. He returned to the ancestors..

[@st3019]

@@Blackfoot100 Dr Ben was just a habitual liar.

[@Blackfoot100]

@st3019 Nope, Doc Ben was one of the G.O.A.T. . DON'T KNOW WHY YOU TYPE ME Caucasian. FAKING LIKE YOUR BLACK DON'T TYPE ME AGAIN. ADDRESS THE BLOG.

[@Blackfoot100]

The only liar is you Caucasian.

[@Blackfoot100]

Dr Ben was a head of his time.

[@st3019]

@@Blackfoot100 ahead of his time ?! About what?!

[@atshabal]

Blacks were not slaves in Rome your all narratives is wrong.

[@masehoart7569]

This is about the Greco-Roman period. There were free(d) & enslaved Africans, just like anybody else: Artisans, mercenaries, merchants, diplomates, etc. - It is known that under the pharaoh Psamtik (who was Lybian-Egyptians), side by side with the Egyptian army, Greek mercenaries invaded the Sudan - it was customary to reward soldiers with gold & war captives. Who should apologise to you for history not being glorious & delightful mist of the time?

[@TheStranger9-x6t]

Blacks didn't exist in Rome

[@YoungBillyKatastrophe]

Northern part of Africa was part of Rome 500 plus years before any of these Northern European territories.. Rome foundationally architecture, philosophy, language etc.. come from Northern Africa.. Rome is right next to Northern Africa

[@TheStranger9-x6t]

Only a pot smoking blackity-black american who probably never left his crappy neighbourhood can write such a dumb comment. Roman architecture is compatible with the climate, philosophy comes from Greeks, the Latin language evolved from the dialects of the Italic peoples of and its earliest written records date back to the 7th century BCE IN WHAT IS NOW ITALY AND NOT ANYWHERE IN AFRICA. Why is it that africans want to insert themselves everywhere they don't belong? Don't you have your own continent with your own history

[@ThePawcios]

If Rome architecture came from Africa where you can find it in Africa? The same with language and philosophy? Its simply not true :P Rome origins are in Italian penisula and cultures that they encounter first, Greeks, Celts, Etruscans :P

[@vibeamv859]

@@ThePawcios he is talking about Egypt, the romans and greeks credit Kemet for their knowledge

[@ThePawcios]

@@vibeamv859 What knowledge precicly? I know about glass manufacturing... but that's it.... Rome took ideas from most of it neighbours improving it significantly...

[@TheStranger9-x6t]

​@vibeamv859 Nothing in Egypt is even compatible with the climate and way of life in Europe so what ''knowledge" could desertdwelling lоsers who got subjugated by everyone they met can have😅😅😅

[@darklysm8345]

Cope more.

[@truth9415]

you're projecting

[@theimage7030]

What's there to cope about?

[@yoshuabendavies]

isnt your entire reality a coping mechanism? cope harder while you leave comments letting us all know how pathetic you are 🤣

[@tompossessed1729]

​@@HærryßYou keep saying African history no history but keep coming to African history videos

[@darklysm8345]

@theimage7030 the miniscule amount of subsaharan africans in the mediterrain

[@flyleelee5351]

Not everyone who's melanated is African

[@TruthIsLikeTheSun]

And not everyone who is African is melanated.

[@samanthaenfiedjian7354]

@@TruthIsLikeTheSun Lol…perspective and objective analysis. The person who commented previously, must learn to see in layers and “Critical Thinking” skills. 😌

[@truth9415]

We know for a fact, the Greeks spoke about Black Africans. There's no confusion here.

[@darklysm8345]

@@truth9415 What fact? lol.

[@truth9415]

@@darklysm8345 Several Greek Historians made mention of Black Africans in Ancient Greece.

[@martonyomchale342]

Over all HomeTeamHistory does a poor job with North African/Mediterranean history. When talking about Carthage and it's africanity he did a poor job citing sources as well. Afro-centrics typically do a poor job with North African/Mediterranean history because they haven't studied it. There is more to Africa than Egypt and West Africa. HomeTeamHistory also tried to debunk the existence of queer people in Africa as well a few years ago so this isn't the first time he's been off. He has his biases for sure.

[@yoshuabendavies]

cite your sources for queer people

[@martonyomchale342]

@@yoshuabendavies And stay off my comment section until you've read all of it. This isn't a debate. You are here to learn.

[@williamrogers4791]

Absulutely correct britian was once a nation black people with blue eyes, common sense settlers travelled around the world,??

[@ThePawcios]

yes with aliens, reptilians and space jews XD You must live in flat earth XD

[@Hærryß]

Trying to dig your grubby paws into Greco-Roman history is disgusting. Make your own history.

[@trellnebula]

Tell that to the descendants of the groups Romans and Greeks considered barbarians and bog people aka Germanic white supremacists

[@tompossessed1729]

That not even the case here when you're it only said thier were black people in gerco Roman periods

[@adijjajohnson922]

Memnom my boy memnom

[@sugarzblossom8168]

It either happened or it didn't regardless of how you feel about it

[@AfricanPrinse]

And what is your business in African history? Why are you in a place that is not yours just commenting disgusting nonsense.