Were Ancient Romans Actually Middle Eastern? 🧬 🇮🇹

[@tylerpatti9038]

It's almost as if italy is a Mediterranean country.

[@Ancestrallinguist]

lol

[@Sirvalian]

They had more Anatolian farmer DNA than the Germanic people who had more steppe herder DNA.

[@dravidianbro6521]

Original levantine and Mesopotamians have their ancestry evenly distributed between Neolithic anatolians,Neolithic Iranians and natufians,whereas original arabs are predominantly of natufian ancestry

[@Algenro]

Love your channel Very quality videos

[@Ancestrallinguist]

Thank you very much!

[@dravidianbro6521]

Ancient Italians have about 25 to 35 percent have ancestry resembling ancient Celtic people,then remaining ancestry came from early European farmers,but during later periods migrations from eastern regions brought Neolithic Iranian and levantine ancestry resulting in high Neolithic anatolian farmer ancestry,moderate amounts of Iranian and levantine ancestry,then during decline of Empire,the influx of Germanic tribes resulted in high steppe ancestry.Ancient romans during initial phases represented their ancestry same as that of Spaniards and Portuguese.

[@tylerpatti9038]

The Anatolian farmers were already in Italy when the Italo-Celtic people arrived.

[@MorrisJohn-vo2vn]

3:50 the multiethnic population that turned rome into an empire from a chiefdom. They remembered this history with Aenias.

[@ansibarius4633]

The story of Aeneas' exploits around the Palatine was probably made up by the Romans in an attempt to culturally insert themselves into the respectable world of Hellenic epic history. The kingdom has its own legends though, like that of Romulus providing an asylum at Rome and the infamous story with the Sabine women. But those may also be later fictionalizations of early cases of enfranchisement of surrounding tribes.

[@Tornout-e7i]

Arab term is wrong. Greeks and modern Near eastern Christians is correct

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

It's just a bait but Arabs and Semites are west Asian just like leventine, Anatolian and southern European. They didn't just evolved separately but all came from a single origine that is different than northern Europeans.

[@cenktuneygok8986]

Dude, he is talking about Rome. It far precede Christianity by 500 years at the very least. If this video is true, then Romans were Semites. I doubt it though. There could be some intermixing, as even modern Latins have some Semitic ancestry but not enough to make Romans Semitic.

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

@cenktuneygok8986 That's not what he wants to say, but there is a big confusion between Rome and the whole Italic peninsula, which was colonized by Phénicians in the south during Millenia and the people possessed the Haplogroup J, Common in the Middle East as J1(Hebrew, Yemenite, Arab), but Phénicians were J1, J2 and Greeks mostly J2. There were other Middle Eastern Haplogroup from the north Middle East, like G2, coming from Iran, Chechnya, and Georgia, but I am not sure that they were Semitic, although Middle Eastern. Haplogroup R1b1 came from step invaders long ago and is shared with gauls and Celtics.

[@nicechock]

wrong. near eastern christian is not an ethnicity.

[@nicechock]

Romans were middle eastern and herodians were too. They were of Esau who mixed with canannites.

[@CMCNestT]

Ancient Anatolia, Phoenicia, Egypt were not Arabs. The Arabs came out of Arabia in the ~8th Century AD. The ancient Anatolians were almost certainly white. The Phoenicians less so. And Ancient Egyptians even less so.

[@ibrohimh9976]

Arabians of Egypt and Sinai peninsula and levant and Iraq and other

[@Paxia]

Well, the Arabs didn’t actually come from Arabia, the evidence points out to them originally coming from the Syrian desert, rather than the Arabian peninsula. The peninsula got Arabized by Nabateans over time. Then the Muslim caliphates Arabized the areas that were not Arabized by the Nabateans and other civilizations such as Yemen’s

[@ibrohimh9976]

@@Paxia hahhahahshahahaha

[@ibrohimh9976]

@@Paxia Northern Arabian desert are Arabian not Syrian not levant.

[@ibrohimh9976]

@@Paxia Down with levantocentrism

[@paulie4450]

The better question is: Were Iran (Persia), Iraq (Baghdad), Afghanistan, Syria ARAB? NOPE. Islam started 600 years after Christianity. Arabs didnt leave Arabia till after 600-700 AD. Arabia is places like Riyadh, Dubai, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Yemen. ALSO. Islam, Judaism and Christianity ALL agree on one thing. Hagar was the mother of Ishmael, the first one who spoke Arabic, the precursor of the Arabs. And Hagar was Egyptian. Folks are COMPLETELY unaware Jesus was born at a time when Julius Caesar & the Romans had only just conquered Egypt and Jerusalem. Arabs wouldnt venture into the Levant for another 600 years.

[@almami1599]

Not “Arabs” but yes Although there were several ethnically Arab Roman emperors who spoke Arabic as a native language including Elagabalus and Philip the Arab (who was in fact the first Christian emperor rather than St. Constantine) and also Nikephoros who would fight the Abbasid Arabs after refusing to pay tribute to the Caliph.

[@GonzaloMoreira84]

Min 1:52 - I didn't know Indo-Europeans were blond and blue-eyed, especially in the Bronze Age (incoming Italic tribes) and earlier stages (Urnfield Culture, Yamnaya). I knew Northern Europeans were ethnocentric. That's for sure. There's no scientific evidence to prove that a Nordic blond phenotype relates whatsoever to Indo-European-speaking peoples.

[@seamusoblainn]

They seems to have had a range, but brown eyes and darker hair was apparently the norm. The Neolithic mixed WHG and Anatolian farmer population of much of Europe seems to have had shifted to become more blonde and blue eyed.

[@GonzaloMoreira84]

​@@seamusoblainn I think the Globular Amphora Culture people (Neolithic), in the Baltic and Scandinavia, were already Nordic blond and blue-eyed (before being sadly massacred by the Indo-European males): kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKjKhoOth997g9k As for the original Black Sea Indo-European tribes (Yamnaya), they looked pretty much like a modern gypsy, or even darker: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIXYh5WrmbuYaZYsi=orzEDjbBlpPCvpIN&t=192 How is it possible that a Nordic blond phenotype relates to Bronze Age Italic tribes? This video's author could have chosen a more neutral European physical look, representing incoming tribes from Central Europe, but went straight for Nordic blond (all sorts of biological adaptations to the Boreal climate... ). From the Black Sea??? I'm tired of this pseudo-scientific ethnocentrism.

[@TheFractalVerse-o3l]

​@@seamusoblainn I read somewhere blue eyes originated from Indo Europeans, but there was a higher proportion of darker eyes among them.

[@nicechock]

basically the hebrew are the ancestors of nordic people. the lower europeans are mixed. some of them were romans and greek and herodians from Esau. Nordic people are of jacob and were enthocentric as the Bible states.

[@seamusoblainn]

@@TheFractalVerse-o3l went looking again. Not 100% clear but it seems to have been from the West Hunter Gatherers for blue eyes, blonde hair may have arisen in the Ancient North Eurasians and flowed into Europe through their partial descendants the Eastern Hunter Gatherers, and the lighter skin alleles may have been a EEF feature, but WHG samples seem to have lightened later on, but that's what I could glean from forums.

[@laughinggiraffe9176]

2:02 I doubt women back then showed that much cleavage, but I guess you need clickbait to make sure people watch and engage.

[@laughinggiraffe9176]

The Romans spoke an Indo-European language and worshipped Indo-European gods, so I doubt it. There might have been substantial middle eastern communities in the Italian peninsula, but that’s because of Roman conquests in the Near East and immigration. Middle Easterners were cheap labor immigrants, like today’s H1B visa holders.

[@TheOtherKine]

Well if that is the case, yes, they were, which means they were also black, since EVERY RACE CAME OUT OF AFRICA. So what is your point? LMAO

[@EricM-gm5wz]

No, not everyone was Arabs😂

[@kamartaylor2902]

Saying Indo-European is misleading

[@iacobus_riparius]

He also mentioned the Yamnayans and used indo-euroepean as a synonymous.

[@kamartaylor2902]

@@iacobus_riparius East Indians are indo- European. So it's vague to say that.

[@ibrohimh9976]

make a video about the origin of Tajiks

[@Paxia]

Tajiks descend from bactrians, sogdians and Scythians

[@h.u.m.a.n.s476]

Is this only Rome coz theres a genetic divide between the north and south.

[@Ancestrallinguist]

Yes around the city

[@stanleyrogouski]

So Virgil was right. They did come from Troy.

[@CanMeh-s9l]

The Agriculture Revolution and more came from The middle east and Anatolia "Today's Türkiye" to Europe. That's all i would say.

[@Erjon-mg6jf]

The most brutal empire in human history and the only one who crucified Jesus Christ

[@nafvol5053]

what about the barbarians ? sure Romans were the most brutal?

[@Erjon-mg6jf]

@nafvol5053 They were because this empire was born after Romulus killed his brother Remus not to mention that they both grew up drinking the milk of the Wolf Lupa and its a symbolic meaning for the whole Roman empire also you have Colosseum where Romans entertained themselves watching Gladiators fighting until death it reminds Fatalities from Mortal Kombat

[@nafvol5053]

@Erjon-mg6jf well i guess the west is the most brutal place to live in nowadays since it is the continuation of the Roman empire

[@laughinggiraffe9176]

Brutal compared to the Mongols or Tamur Lane? I’m not so sure. Anyway, the Roman prefect was reluctant to crucify Jesus until the local Jews insisted.

[@Erjon-mg6jf]

@laughinggiraffe9176 Have you ever wonder why Alexander the great never tried to challenge the Romans? Because he knew he wouldn't be successful he knew well who were the Romans

[@veloro7]

Even the people in current Rome knows that the Romans were from somewhere near Iraq and moved to the peninsula to settle. Slowly they started to dominate their neighbours and finally an empire grew.

[@tobascogladiomatteo4843]

Some yes, some no, sono more than others,some less than others. This is a "dom" question. There were Celts alongside the Po river. Greeks in the south. And plenty other tribes.

[@yazinmusa5450]

Maybe Sicilians?

[@russelsellick316]

Sigh. Rome was cosmopolitan and had slaves from all over the "known world" so now?

[@royleon3525]

Personally I would not believe anything that came from the once magnificent Universities, They are all far Left with views that reflect their teachings.😊

[@marcinwkurw3185]

tltr. NO.

[@altGoolam]

The Mediterranean was a melting pot. Rome might have been fundamentally rooted in the Asian Subcontinent of Europe, but the Empire built on Mediterranean trade became quite mixed. It could have been even more mixed 2000 years ago. 1/8th is not a small percentage.

[@nicechock]

they were mixed even before the Roman empire according to the Bible. the romans and greek originate of Esau and the "children of the east".

[@kamartaylor2902]

This video is such a lie. Everyone has a motive jesus.

[@iacobus_riparius]

Which motive? Which lies?

[@AntiZiocrusader]

Romans called Europeans Barbarians and used animals to predate Christians ✝️ in Arenas. I do not know why Christians are so masochists 😂