So, when we imagine the ancient Romans, particularly the ruling elites is this how we should imagine them? Where the ancient Romans Nordic? Did they belong to the Nordic phenotype?
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The idea that the ancient Romans belonged to the Nordic Phenotypic type is part of a theoretical system which generally speaking was born in Germany and fostered by the likes of Hans Friedrich Karl Gunther. We are specifically referring to the set of theories called Nordicism.
The ancient Romans being Nordic, with a stronger enphasis on the ruling elite, is an easy claim to attack. To address it we'll utilize a systemic data analysis model in order to evaluate the coherence of such investigation system, and its sub routinse. And whether or not an argument is contradictory in its premises once looked upon throgh the perspective of iconographic, literarly and material evidence, including DNA analysis. We will call this a logic investigation sequence and consisntence check criteria.
Intro
1 - The Flux of Time
2 - What is Nordicism?
3 - The Hypothesis
4 - An Academically Weak Case
5 - The so Called Roman Nordic Elite
6 - The True Emperors' Looks
7 - The Myth of the Blonde Prostitutes
8 - Ancient Regional Genetic Substructure and Continuity
Conclusion
The Flux of Time
The past is a dynamic continuum. As humans stride across the centuries, a complete ethnic monolithic fulcre of civilization, particularly when core societies become multi cultural due to foreign individual relocation patterns, conquest, citizenship extention and other factors, is difficult to identify, but it's usually present.
Power, success and wealth attracts immigration. The city of Rome also attracted people from various regions throughout the Mediterranean basin and a certain degree of cosmopolitanism would have been encountered in the city. However, at least when it comes to Italian Romans, a long lasting continuum of the genetic fabric of the population appears to be demonstrable regardless of barbaric invasions, slave influx and other external demographic pressures. The imprint these phenomena had on the original population chains in the peninsula is not zero but was never overwhelming.
However a claim such as "the Romans were Nordic before immigration and foreign influx within the population ethnic strata" requires a statistically significant core of identifiable factors, in order to be proven. A strong discrepancy between objective data and theoretical postulation will have to be negligible for the hypothesis to stand.
Moreover in order to determine the ethnic consistency of the Italian Roman people we will make use of several resources. Literary evidence, iconographic evidence, genetic evidence. Then we'll formulate a consistent hypothesis based on the examination of all reliable information.
Political groups on all sides often make use of vague statements as a form of mass manipulation, due to the general lack of resource access and higher understanding of these historical concepts by the masses. Let's rectify that.
Furthermore, if the Romans were indeed Nordic, we would also need to see a high level of Germanic socio linguistic interference and cultural heritage retention.
What is the integer which would correctly describe the phenomenon. One step at a time.
What is Nordicism?
Although on this video we are specifically focusing on the claims concernig the Ancient Romans, I'd like to spend a word or two to frame our discussion when it comes to what Nordicism is and what it claimed.
Nordicism as a school of thought was born between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century within several cultural circles, in Europe and America, having among its main proponents, the American Madison Grant, the Frenchman De Gobineau and the German Eugen Fischer.
According to this ideology, the Nordic Phenotypes were intellectually and culturally superior to all others. The Nordic type being superior to all also meant that no other “lesser” racial groups had been able to do as much historically; and so the wake of this hypothesis the Roman empire becomes a problem you see. Because how can a Southern European empire be capable of such splendor if they were lesser beings?
Gunther in his "Rassenkunde Europas" translated in English as The Racial Elements of European History, Attributes the creative force of history to the Nordic element within the ethnic fabric of mankind, and within a picture that tries to claim ethnic appropriation of all the winners, of course the Romans would be included.
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