Romans & non Romans: Ethnicity in the Ancient World, pt. 3

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The last in our the first three videos in this series. Here we finish the introduction, and then turn to Egypt.
SOURCES
People’s of the Roman World, Boatwright
SPQR, Beard
Romulus’ Asylum, Dench
Rome: An Empire of Many Nations, Price et. al.
Ethnicity in the Ancient World: Did it matter?, Gruen

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@hormonuspubertetus5230 2 жыл бұрын

I sure hope the algorithm will give you the time of day, you’re a quality info dump

@TheFallofRome 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@hyokkim7726 2 жыл бұрын

06:30 Similar thinking, with some of the Korean kingdoms, some of the closest bodyguards for the king were drawn from Jurchens, notably, sons of the tribal chieftains, sometimes given Korean nationality, a rank in the Korean military. King was always in competition with the Korean nobles. He needed someone he could depend on.

@Fatherofheroesandheroines 2 жыл бұрын

Race is such a complicated topic but good of you to cover it. Not that I would know but I'm sure it was a headache for the Romans to figure out who was who in the massive empire.

@hiddenhist 2 жыл бұрын

No idea how you're so prolific. Good stuff.

@TheFallofRome 2 жыл бұрын

The secret is having no social life outside of a wife, two cats, and a dog!

@hiddenhist 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFallofRome all one needs! The issues of artwork and representation remind me quite a bit about the dynamics of ethnic identity and in (pre-Greco/Roman) Egypt, where there was this complex dance between depicting assimilated foreigners as as "Egyptian" in some contexts and "not" in others. So, you may have the same person portrayed very differently in two different pieces. Gets even more messy because of the direct cultural and personal exchange between Egypt and neighboring regions - the adoption of hairstyles and wigs from Nubia, the influx of peoples from Libya, and so on. On a separate but related note, how much do we know about movement from city to city? If I'm in Alexandria, how likely am I to move to Carthago Nova? Syene? Antioch? Rome?

@TheFallofRome 2 жыл бұрын

@@hiddenhist yeah we’ll be talking about the art when I upload the videos on Egypt. To answer your question, I don’t know off the top of my head but a quick google turned up this paper that might be of interest www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4749291/

@lt8395 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, very interesting series.

@TheFallofRome 2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

@peterrodgers2709 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting breakdowns, really enjoying the videos, keep them coming.

@ProvencaLeGaulois 2 жыл бұрын

Is the series on Global History definitely on hold? Thanks a bunch for these :)

@TheFallofRome 2 жыл бұрын

I have to rework something on that. It’s coming back soon

@ProvencaLeGaulois 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFallofRome sorry to have been bugging you about that, thank you very much!

@cruznix4741 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like there’s a theme here. That being that much like todays concepts of whiteness and blackness Roman and non Roman was a social/political tool that could be expanded or contracted to suit whatever situation the current power base needed

@TheFallofRome 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! It’s a theme that’s going to run through all fifteen videos