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Ancient History Devoid of Racism
Skot the Sanguine:
--- Quote from: Swordmaster on March 10, 2012, 12:05:44 PM ---I believe older civilizations were more into glorifying their own race than just bashing a certain group.
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I agree completely, though often many think that in order to do the former you have to do the latter. Here in New York the fans of each baseball team usually loathe the other team...Mets vs Yankees. Personally, I think it is stupid and although I am a Met fan, I have nothing against the Yankees.
Archonsod:
--- Quote from: Petr on March 10, 2012, 12:04:03 AM ---They managed to create one of the largest contiguous empires but didn't become racists so to speak. I mean of course they thought they were the "sons of mars" and all that pagan gods stuff, but these were mainly cultural and religious, not really racial, beliefs.
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Yes they were. In fact culture and religion was usually what they used to distinguish race.
--- Quote ---Back then they didn't make the association that humans could be divided into races like other animals.
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Erm, dividing humanity into separate races goes back to the Egyptians, around a thousand or so years before the Greeks.
--- Quote ---IMO it were their republican values that kept them together, the idea that a man's worth what he can put forth.
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And the Helots were just incapable of 'putting forth' as much as others? :roll:
gaham1:
Didn't romans burn jews in the colliseum for being jewish?
Skot the Sanguine:
And Christians...many of our earliest martyrs were made so through sacrifices in the coliseum.
Gilgameshismyhomey:
Religion ain't the same as race. With Jews, at least they were a ethnicity.
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