Apparently they looked like me

No doxx

https://youtu.be/57uIcLiOBJM
This will be the intro video played at CPAC. I can think of a few ways we’d improve it

@ExternalPepsi I've heard that they were kind of an Alpine people, with light hair and features. Could be wrong, though.

I’ve heard Roman gene was replaced too. @Bjorn - MD

@Bjorn - MD I believe I read before that the genetics of the Italian penninsula haven't changed in the past 2500 years or so. So the ethnic Italians of today are the same people as the Romans of 2000 years ago, roughly.

Huh. Certainly plausible. I mean, they've always been pretty adjacent to Semitic peoples, whose appearance seems to have remained fairly static over the millennia.

Well, except for the Ashkenazim , Sephardim, and Beta Israel, obviously.

To be fair, the genetic make up of Semitic people has actually changed quite a bit since the Islamic conquests and the Arab Slave Trade and during the time of the Romans, they were more adjacent to pre Islamic Berbers, more so than Semitic people from the Levant/Middle East

You're just determined to anthropology-cuck me all day, aren't you...? 😏

@Virgil: 🤓☝ "ACKshually..."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDvpTMABOQ

I love these

@Bjorn - MD I admit I'm a bit of a sperg when it comes to the Romans haha

Lol

No worries.

https://archive.fo/wbpZD

https://i.redd.it/mdw4i92bb7j21.jpg

@ThisIsChris Maybe he didn't wanna put any excessive mileage on it, lol.

Northern italians are still related with original romans with some visigoth flava

Southern italy got islam'd (and then normand) pretty hard

Norman conquest of sicily during crusade period is fascinating

@Perihelion - CA Only Sicily and a small part of Calabria were ever conquered by Muslims tho, the rest of Southern Italy was never conquered

Most lasting impact of crusade era was actually conquest of key islands like crete and sicily which opened up trade and empowered italian city states

Southern italy was not conquered but was invaded and slave raided a lot

Norman Gang pull up, we should've conquered France too

Uh, oh. @Virgil's got @Perihelion - CA in the crosshairs, lol.

You bet, I'm on a rampage today lol

>Normans should have conquered France
🤔

The Normans were the French fam

Northern french if we want to be <:avtism:359037377919844352>

Hence “Normandy”.

@Perihelion - CA you sound pretty jealous of the Roman nose

Glorious

Imagine not having a Roman nose

I have a Greek nose

Powerful Nose 10/10 would honk

Mine or the Roman guy

My nose