Message from @Perihelion - CA
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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..."
I love these
@Bjorn - MD I admit I'm a bit of a sperg when it comes to the Romans haha
Lol
No worries.
@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
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
You'd have to post your nose. Is this nose posting hours?
Check out @UN_News_Centre’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/UN_News_Centre/status/1101158367832272897?s=09
not going to lie to you, you're looking pretty hot
Do you have the nose of an attractive Greek Lady