the+idea+of+race+originate

Race is such a popular and prominent topic globally today. But where did it all start? When did it begin? Was there a certain cause? My research shows all the different aspects of where the idea of race began and when barrier came up between civilizations. The specific civilizations that race was a prominent topic in was Egypt, areas in Europe, Mesopotamia and the Native Americans.

Racism is the belief that race is of certain differences of human characteristics. In the cases of racism, certain groups may be denied rights or benefits, or get preferential treatment. Racial discrimination typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, although anyone may be discriminated against on an ethnic or cultural basis or skin color. However, most people think that race was created because of differences between countries and wars. [] []

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From the period of the ancient world to the Reformation, the racial differences were considered to be between the civic and barbarous. After the Reformation, Augustine's control was replaced with civilizations that came from different types of writings. From this, a racial background based upon blood, climate, soil and language began to form. The first traces of the modern idea of race are found in the hermeticism (religious and philosophical beliefs from Egyptian writings) and medieval cabalists (oldest and influential groups in the Order of Hermes). Earlier, the difference between races revolved more around the differences of genetics and physiology. After it was decided that most people have similar genetics, then the idea of race moved on to the color of skin and nationality. Religion was a major figure in race. Even though most civilizations tried to maintain the same religion, but there were some barriers which could have led to certain aspects of race. In the 19th and 20th century many race notions were popular and persistent and are still strong today.===== //From __Race: An Idea of the West__ by Ivan Hannaford.//

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Slavery is a topic that relates to race in many different ways. Throughout much of early history, societies enslave others because of war or debt, but not because of physical characteristics or natural inferiority. However, this then made people associate race with enslavement which grew to America during the 1800's in which time African-Americans were used as slaves and that segregation has created a barrier between different us which is still there today.=====

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Racism also dates back to the Ancient Greeks who differentiated people by culture and language, but not physical differences. In fact, Africans can be accepted as Greek citizens if they follow through with the culture. Greece was a place, that there was enslavement not based on physcial appearance which gave everybody and equal oppurtunity for people to become slaves.=====

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This provides a racial timeline of of when race was discovered in the BCE's and how it has evolved to what it is today throughout the centuries. Click on the Explore Timeline button to view it. [] To learn more about race, this website provides alot of information about the origination of race and about certain subtopics of race as well. []=====

Some also say that race was first recognized when the Europeans came over to America and saw the Native Americans. They saw a difference between them and the Native Americans which they had never encountered on their trade routes before. Discovering the Native Americans opened up a different type of hiearchy which consisted of different could be considered to be racial. Hiearchy based on intelligence, skin color, leadership, development and financial status, or social ranking was the foundation for the idea of race, in many civilizations which spread to a global idea of race. Based on earlier history, race was a division between cilvilizations with language, blood and area of living, but that idea of race expanded to what it has become today, being based on skin color.

In terms of Mesopotamia, race appeared to be prominent around the social hiearchy such as slaves, women, and men of different occupations. The figures depicted in the Royal Standard of Ur show how the levels of different occupations result in your status in that society. Each different part shows a level of social hiearchy, whether it is with the patriarchs, servants, scribes, or artisans. This artifact in some ways, shows the differences between people in the same civilization which could have led to the idea which is now known as racism. However, the barrier was not just between skin color, it was also between occupation and social status. To learn more about the Royal Standard of Ur, click on the image.

__What I would like to study next:__ Carrying through with the research from the origins of race, I would like to look deeper into the similarities between civilizations to discover the root cause for racial divisions.