Greek+and+Roman+times

 **how can someone say race doesn't exist when universally race is classified by skin color?**

There is a controversy on race in more recent times, but in ancienct Egypt they didn't really notice or think about race. They did their classifications more off of wealth. It is stated that the concept of "pure race" is incoherent...Meaning that the concept of "pure race" has no logical or meaningful connection. However how can that be if we, as in the people around the world, classify people as blacks, whites, asians and so on. That has a meaning to us that we conncet with people's skin color. When we look at someone our brain automatically thinks that person is black, white, asian..so on and not oh that person is this race because they came from this origin and has these genes. Afrocentric Hisotriography tends to insist that ancienct Egyptians were a black civilization. Some modern scholars believe the ancient Egyptians were "mediterranean peoples, neithere Sub-Saharan nor Caucasian white peoples whose skin was adapted for life in a subtropical environment.

Very good question that was asked on this first webstie i used:: " Did God create humanity "in His own image," or was our species itself the product of physical change and adaptation no less than the rocks, plants, and animals of this planet?" Pretty much its asking did God create race or have we created it ourselves over time? It also states that, "with civilization came race." Each person might have their own way to describe what race is..but universally we know that people classify others by skin color or skin tone.

An interesting fact I found was that the word barbarian comes from the Greek word barbar which means person who studders, is unintelligible, or does not speak Greek. Foreigners including Africans can be accepted as citizens if they can speak and adapt the language, customs, and style.


 * __Rome__**

Slavery in ancient rome differed from its modern forms, for it was not based off race. Cruelty was still very common however. There were a good handfull of slaves during the Roman Empire and most were foreigners, but they could also be prisoners of war, sailors captured and sold by pirates, or slaves bought outside Roman territory. During hard times it was common for families to sell their children into slavery for money. While the [|Romans] had clear notions about non-Romans, other cultures, and even different body types and facial features, they lacked the notions of race that developed in Europe and the Americas from the fifteenth century to the present.

pictures that we use today to represent race by skin color and tone::so why isn't race based off color?










 * as a conclusion**:: i believe that back in ancient Rome and Greek times there was not a specific way they classified race. The laws they made and the way the society was seperated was based off of social classes and higher power, not off of race. I beleive that each individual has their own way of defining race but that world wide, we look at race as skin color. Now matter what you research and say what race really is, we have developed a cultural to automatically think about race. I believe this can change and that we can all look at eachother as being one and not all being diverse.

After what i have found i would like to compare the views of race from ancient times to more recent times like when Martin Luther King Jr. was arround, trying to change the world and people, to present views of race. I think it might even be interesting to take a survey on what a handful of random people think about race and how it affects our politcal and economical events that take place.

AnnBibHarman