Are western people a combination of germanic genes and Mediterranean foundations ?
To answer your question you have to look at how Western civilization was built. The Celts and Greeks were contemporaries and had far too much crossover of ideas to have not had regular contact with each other and influences on each other. The Greeks also had Indian and Arabic influences as well. Especially after they conquered Egypt and set up a land of scholars there. The Romans built their army to fight Celts who were a constant invader. The Romans borrowed heavily from Greek culture as a basis for their society. Carthage was their enemy and Carthagenian culture was eschewed. The Romans however soon found themselves relying heavily on Germanic, Celtic and Eastern Steppes peoples as the bulk of their army. Spain for example saw few actual Roman citizens. The Romans did however export first Latin and second Christianity to the rest of Europe. Roman culture however was not exported with great success. Remember Roman culture was a brutal culture. To be considered weak was the ultimate in
Related Questions
- There are something biological difference between the different classes of people such as negroes, mongoloid etc etc. Now tell me one thing, among human being, which class is the most biologically developed?
- Are western people a combination of germanic genes and Mediterranean foundations ?
- Are people from Afghanistan considered to be Mediterranean?
