The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as being potentially offensive or inappropriate. Viewer discretion is advised.
Please confirm that you wish to view this video.
This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as determined by the video uploader.
To view this video or group, please click here to sign in or sign up and verify that you are of the appropriate age.
This video requires that you log in to verify your age.
Please confirm that you wish to view this video.
This video is unavailable.
"The Normans were always a tiny minority, who succeeded by a complex process of marriage, political alliance and outright conquest." - John France, "The Crusades and the expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714", Taylor & Francis, 2005. Page 27.
The majority of the slaves, conscripts, mercenaries and immigrants in Roman Italy were clearly from North Africa and the Near East, not Europe. Read, for example, Theodor Mommsen or Tenney Frank.
They even had a whole dynasty of "Roman" emperors of such descent (the Severan Dynasty were all Syrians and North Africans.) Funny how they did not have any dynasty of "Germanic" emperors.
To be totally honest I don't care nor challenge your idea that "Italians are brown" it's your misleading data that I disagree with.
SLAVERY
In Ancient Rome slavery was a commodity, like any other goods they acquired their slaves from the nearest resource it makes economic sense, in Italy's case it would be Europe, in Egypts case it would be the Near East and North Africa etc.
The proof of this would be from the Third Servile War aka Spartacus a slave who was most likely Tharacian (Bulgaria), Crixus was from Gaul (France). Plutarch describes Crixus 30,000 slave soldiers as being "Germans" not Africa or Middle East. Spartacus wanted to lead his people to freedom over the Alps which is where most of his slaves soldiers were from, not Africa. CONTINUED
"Julius Caesar once sold the entire population of a conquered region in Gaul, no less than 53,000 people, to slave dealers on the spot": Roman Society, Roman Life
"Gracchus killed or enslaved 80,000 of Sardinia's island's inhabitants."
"Roman senate granted the victorious Roman general in Greece the right to sack 70 cities of Greece: 150,000 persons were enslaved".
Many of the above slaves would have ended up in Italy.
Though of course there would have been slaves in Italy from North Africa and the "Orient" clearly they would have been outnumbered by European slaves. Considering Romans valued the fair skin European slaves over others why import darker slaves by boat from further away when you can sell white slaves at a premium price from the neighboring province, simple economics!! CONTINUED
The 4th and 5th century the Roman Legions were made up of at least 25% Barbarians (Europeans). Barbarian generals included Arbogast, Stilicho and Ricimer, not African or Oriental.
The attacks by barbarians forced the collapse of Rome. Many stayed some left. The Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy was in power for 7 decades plenty of time to share their DNA with the local population. As with the Lombards Vandals Normans Visigoths and many others all Northern European and all there long enough to influence the DNA of the local population, that's what invading forces do when they're not killing of the local DNA.
All these facts above would have far more influence on the local population than a minority of slaves from North Africa and the Orient. Peace Bro
The Normans, again, were nothing but a minority of invaders (you should starting getting the pattern here from all these quotes out of scholarly books on the subject):
"From a demographic point of view, however, the Normans were a minority in terms of numbers, and most of the inhabitants remained almost the same as before." - David Abulafia, "Italy in the Central Middle Ages: 1000-1300", Oxford University Press, 2004. Page 61.
Military/religious invasions are not like immigration. They do not require or necessarily involve huge numbers of people. Most of the population of any given nation are non-combatants.
I
I
I
v
The ease with which the German invader carved out kingdoms for themselves demostrates the extent to which the empire had decayed. The invaders formed a minority — often a very small minority — in the lands they conquered; yet the Roman citizens who lived there offered little resistance." - Jerome Blum, Rondo E. Cameron, Thomas Garden Barnes, "The European world: a history", 1970, page 16.
Get better acquainted with the subject.