Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "What It Was Like to Be a Roman Slave" video.

  1. I'd say, slavery wasn't dependant on race until very, very recently. All empires of the past enslaved pretty much anyone they could, often even their own people.
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  2. ​ @AB-zl4nh  Yes and no. Like for any other population group we can pick margins for definition of a "race" voluntarily, yet these criteria for a particular group can be pretty solid if we talk not from racist point of view to justify slavery, supposed "superiority" and social injustice, but health issues like ability to protect people from ultraviolet rays leading to skin cancer or synthesise vitamin D, or being prone to death by something seemingly harmless as pollen of legumes, or take something recent like Covid-19 - it's more deadly to Eastern Asians than Africans, or ability to metabolize alcohol or consume excessive doses of vitamin A without harm to oneself etc. Scientific definitions a "a race" are plenty, just like there are dozens of systems for blood types, depends on particular criteria. In some aspects "white race" includes everyone from Atlantic coast of Europe all the way to Northern India (yes, that includes Jews, Arabs, Persians and other "brown people", I don't think racists would like this one 😆), while in system, which was used in Soviet anthropology, even Europeans were divided in numerous smaller races.
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  3.  @Erin-Thor  Yes, and? Is this just a whataboutims?
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  4.  @Erin-Thor  Yes, and sort of irrevelant at that, since it neither contradicts nor adds on what's already been said.
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  5.  @kenstravels4922  More like Portugese discovered a whole ready-to-use African slave trade network and connected to it, some time later a few other European empires joined in. That was in the Western coast, meanwhile on the Eadt coast Islamic slave trade was running smoothly well before that and ended after Europran one was long over.
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  6. Spartacus led the Third Servile war, previous two happened just decades earlier, but yes, Spartacus uprising was the most serious of them, taking place near Rome itself, while previous two were localised to Sicilia. Besides in the same century there were also several Roman civil wars, so it's not like the life in the Rome as republic and later empire was all that stable and without any turmoil.
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