The Arch of Septimius Severus, portal to ancient Rome 

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He was a black man.

@@truthhitman7473 And ?

@@realshitdawg1 You don't like it that's why you responded like a disgruntled racist.

@@truthhitman7473 he wasn’t 😂

No, he is an Arab and he is proud of that.. It was written on the Triumphal arch in Rome that he is ARABICO .

Fun fact: Caracalla means The Fortress of GOD in Arabic

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There would be more art and technology to behold if the catholic church hadn't destroyed so much of the splendors of ancient Rome.

@@johna.4334 what baseless thing you just said. Rome is the city with the most Roman monuments thanks to the Popes who often stopped citizens from dismantling the monuments by transforming them into churches. (exemples: the Colosseum, Pantheon) If you go to see all the other Italian cities of Roman there is nothing left. the few things left are some temples transformed into churches or some theaters, amphitheaters and bridges. The latter survived because they were used for the same purposes for the following centuries. Then you will discover that Rome thanks to the Papal State has been one of the least conquered and destroyed Italian cities over the centuries. And it must be remembered that all over the world cities have lived through different periods, different rulers, different architectural tastes and different urban plans, in which things in ruins were demolished to make room for the new. Just think of Paris, Milan, Vienna, Berlin, London and all the cities in the world. So we should thank the Popes who over the centuries have found interest in ancient art and buildings so as to maintain or transform them. Because being a religion they could have said it's all pagan let's throw it all down. And today you wouldn't have all the Roman statues in museums, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the baths, the triumphal arches, the cerimonial columns, the Egyptian obelisks in Rome and much more. So I don't know what history you studied at school but before shooting sentences one should inquire more

@@johna.4334 it was not because of the Catholic Church, but because.. people. The Roman cities were used as stone/marble quarries by the locals EVERYWHERE, including in places where the Catholic Church never existed

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Septimius Severus Was a Spaniard 🇪🇸

@@Endgame707 what r u talking about he is north african

Yes but north african not sub Saharan african so he isn't black

@@Endgame707 He was Arab, Septimius Severus ARABICUS

Did you look? We have videos on both the arch of Titus and the arch of Constantine.

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Arab, first Arab emperor

@@user-lq7qj8ue1x The Arabs came from their Arabian desert to Libya only 500 years later during the Islamic conquests. This territory was inhabited by the ancestors of the Berbers and the natives of Rome and Greece. Libya had almost no black sub-Saharan or Arab population

@Za Warudo man ,the pheonicians are from middle east

@Za Warudo smal tribe LMAO ;they were a kingdom ,and majority of them fleed to the maghreb cuz of the assyrian invasio, read history ,berber

@Za Warudo The Phoenicians you mean.

@Za Warudo In the UK they call him a Black African for Black history month.

@Za Warudo It is what they seem to do.Go well.I enjoy learning real history.

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