Were the Ancient Greeks and Romans White? 

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The majority of them looked southern Euro. Why is this even debated?

No, they were all Chinese.

I can’t wait for the video, “Were the Zulu’s black?” Edit: Damn, looks like I’ll never get that video now. In all seriousness, rest in peace Nick. Such a tragic loss at such an incredibly young age. 🙏🏻

They were checkered: green and pink during winter and magenda and ultra marine during summer. Everybody knows that.

The fact that we have to make videos like this, shows the sorry state of our society, and it’s obsession with race and colour.

I'm a Greek and I've always found this obsession (mainly from Americans) around whether Greeks are white or not somewhat bizarre, and the whole notion kind of forced on us. I've never felt part of a "white" club and have always felt like we are culturally distinct from "white" people regardless of our skin tone which, for a Greek person, has never been a defining factor around whether a person is Greek or not.

They were Europeans. Are Europeans white?

Of course they faced discrimination but Greeks and Italians drank from the "white" water fountains during segregation and went to white schools. Europeans are considered white since they all share common ancestors. Neolithic, hunter-gatherers, Caucuses, Steppe.... all Europeans share these ancestors but in different ratios.

“African” didn’t have the meaning it has today. That’s why Ethiopians were Ethiopians and not Africans.

In the past the Anglosaxon people were considered inferior barbarians by the tanned Mediterranean type: the Romans and Arabian people who gave them everything to the pale people : Algebra, trigonometry, arts,medicine,Alphabet etc

So the short answer is yes they were predominantly white. Longer answer is they were quite diverse.

This video asks if Greeks and Romans were white. You then list off non-Greek and non-ethnically Roman people from the Mediterranean. That has no baring on the ethnicity of the average Greek or Roman. By the way middle easterners and North Africans, even the really tan ones, are still classified as white by the USA census, and at the very least are closely related on a genetic level. After all 1/3rd of European dna came from the Middle East.

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"African" meant from the colony of Africa, wich was the vicinity of Carthage, nothing more. In that region lived a lot of people from the levant. Furthermore all of the Mediteranian was colonized by Greeks, Italians or Phoenicians to the extend what "Colony" meant back then.

Yes they were white.

If only we had technology that could breakdown our genetic DNA code, we could then use it on these ancient skeletons!

Long story short. Yes, they were white, Caucasian, to be precise, with a little variety here and there, but mostly white.

They were olive skinned/brown southern Europeans Mediterranean

Lol if you mean literally yes. Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean people, even North Africans are all white. It’s mostly Scandinavians that are famous for being blonde, and having blue eyes. This is not synonymous with being white, as most people believe...

You're confusing the latter part of the Roman empire with the ethnicity and race of the original Romans. The original Romans were 7 Latin tribes that meandered into the Italian peninsula between 1000 BC and 800 BC. They eventually united all Latins and then conquered all of Italy who's original people were Italic who were also white. This question is so dumb I dont mbow where to even start.

Spencer wants it both ways. He says race is a construct then speaks of non-European as if that automatically means non-white . If race is a construct then the race of these early Levantine and Amazigh people is strictly interpretational. The idea that Levantine and Amazigh aren't "white" is a construct of the modern West. The ancient Egyptians definitely viewed Lybians and Syrians as white/tan not dark or black.

Currently there are three human races - woke, covidians and normal people.

My humble opinion is that the American definition of race is just stupid. The colour of the skin becomes darker in Europe as you go from north to south. Warmer weather, darker skin, as simple as that. I suggest we redefine race according to the colour of our eyes 😂

Yeah, like Italians and Spanish are White despite having been suntanned, as in Caucasians, as in European.

My ancestry is Greek and Cypriot going back generations. My entire family has white to olive skin with brown, blue or green eyes. We all check the “Caucasian” box. Stop this nonsense.

Yes, but to ancient Romans “Africa” was a province on the shore of the Mediterranean. They didn’t use the term like we we use it today, generally meaning sub-Saharan Africa, when referring to peoples. I think the majority of people living in areas controlled by the ancient Roman or Greek Empires would be considered white today. At least, I consider North Africans, Arabs, Israelis, Egyptians, Syrians, Middle Easterners/Persians, and most South Asians, etc. to be caucasian/white, like most Ancient Europeans. Of course, there would be an unknown percentage of black (sub-Saharan) Africans, South and Central Asians present, too.

Yes. Next question

The ancients didn't enslave people based on the colour of their skin so they had no problem with skin colour as a marker of discrimination.

'White' doesn't apply, they were Roman or Greek, which were 'races'in their own context of that time. 'White'' is only a term in opposition to 'black,' which is a term equally dependent on the context of post Reconquista trans Atlantic history. These terms do not translate.

Alexander was described as fair to the point of ruddy. There's zero reason to believe he or the classical Greeks weren't similar. Lay off the wokeness.

Based on a 21st century lens, the answer is yes. Did the ancients care? Not really.

Somewhat dissapointed. I was interested in the genetic make up about the Ancient Greeks and Romans. I.e. Minoans, Mycenaeans, Dorians for the Greeks etc. What were they? The whole presentation was about examples of some Africans and Near Easteners which were or became Greeks and Romans.

Imagine if we were to apply this reasoning consistently: We know the Nubians interacted with the Romans for centuries, this naturally raises the obvious question: Were the Nubians really black? Well, we have lots of evidence showing a strong Roman presence in Nubia, we've even found Roman artifacts there, such as the Meroe head of the emperor Augustus! Therefore, we can conclude the Nubians were in fact multiracial!

A rather woke and misleading interpretation. It isn't true that WASPs didn't consider Italians or Greeks not white or not fully white. This ahistorical interpretation just ignores that "whiteness" isn't one homogenous racial concept. Rather, racism within white populations is as common as racism from whites towards people of darker skin (or the other way round, for argument's sake.) Same goes for inner-black racism in Africa, for instance. Or inner-Asian racism in Asia. Also see Antisemitims, rampant racism against the Irish etc. Spencer McDaniel builds his own strawmen that are then easy to destroy. This is all too typical of "Critical Race Theory". Also, he seems to have little awareness of how the populations in the Levante such as Syria have changed over time. There is also no mention of the fact that Africa did not mean the same thing it does today. It refers to the Roman provinces in Norther Africa, not to the continent. While there were almost certainly more black people living there in Antiquity than today, they were almost certainly not the majority. Rather, the population was a mix of Berber tribes - who seem to have also comprised a relatively large black population -, Middle Eastern and European colonists. So when Augustinus thinks of himself as African, he means something very different from how we understand the term today. I mean it's fine to point out that Romans and Greeks did not have the racial concepts many people have today and that Roman society was multiethnic. (Greek societies were not so much until the Roman conquest, as they mainly precluded foreigners from participating in their political life. Even Greeks born outside one's own city state never had a chance to citizenship in most cases.) But they were both obsessed with ancestry, and there is preciously little discussion of that in this video. McDaniel portraits it as if neither Greeks nor Romans cared much about that, and presumably with the purpose of fitting them into modern political ideologies. This is just historically wrong. When we talk about a Roman Emperor called Philip the Arab - why do you think his origin was mentioned so specifically? Because it was so highly unusual that people noticed and thought it a good idea to mention that. There is also some anecdotal evidence about what we can describe as open racism. One involved Emperor Septimus Severus, whom McDaniels uses as a argument to imply how non-racist Roman society was. As Septimus Severus inspects Hadrian's Wall - probably around 209 or 210 CE - he spots an Ethopian soldier. He remarks upon that observation and reports it as a bad omen that he must die soon. Since he did die in 211, we can assume that the anecdote was ascribed to him posthumously, but it shows us two things, nevertheless: First that black Roman soldiers were rare enough to be noticed and remembered. And secondly that racism was not alien to Romans, even those originally from Norther Africa. Plus, let's not forget that Roman Emperors were basically military dictators, many of whom ascended to the throne in coups d'etats, not through elections - much like Septimus Severus himself. So, an ethnic Arab as Roman Emperor is no evidence that the Romans didn't care about that sort of thing. It just means he had a great enough army. By extension, this means that military careers were possible for outsiders. They were considered good enough to die for Rome, most of the time, but were mostly excluded from Roman political life until very late. Plus we must not forget that Romans also employed auxilliary forces who were raised from local populations and were generally paid less than legionaries. So, yes, in the heyday of the Roman Empire there would have been some black people living throughout the Empire but not very many outside of Rome and a few other bigger cities. Not out of racism, but the Sahara was an even greater barrier to migration than it is today, and there was no direct maritime connection to Ethopia. Middle Easterners or the by definition multiethnical Northern Africans would have been a different story, they would have been plentiful in the bigger cities. As for the criticism of "300": It is a protofascist propaganda piece. That's for sure.There is open racism in how the Persians are portrayed. That part of the criticism is valid. The way the Spartans are shown is clearly protofascist. We can call that racist by extension. But: The Spartans only let pure bred Spartans fight as regular soldiers. Heck, they even enslaved their neighboring Greek tribes and looked down on them in what we can clearly call racism. So not showing a dark skinned Spartan warrior is simply historically accurate and not in itself racist. In short: Things are a bit more complicated than Spencer McDaniel makes them out to be. Projecting one's own political beliefs and concepts into historical settings is never a good idea. It is also bad for the occasionally justified criticism of other people's flawed and often ideologically driven historiography.

For those wondering the answer from a scientific perspective: Ancient Greeks are closely related to modern Greeks, and Ancient Italians are closely related SOUTHERN modern Italians. Both Ancient Italians and Greeks had plenty of pale faces as well as brown European faces. Generally speaking they’re dark white people. If anything, Greeks nowadays are genetically slightly lighter than before due to 14% Slavic admixture. Northern Italians are now much lighter than their ancient predecessors because they’re mostly related to Celtic/Germanic immigrants that arrived after the fall of Western Rome. Southern Italians, if anything, are slightly darker now due to Berber (North African) admixture during the Middle Ages. The city Rome specifically however is a very different story. Rome generally contained Neolithic Mediterranean DNA closely resembling Greeks, but only during the era of the Roman Republic. As soon as the Roman Empire formed, mass Near Eastern immigration exploded into the city quickly reaching one million people, and almost completely replacing the DNA prior. According to a recent Stanford study, the city became genetically 40% Greek, 28% Middle Eastern, 24% Italian, 4% North African, and 4% Celtic. This would likely mean the people there were technically white, however darker than most ancient Italians and Greeks considering at least a third of their DNA is not of European descent. After the city was sacked in 476 AD the majority of its citizens either left or were killed by Goths and widespread disease, and thus the population there was once again genetically replaced. Today the city’s citizens are much lighter than the ancient Romans.

Asking whether ethnic Romans or Greeks were white is like asking is water wet? As an Italian I'm disgusted at how liberal progressive American scholars distort and play with and politicise our history and heritage. Native, ethnic Romans and Greeks were what is deemed white or European, regardless of whether they were tanned, pale or swarthy. It's also irrelevant, that the Romans or Greeks didn't consider themselves as "white" since even the ghostly white Northern Europeans didn't refer to themselves as "white" either. Plus, a tanned skin was considered attractive and masculine on males. Therefore Roman or Greek males had be dark, and avoid being pale for not being "white" as a female. That's why in Roman or Greek paintings males were often depicted tanned and females pale to reflect the gender roles, the outdoors and indoors activities, the contrast between the beauty standards for males and females. However, being too swarthy was according to Cicero the complexion of a slave. The other question- was the Roman Empire multicultural? Short answer- yes. Did the Romans depicted Non-Europeans or so-called POC in their art. Of course. But this fact remains, the Founders and Fathers of the Roman Empire were Italics who fit the bill of "whiteness", and who were as European as any Celts, Germanic tribes or Vikings. In fact that Italics had ties to Celts and shared the same ancestors who hailed from Central Europe.

Bottom line: they WERE white.

They were black, and ancient chinese and japan were black. In europe white people didn't exit when black people came to europe. World know about this , first people in all world was ancient black people.

They weren’t white or black, when you look at the ancient wall paintings they had olive skin ✊🏽 not ✊🏻 or ✊🏿

Well, there are software packages that turn artwork into photo-realistic faces. The ancient Greek and Roman busts turn out to give faces that you would see in Athens and Rome today. What a surprise! LOL!

Question: Greeks and Romans white or not? The answer I expected:Yes or no Spencer: 30 minutes nonstop blabbering

For someone who claims to know a lot about Greece, she doesn't pronounce Greek words very well... She needs to learn about diphthongs.

Long story short: they knew they were white, but they didn't have any serious hangups about it.

Pre video knowledge: the Greeks referred to themselves (the common people) and Anatolians (Asians) as white. They referred to others as brown (mostly from the south) or blonde (usually from the north. However they also referred to Achilles and Agamemnon along with other illiad heroes as well as some gods as blonde)

The European Continent was Caucasian. The languages were German, Celtic and Italic. The discussion here, speaks of migration from other countries, but that did not change the fact that the peoples of Ancient Rome or Greece were Caucasian.

Again, Spencer is assuming that if you had ancestors from N. Africa, that you would have been very dark. The peoples of N. Africa are mainly of ancient Berber (caucasian) ancestry. During the Roman period in the larger port cities, it would not have been uncommon to have any combination of Italic, Gallic, Iberian, Greek, Thracian, Illyrian, Syrian, Phoenician, or N. African ancestry.

The idea of the white race only exists in contrast to the idea of a black race. In old times there were many groups of people with unique cultural identities. People would be identified not as white or black but as one of these many ethnic groups.

Hollywood is somewhat to blame on modern perceptions of our actual racial history. Royalty in Roman movies always have a British accents...

“People of colour probably made up” give me a break. Your use of white is pathetic. How about Caucasian. People that use your language are obviously racist and race focused. Ancient Greeks were Caucasian same with the Romans. Nearly all their art portrays them being Caucasian. And yes it’s obvious that the majority of the Roman Empire would likely contain non Caucasian peoples since they controlled so much territory that they didn’t colonize but occupied. Next your gonna tell us that the ancient Egyptians were blacks and not Caucasian/Middle Eastern.

The problem with this video is that it is based on the nineteenth-century conception of whiteness, developed among Protestant northern Europeans, which influenced American society until just a few years ago, and which in the video seems to be accepted by both the two speakers. Before you ask whether the Romans and Greeks were white, you should ask yourself why even today a society such as America's is deeply racist and based on nineteenth-century ideas of whiteness and race. A first-year archaeology student knows that frescoes prove nothing, because in the ancient world there existed for a few centuries, before Hellenism, the artistic convention of portraying men with reddish, very dark, tanned skin and women with light skin. It had nothing to do with actual somatic features, but with the mentality of the ancient world, in which men spent a lot of time outside the home and women remained within the domestic hearth.

No and we’re still not white we only became white a.k.a. Caucasian on the US census after the 1950s. Do you know how they make a big deal how Black people are allowed to move in white neighborhoods in the 1960s well literally five years before that we were just able to move in these white neighborhoods think about that? Also people don’t realize that Italians were the second largest group of people to be lynched in the United States and the biggest mass lynching in the United States is history and there was a lot of people Lynched in this country was Italian Americans 11 of them in New Orleans during the 1890s

Next week: Were the vikings white?

They were White.

12:31 most Europeans that speak on ancient history try their hardest to not use the word “black” out of fear of backlash when addressing the evidence of people darkskin people being associated with people incorrectly viewed as “black” in current day. Some things never change

30 minutes of blather to dodge around the issue. Grow a spine. Ethnic Greeks are Caucasian and are white European. Get over it.

Right . . So race is a "Social Construct" ... Just like gender

In my experience skin color is depended on the time we spent in the sun, and the amount of copper in the local food. I'm Danish and as white as it gets, but my aunt is as brow as a Tamil, because she live on a boat for half of the year. The idea abut classifying groups of people based on skin color are just stupid.

Everything argued here is entirely true, the question of whether Romans and Greeks were "white" is completely anachronistic, and depictions of these cultures as monolithically composed of people Americans would call "white" is false. I just wish McDaniel would not repeat the falsehood that there was a time when Italians and Greeks were not considered "white" in the US. This is a back projection of the American 1960's conception of whiteness, meaning a full member of the politically and culturally dominant ethnic group of US society, onto the reality of the pre-war period. Italians, Greeks, Jews, Irish and Slavs were all viewed by society as white, but also inferior to those who were referred to as "Native Americans"; Protestant people of older immigrant stock.

Guys, first of all, you are confusing the Romans with the Greeks, don't...!!! Second, you analyze the Greek nation without having a Greek researcher present, you never brought one...Bring one so I can take you seriously...You know nothing about Greek culture and it's just speculation...

define white first If you mean white like the Central and Nothern Europeans ( Britons, Germans etc) i think not. The Greeks and Romans belong to the European Mediterranean Nations. They have darker skin than the Central and Nothern European Nations because of the different weather conditions (sunny days)

The answer is YES!! I don't need an expert to tell me that. This is a ridiculous question. Never in doubt. This guy must be a real genius😅

This question of whether the Greeks considered themselves as white could not be more stupid! It is like asking whether the Germans of the same era considered themselves as white! It is not a question that any of them would have considered but that doesn't mean that they weren't all white people of european ancestry which defines what white people are!! Murals and statues of ancient Roman and Greece clearly show them to be white with the women with paler skin because they worked more inside whereas the men worked more outside.

Short answer yes they were. Were all Roman and Greek citizens white? Maybe not but all native romans and greeks were. The end

Are the speakers in this video white? They appear more pink than white..btw were Zulus actually black? LOL

So you are saying that the ancient civilizations were more civilized than present day US. Mediterranean people are Mediterranean people! They are not Scandinavian looking, not English, not Nigerian, not Chinese. North African Egyptian, Berber and Lebanese/Syrian people are consider Caucasian even in the US. How do you think Syrian or Tunisian people look like? LL Cool J?

If u want to know how ancient Greeks and Romans looked like, just go and spend Holliday there. They are and were Mediterranean Caucasians.

So this channel is going woke/SJW/CRT now??!! Bye, Felicia.

So how exactly do we define white?

I enjoy the info on DNA and other historical content but the "Race" thing is putting me off.

Obviously. What else would they be?

Ethiopia didn't exist as a country back then like we know it now. Aethiopis is a Hellenic word used by Hellens to describe the people living South of Egypt because of there darker skin complexion. Aethiopis means Burnt Face. Memnon and Andromeda are NOT described having African features or characteristics. They are born in the land of the Aethiopis people. Hellenic mythology like every mythology, goes beyond the borders of there lands. Memnon and Andromeda are Based on Hellenic mythology related to Hellenic culture. Memnon's title is. Memnon Hero of Troy king OF THE Aethiopis people.

How does the existence of people making contributions in many areas, from Phrygia, Lycia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Syria, North Africa to the Mediterranean, who lived in European political entities change something about the existence of the Greeks and Romans? How does individuals of other ethnicities acquiring citizenship or being composed as subjects change the status that they were not Roman, Greek, Macedonian?

Why on earth would you interview a random 3rd year student as any kind of authority on this question? I know you want to milk these headlines but come on, you're butchering truth for the sake of making a couple bucks here. This question, which really isn't and never was in question, can be answered by simply flashing a graph of a PCA test of modern and ancient populations.

Romans had rosy skin (light pink). Greeks also had rosy skin. They were not white. In fact, the only white people were northern Germanians, like the Anglo-Saxons, and some Scandinavian tribes as they were pale (white). But for the vast majority of Europeans they are either pink, peach or yellow.

As someone from Greece the Greeks from the islands like Crete, Aegina, etc are quite dark skinned and have black curly hair, while northern Greeks close to the borders of Europe are very light skinned and blonde. But they are all Greek

I am Greek, this video is pushing agendas. Greek civilization was 100% white. Having a tiny minority of Africans living in Greece doesen't mean that Greeks were multicultural. If you think they were, show us the equivalent non-Greek. Show us the foreign influences in politics, arts, architecture, sports, theater, literature, mythology, philosophy and sciences. In Ancient Greece one had to be a native to the city to be able to get involved in politics. Not even fellow Greeks were allowed. Zero diversity. Showing us a piece of art portraying a black person and ignoring the bulk of sculptures portraying white people shows malice. Nobody says that the Greeks didn't come in contact with other nations. Zenon had a Phoenician father and a Greek mother. Having a noticeably dark skin tone (like a Middle Eastern person and not like a Sub-Saharan African) actually shows how white the Greeks were. You realize that North Africans are not black? Very arrogant of you to talk about religion when you obviously have no knowledge at all. Odyssey and Iliad influenced by Gilgamesh???? Hesiod to what???? Have you even read these books? Since I have, I can tell you that their subjects are completely different. Dear U.S.Americans, please solve your problems. In the meanwhile, please do not export them. This video was an insult to history.

These discussions always turn into semantics babble in order not to answer the question straight forward. We know the ancients didn't perceive of race the same way we do now. Strange they don't go through these same gymnastics when it comes to anci my China or ancient Nubia or medieval Mali, despite the fact that there was some degree of mixture in all these places.

Why cannot be Greeks and Romans white? Who Knows? I am Spaniard and my father´s family side is very fair and my mother´s family side is olive skin with freckles. People have assumptions that Spaniards are dark skin and that is not true

But wasn't Achilles and Alexander the Great described as having blonde hair and blue eyes??

I thought this was a lady with long hair!!!

To understand the genetic origins of ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, use DNA testing. Do not guess.

You do know that the obsession with race, is mainly an american thing?

You Americans are boring, obsessed with skin color. You are collectively pathological. The Romans were those who worked for the good of Rome. So the images painted on wood of Fayyum inhabitants that you show are actually images of Romans, even if their genetics were that generated by the fusion of Egyptians and Hellenes. However, I would like to point out that the Caucasoid peoples (not Caucasians, the Caucasians are only Armenians and Georgians) include the Indo-Europeans, the Semito-Hamitics (Afro-Asians), including the Ethiopians and Somalis, the Ugro-Finns, the ancient Europeans. (like the Sardinians, the Etruscans, and the Basques), the Anatolian populations. Etc. Voi statunitensi siete noiosi, ossessionati dal colore della pelle. Siete collettivamente patologici. I Romani erano coloro che operavano per il bene di Roma. Quindi le immagini dipinte su legno di abitanti del Fayyum che mostri sono effettivamente immagini di Romani, anche se la loro genetica era quella generata dalla fusione tra Egizi ed Elleni. Faccio comunque presente che i popoli Caucasoidi (non Caucasici, i Caucasici sono solo gli Armeni e i Georgiani) comprendono gli Indo-Europei, i Semito-Camitici (Afro-Asiatici), compresi gli Etiopi e i Somali, gli Ugro-Finnici, gli Europei antichi (come i Sardi, gli Etruschi e i Baschi), le popolazioni Anatoliche. Eccetera.

In Ancient Egypt also women were e portrayed with a rather white skin while men were deeply tanned...I think it has more to do with just the way of life of different genders possibly accentuated by culture.

Short answer to save time: Yes, yes they were.

This video was bullcrap. That woman kept deflecting the main question with political correctness. The question should have been, did Italians and Greeks from that period resemble what Greeks and Italians look like today? And this was not answered in the video.

Dumb question - I clicked through because I could not believe that anyone would really make a video about this. I've watched the first 5 minutes and I am bailing. I am so tired of Americans projecting and exporting their insecurities about their own race politics onto the rest of the West and its history. Please sort yourselves out and leave us out of it.

the question was, were the greeks and romans white, not did the greeks and romans think of themselves as white. The Greeks and Romans were a mix of Mediterranean and northern Europeans. Romans more so than Greeks. they both spoke an indo european language. which suggests there was an invasion by the steppe nomads who mixed with the population at one point. perhaps in time the anatolians expanding back into Greece.

The whole concept of "white" was not even invented until the 1600s. The Baroque era... The classical Greek and Roman cultures had no concept of being "white". Race was a fluid thing. A natural born Greek could be raised in the Roman culture, and so become part of the "Roman race". An Egyptian could also join the Roman race. As could a Persian. Or anyone. A Briton could become an Egyptian. A Pict could become a Roman. Race was not a fixed and final thing.

Our idea of Greek and Romans being white DOESN'T come from Hollywood movies; it comes from their own sculptures and paintings. More recently, the Pompeii walls are full of art with white people

Race is not a Social Construct, academia however, most certainly is.

Who said Syrian is non-European ancestry?

Well, Syria was part of the Greek empire, but many early Greeks were from Asia Minor.

And her rediculous need to make the movie 300 racist.. when the director used various racial groups for the Persians because at the time it was a giant empire that did encompass many different cultures and races

Were the Greeks and Roman's white? The answer should be " Yes or No" You don't need a long essay.

With such a silly title I hesitated to watch but it was actually quite good.

Yes and no they were definitely not Anglos, Saxons, Anglo Saxons, Germanics, Normans, Or Vikings

You can get into all these politically motivated reasons why people thought the Greeks and Romans where white or not, but I think the main reason why people think the Greeks and Romans where white is because most of the statues from those times appear to have European features...Pretty much that simple.

You people have so much education and can't tell the color from white or red your worldly knowledge is foolish.