Romans are known for being short

Jimijam

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I DONT KNOW WHERE THESE GUYS GOT THEIR INFO BUT IM GUESSING HOLLYWOOD . AND I TELL YOU ACHILLES DID NOT HAVE BLUE EYES AND BLOND HAIR. AND NO I WAS NOT THERE TO SEE IT. THE ROMANS WERE KNOWN FOR BEING SHORT THATS EXACTLY WHY THE SHORT SWORD (GLADIUS) WORKED SO WELL FOR THEM. SULLA WAS KNOWN FOR HIS ABNORMAL REDDISH HAIR. IN SAYING THAT ROMANS WERE NOTORIOUS FOR MAKING FUN OF THEIR NORTHERN EUROPEAN COUNTERPARTS FOR THEIR HEIGHT. GREEKS WERE DEFINETLY NOT LIGHT SKINNED. AS FOR THE ROMANS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKELY TO HAVE THE NORTHERN ATTRIBUTES YOU SPEAK OF IN THE VERY LATE DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC TO THE EARLY IMPERIAL TIMES AND SO FORTH. BUT AS A WHOLE IN CLASSICAL EUROPE IT WAS BROWN EYES, BROWN HAIR, AS FOR THEIR SKIN THEY WERE ON THE LITE TANNED SIDE. THE ETHNIC TRAITS YOU SPEAK OF WERE FOUND BEYOND THE CISALPINE RANGE AND UP AROUND THE BALTIC SEA (Germany , Northern Gaul and across into Schandinavia) WHICH WAS A REGION THAT ROME DID NOT EXCELL IN AND WERE NOT WELCOME TO SAY THE LEAST. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THE MEDITERANEAN WAS IN A WARMER CLIMATE WHICH WAS A MIGRATING GROUND FOR PHOENICANS, GREEKS, EGYPTIANS AND EVEN LATER THE CARTHAGINIANS. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD WAS 500+ BEFORE THE GREAT NORTHERN INVASION EVEN STARTED WHICH IS WHEN THE MORE MODERN VERSION OF EUROPEANS STARTED TO APPEAR. DONT TRUST THE MOVIES.
SPQR LONG LIVE WESTERN CIVILIZATION

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