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OP needs to define white, druze are white etc. etc.
were ancient Italians white? you get where i'm going with this, silly question
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Ancient Jews genetic heritage was a mix of Northern Semitic/Levantine and Indo-European with some minor other elements eg East African, Egyptian etc.
Northern Semites, Levantines and Indo-Europeans were all white in the ancient world.
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There was some minor historic contact with these Neighbouring populations. The Egyptians were themselves split into a white hamitic group and a mixed southern group (with Nubians). East African's were Ethiopians (Kushites) like Moses' wife. I'm sure these were minor admixtures and probably not widespread.
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There was no defined concept of 'whiteness' at that time, to begin with. However, there was an understanding of european vs asian.
Syrians were considered asiatic barbarians.
http://rbedrosian.com/Sex/Isaac_2006_Greek_Racism.pdf
Germanics were at least noted for being more pure european in the sense that were less 'corrupted' by exotic elements.
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Germans were considered Barbarians whilst Syrians were respected as a civilisation. Don't forget that the the Greeks' named their continent after Europa (Greek Ευρώπη Eurṓpē) who was a Phoenician woman of high lineage.
Also, there was most certainly a concept of whiteness as depicted by the ancient Egyptians;
Asiatics were from Asia minor and today's Near East rather than referring to East Asians.
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Read the document. They were both called barbarians, however germanics were more respected in the sense that they were still fellow europeans, and technically even more european in the sense that they had less exotic elements. Anti-Semitism against Jews and Phoenicians was also rife. It was on an ethnic basis, rather than religious.
Yes, and those near easterners/anatolians are the original non-european foreign asiatics and they were chastized as such.
What does that picture have to do with whiteness? All it means is that there were different races.
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