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Notes

Society in the Roman Empirehad a kind of theory about race they believed certain people from certain areas had certain characteristics.

In spite of that, the Roman Empirewas a wildly diverse place: the empire imported things from outside the empire (such as pears) and things like wine were ubiquitous but not your only option.

Roman cultureitself was derived from Ancient Greekculture, first imported from the Greek colonists in the south of the Italian peninsula.

In conquering Europe, Rome caused the histories of many of the people it conquered lost, integrating them into the empire.

Rome may not have had a concept of raceor ethnicitylike we do today, though it's clear that there was some concept of ethnicity as the Romans would discriminate based on it.