History of the White Race : Chapter 16

The story of Roman expansion to the east is no less dramatic than that of its extension to the west - the major difference was that in racial terms, the effect of occupying areas to the east was far greater than the areas in the west.

In fact, it was the extension of the Empire to the east which ultimately led to its downfall, for through the inclusion of eastern territories, vast numbers of people were drawn into Rome who genetically shared nothing with the original founders of that civilization - unlike the situation in the West.

Once again, as had been the case with every great civilization before it, Rome fell because the original people who created the Empire disappeared: submerged into a mass of foreigners - replaced by immigrants and the descendants of slaves brought in from all over North Africa, the wider Mediterranean and the Middle and Near East.

The full extent of the Roman Empire in the east is shown here: From the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers to the southern reaches of the Nile - in this way masses of mixed race peoples from this region were given access to Rome itself.

Prior to the Roman expansion into the Middle and Near East, the process of racial integration in that region had proceeded apace. Original Nordic Indo-European and Old European Mediterranean types had all but vanished by the year 100 BC. In the space of a few hundred years, large numbers of Indo-Europeans had been completely submerged into the far faster breeding Semitic, Arabic and Asian elements filling up the Middle and Near East.

For example, the Indo-European Persians reached Azerbaijan around the year 900 BC, closely followed by their racial kinsmen, the Medes. The Persians, being far more numerous, overpowered the Medes, and between them these two tribes ruled a large swathe of territory covering modern day Iran, a large part of Iraq and other land extending as far as modern southern Turkey.

In 600 BC, Persian envoys visited India, and their visit was recorded in a series of paintings made by Indian artists in Bombay (and which are on view to this day in the famous Ajanta caves outside that city). The racial make-up of the envoys tells a story all of its own: of the three Persians depicted, one has blond hair and blue eyes, a second has dark hair and blue eyes, while the third has dark hair, dark eyes and is obviously more Semitic in appearance. This is a good indicator of the racial demographics at work in Persia at this time.

This was the case across the Near East - the Nordic Indo-European tribes and the Old European Mediterranean peoples, who had together provided the impetus for the great ancient civilizations, had to all practical purposes disappeared by the time that the Romans started pushing east. Today, scattered light colored eyes and light hair amongst the overwhelmingly Arabic population of the Near East are the only reminders of the ancient rulers of this territory.

The result of the centuries of mixing in the Middle East was that when the Romans extended their borders, they occupied large areas populated either by Semites, Arabics, Asians, or in the majority of cases, already very mixed race populations.

The strange act of the king of Pergamum willing his state to the Romans in 133 BC, started the Romans off on their occupation of the east. A part of western Turkey (called Western Ciciia at the time) was next to be annexed by Rome as part of an anti-piracy campaign in 102 BC. Shortly thereafter Ptolemaic Egypt and the states of central Anatolia (eastern Turkey) became formal vassals of Rome, officially falling under the latter's protection.

A belligerent and typically mixed race Middle Eastern people, the Pontus, invaded from the east in 110 BC, and swept through much of northern Turkey and territory around the Black sea, including Crimea, and eventually penetrated part of Roman ruled Greece. Spurred into action, the Romans under the emperor Sulla attacked - the defeat of the Pontus caused northern Turkey and large parts of the Black sea basin to become Roman provinces.

Although a peace treaty was signed, by 66 BC, hostilities between Rome and the Pontus had once again broken out. This time the Roman general Pompey made short work of his enemies, defeating and formally annexing those parts of the Pontus kingdom, extending Rome's reach into the southern part of Crimea and putting a bridgehead into the Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian seas.

To the south, Syria was made a Roman province, along with Palestine and even a slice of the Arabian peninsula extending nearly half way down the Red Sea, including for the first time vast numbers of Arabic Semites in their original homeland in the Arabian peninsula.

In 50 BC, Caesar swept to power in Rome. General Pompey gathered together an army in Greece to try and destroy the usurper, but with the help of his 6,000 German mercenaries, Caesar's forces comfortably defeated Pompey in the battle of Pharsus in 48 BC.

From Greece, Caesar went on to march right through the east (47 BC), North Africa (46 BC) and Spain, whose Celts had gone into revolt after being occupied by Caesar's armies for the first time in 49 BC.

With the exception of Spain and parts of Greece, all of the areas collected into Caesar's grasp by his astounding series of military campaigns, had Nonwhite majorities.

Caesar's successors tampered with other parts of the Near and Middle East. Octavian Augustus reinforced Roman rule in Turkey and extended the Empire's borders deep into the Caucasus, with Roman vassal states extending as far as a few hundred kilometers from the Caspian Sea.

The Roman city of Timgad, in modern day Algeria, stands today as a massive ruin - but when the Romans occupied the region it was one of their major centers on the North African coast outside of Carthage. The Romans gave the name of Africa to their province in the region - and that was how the entire continent got its name. However, the province of Africa was the first step in the undoing of the Roman Empire: as it spread its borders ever more eastward, it started incorporating more and more non-Roman - and Nonwhite peoples into its borders. This infusion of non-Roman peoples was to eventually cause the empire itself to lose its racial homogeneity and fall.

The vast numbers of Arabic Semites and mixed races included in the new regions in the Middle East and North Africa were all put through the customary Romanizing process. Within the space of a few decades they were allowed to elect senators to the Roman senate in Rome - their sheer weight of numbers soon meant that true Romans quickly made up a minority of senators in the capital of the Empire.

It takes no imagination to understand how the relatively small group of original Romans soon lost control of the racial make-up of Rome under these conditions.

It was, simply put, demographically impossible for the Romans alone to supply the manpower to run such a vast area. They were forced to Romanize the local population and recruit soldiers and tradesmen from the local populations.

Very often only the most senior civil servants in the Roman provinces were actually originally from Rome - and in a very many cases, even they too were supplanted in the course of time by locals.

Eventually the logical step was taken by the emperor Caracalla in 212 AD, when he gave all free men in the Empire Roman citizenship, the racial implications of which were huge and which have already been discussed. (Caracalla was himself born of a Roman family in Africa and a Syrian mother - his own dubious citizenship status may have played a role in his decision to extend citizenship to all).

The Romans in Egypt.

Very often confusion exists in the public mind over what exactly was ancient Egyptian and what was not. This is understandable if this scene above is studied. Appearing to be a relief from Egyptian antiquity, it is in fact a representation of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, with their son, Caesarion, in small between them. The relief was made during Caesar's lifetime - circa 45 BC. Cleopatra was the last of the Macedonian (Greek) leaders of Egypt, the last of the Ptolemies, a dynasty set up by one of Alexander the Great's generals. The Ptolemies took on the ways and customs of the ancient Egyptians, even down to art and dress. This then is the reason why this apparently ancient Egyptian image of Julius Caesar exists to this day at the Temple of Hathor in Dendra, Egypt.

DARK FACES IN ROMAN EGYPT

Roman controlled Egypt became one of the prime examples of how Nonwhites filled up the borders of the Roman Empire after that nation annexed the Middle East. Below is a coffin - and a detail from the occupant' portrait - dating from 200AD in Roman Egypt. The face of the occupant shows the very clear effects of racial mixing - slowly but surely the Nonwhite element of the lands in the Middle Eastern part of the Roman Empire grew and seeped towards Rome itself. In this way the White Romans were soon overwhelmed in all their eastern held territories by largely mixed race populations.

The Jewish tribes in Palestine (who were originally a Semitic tribe, but had, like almost all the peoples in that region, been fairly heavily mixed with other racial groups over the course of time) had been independent since shaking off the declining Seleucid kingdom in 129 BC.

This Jewish kingdom was divided into three after the death of their king Herod in 4 BC, with the largest portion, Judea, becoming a Roman province in 4 AD - after a period of anarchy which saw the Jews petition Rome for inclusion as a province into the Empire.

In 66 BC, the by now mixed race Parthians (in modern day Syria, Iran and Iraq) went into open revolt against Roman Rule. They were quickly followed by the Jews who soon grew tired of their Roman protectors. A Roman general in charge of one of the armies in Palestine, Vespian, suppressed the Jewish revolt, and fought his way back to Rome to replace the anarchy and civil strife which followed the suicide of Nero.

Taking advantage of the political and military chaos in Rome, the Parthian revolt succeeded. A large slice of modern day Iraq and all of Iran became independent of Roman rule. The only consolation for the empire was that Roman vassal kingdoms now extended as far as the Caspian Sea itself, although this occurred at the cost of territory to the north.

The Roman emperor Trajan (98 - 117 AD) managed to turn the tables on the Parthians, invading their territory with revitalized Roman legions employing a large number of German and Gaul mercenaries. Trajan reached as far east as the Tigris and Euphrates river basin, in what is today Kuwait.

The very next emperor, Hadrian, realized that the Roman legions were over extending themselves, and embarked upon a deliberate program of withdrawal and consolidation - the Roman armies, which had now followed Alexander the Great's footsteps, were withdrawn to the easternmost point of the Euphrates river, near the present day Turkish border.

After 200 AD, the pressures on Rome began to increase: on the northern borders with Germany, the last of the great Indo-European invasions was creating a new and powerful force - the Goths. Arriving in ever increasing numbers, they raided Roman outposts in Gaul and crossed the Danube in several places. Some of their racial cousins created a Gothic power in southern Russia, which also beat upon the doors of the Roman Empire in the Black sea basin. Relying on their mixed race vassals and seriously outnumbered legions, the Romans barely clung to their strong points under the new wave of invaders.

In the east, a new unity was developing. The Parthians were overthrown, not by Romans, but by the by now mixed race Persians, who began to make excursions into Roman territory. Around 258 AD, the Persians broke the power of many important Roman vassal states. The Kingdom of Armenia was overrun, then Syria and Antioch itself was sacked in 260 AD.

In 268 AD, the Syrians seceded from the Empire and Roman forces in Egypt lost control over the southernmost parts of that land. The Eastern Empire seemed on the point of collapse under the pressure of native rebellions combined with the inability of the locally recruited mixed race Roman armies to fight off the continual rebellions.

Just how far the Roman Empire extended eastwards is shown by this Roman bridge over the Tigris River at the village of Zakhu in present day Iraq. The Roman Empire used a large number of German mercenaries in the Tigris/Euphrates river valley as part of their occupying army. Pure Roman types were too few to majority occupy the region, with the result that it was not that long before the Romans became submerged into the local largely mixed race population.

Raising new mercenary armies in Gaul and from Germans, the Roman general Caesar Galerius pursued a successful war against Persia in 297 AD, occupying half of Mesopotamia. This remained the eastern frontier of the Empire until 626 AD, when the Persians once again forced a contraction of the Eastern Empire's borders.

By 626 AD the Roman Empire had been divided into two, an Eastern and a Western half. Like the Western Romans, the Romans in the Eastern Empire barely resembled the original Romans, and relied greatly on German and even Viking mercenaries (the Eastern Roman Emperor's private guard was composed exclusively of Viking mercenaries) to hold their borders against the continual battering by their by then equally mixed race Persian enemies.

The Eastern Empire and the Persians were kept so busy in a long drawn out war that neither of them took any notice - till it was too late - of the rise of the power of Islam in the south, a power which would not only sweep them away but provide the single greatest threat to Europe itself for hundreds of years to come.