she was the first STRONG BLACK WOMAN FEMINiST
but in reality she was more like a common greek-macedonian prostitute who slept with white roman emperors for a couple of shekels and fame.
shareCleopatra was Caucasian.
sharereally? do you know what or where greece or macedonia are?
shareI know. Do you know what Caucasian means?
"The use of Caucasian to mean white was popularized in the late 18th century by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German anthropologist, who decreed that it encompassed Europeans and the inhabitants of a region reaching from the Obi River in Russia to the Ganges to the Caspian Sea, plus northern Africans."
It is preferable because "white" is used in a very subjective and imprecise way.
I guess the proper term would be "Indo-European"?
"I guess the proper term would be "Indo-European"
No. The Indo in Indo-European stands for Indian.
It's a language group that covers most countries from Europe to India, hence the name chosen for it.
The original Indo-European speakers were white, however they spread all over Eurasia and mixed with locals which lead to new languages such as Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, Persian etc.
A Punjabi speaks an Indo-European language natively, but isn't white.
A Basque speaks a language that's not Indo-European but is still white.
There is no proper term. All of them are flawed to an extent.
"White people" didn't originate in the Caucasus mountains.
Europeans aren't a homogeneous group. There have always been migrations and Cleopatra's family is a perfect example of that, considering her ties to Macedonia/Greece, Iran, Syria, Egypt etc.
Africans are far from being a homogenous group either. Even Sub Saharan blacks are not homogenous ...
shareThat's also true.
The indigenous southern Africans(San) are brown and have epicanthic fold(Mongoloid eyes).
West Africans are the way people imagine all black people to look like.
This is also due to their expansion into the rest of Africa.
The non-Bantu non-AfroAsiatic East Africans are known for their height and extremely dark skin colour.
The Afro-Asiatic East Africans, such as Somali and various Ethiopian groups, are basically a mixture between indigenous East Africans and Middle Easterners.
In between them, there were Pygmies, but these have been almost fully wiped out and replaced by West Africans.