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Karro's avatar

You are missing by far the most important reason.

Imperial Romans were nothing like Republican Romans. The Republican Romans were demographically replaced almost in their entirety.

While the Italic Republican Romans were genetically similar to Southern French or Northern Spaniards, the Imperial Romans contained significant Middle Eastern ancestry (Levantine and Anatolian, in addition to Greek) and were closest to Greek Islanders and Cypriots.

When Alexander conquered the Middle East it turned many parts of that world culturally Greek. The Hellenized groups, especially from Anatolia and the Levant, moved to Greece so that in a short amount of time Hellenistic Greece became overwhelmingly Middle Eastern in ancestry.

These groups moved into Italy and in fact there are historical attestations regarding this. Of course they didn't do DNA tests for ancestry back then, they just considered them all to be Greeks.

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Alexeyprofi's avatar

So, Christianity made people weak as well as Roman state did through genetic pacification? I wouldn't say medeival age Europeans were peaceful

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