Septimius Severus: The Roman Emperor Who Invaded Scotland | Britain's African Emperor | Timeline
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2023
- Nearly two thousand years ago most of Britain was a settled province of the Roman Empire. But those in the north held out against the world superpower and insurrection flared across Hadrian’s Wall. So, in 208AD, the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus marched into Scotland with 40,000 men - one of the largest invasion armies Rome ever mobilised.
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Brilliantly narrated by Peter Capaldi, this all star filmic account exemplifies all that's great about this and related channels. Compelling and most impressive.
My congratulations to all involved! Nice one Peter and team. ⭐👍
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Every time I learn something about Scottish history, I love and respect them more. What a great people.
My wife and I are very proud of our Scot ancestors.
The Scots did not exist at the time lol. They didn't invade from Ireland until the 5th century AD, after the fall of Rome. This isn't Scottish history and neither is it English history, its the history of the British Island.@@ghimmy47
if germanicus was in charge as he knew guerrilla warfare it could have been different
You wouldn't think that if you went there keep the romance going and stay where you are
Onwards the brave 💪 🏴
Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in Pictish and Earl Scot warfare (as much as the Roman and Migration Era one), I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series
Thank you! Sounds interesting.
It's not a video series though just a commentary
always into hearing about places to go to learn more! Thank you! 🖤
Good shout, cheers
I agree Picts where there, and Caledonia actually means the land of the Irish ( Picts) or ( Celts) perhaps, there is so much we don't know,☹️
At 11:05 it's a fallacy that Roman power ended at Hadrian's Wall. The Romans had numerous forts north of the wall, and south of the wall as well. Also keep in mind that the Romans didn't fight from their forts or from the tops of walls- they would sally forth and fight in the open, where their equipment and tactics would usually prevail. There's no evidence that Hadrian's wall had crenelations or even a walkway along the top.
The Wall was probably a way to keep barbarians and criminal from easily traveling back and forth.
This is one of the BEST made history documentaries I’ve seen. Once again WELL DONE. Bringing history to life.
Except he wasnt black
He was Phoenician from the south Mediterranean town of Lepcis Magna, close tp the destroyed Phoencian empire of Carthage. He was married to Julia Domna, dau. of the grande dame Maesa of Emesa'Ba'albek,, grandmother of Varius Avitus (Elagaba'al}.To call him African is to ignore the genuine predjudice his family faced...as scions of a PHOENICIAN royal house.
Where was he born? Do you know what continents are?
This manufactured outrage is hilarious.
He was African and known as such throughout his life. Try not to show your ignorance so much. Try to hide it a little, from time to time.
He was ethnically Libyan, therefore African (just not subsaharian)
@twonumber22 the actor they have portraying him appear to be black. He wasnt. Thats the point
A wonderful historical coverage video about Septimius severus emperors attempting to invade Scotland. Thank you( time line) channel, and( history Hit) network page
Septimius' mother was Roman & his father was Carthaginian (Carthaginians were racially white, descended from Phoenicians, who like the Israelites, were a Canaanite caucasian people). The Historia Augustus actually records Septimius ordering an Ethiopian soldier removed from his presence, believing the man's dark skin a bad omen.
The reason it's important to correct & reinforce the fact (& ALL Records) that he was white, is bc this video & some have attempted to "blackwash" Septimius & claim (even presenting images of him) that he was racially "black" which he WASN'T; & was never even suggested by Historians or anyone. Current Woke & P.C. attempts to Retroactively Twist & Corrupt Facts & History to claim something that is just a LIE, has to vehemently be PUT DOWN.@@sonofaman1116
None of this is true
@Libyan_Tripoli You're correct. It's not true that Septimus was black. He was Caucasian.
@@Libyan_Tripolitruth hurts, doesnt it?
Emperor Septimius Severus🇱🇾
Septimius Severus saw himself as a Roman, not as an African. We are projecting today’s racial identity politics into a total different environment. This is the most severe sin in the study of history
Absolutely, he was Phoenician which is in no way African in context with the timeframe.
@@LotusFlowerslove He was Phoenician, this fact is well known just as his family lines are, which is what makes all this false "history" infuriating. So yes I agree, rewriting history is criminal!
Next y'all gon say Carthage isn't in Africa. U can't change facts with feelings or how U think he felt 😊
@@christophermallory3400 He was Phoenician which is not African with Greek and Roman heritage... I have no idea what you are talking about, but it seems neither do you.
@@christophermallory3400Carthage was in Africa but they weren’t Africans. They were from the Levant.
Nice try though.
Thank you. Just one thing that I feel should be mentioned. We have many perfectly preserved busts of Septimius Severus so I don't really understand why to use an AI generated one that doesn't look at all like anything from that time period.
It's the use of the term "African". AI isn't perfect. It uses our own language to inadvertently expose our own prejudice
? @davidcwitkin6729 That's not what I meant. I meant that there is no need to use AI at all. We literally have the real stuff so why distort peoples perception?
The black panther eye graphics and audio??? I just don't know bout that.
Septimo Severus the first black latino Emperor of the greatest empire still ruling today. Am speechless 😮
Excellent!
He wasn't black. Why show him as black? Why use the term African to indicate blackness? He was born in Leptis Magna, Libya which was a trading port full of lots of different nationalities interacting. He was white.
Perhaps the use of "African" was used to indicate his "otherness", his non-roman background as opposed to being Roman-Born. Not everything has to be about colour. And Libya is in Africa.
He was Berber aka Amazigh. They are not black
Don’t cry.
You know why
In the ancient Roman illustration he did not look white, his wife did.
The libyan best in the history 👌🏻💯🇱🇾
ركز عالتعلقيات الأفارقة ينسبو فيه ليهم لو تفهم في انجليزي رد عليهم
Now this is a Person in history I can see Denzel playing
I have been looking for this documentary forever. Thanks.
Very interesting aspect of Roman history.
liked it Kidd 💯💪🏻
He was a Libyan Berber; he married an Italian woman.
One of the best Romans.
Of course, you, a leftist, would think that because you think he was Black because it satisfies your hatred of White people (and so-called White Supremacy) to think a Roman Emperor was Black. FYI, his father was Carthaginian (not Black) and his mother was Roman (also not Black). Sorry to burst your little leftist bubble, but every person who came out of Africa was not Black!
Fc the Romans the Picts murdered them by the 1000s 😅
He wasn't black.
@@ronlacker326 Facts don't matter to the leftists, only perceptions and their personal truths. To them anyone who comes from Africa must be Black, Like Hannibal, or Cleopatra. If you dare deny it with facts, you are labeled racist and silenced.
I even heard some idiot say that Hamilton was our first Caribbean President. First, Hamilton was never President. Second, the Caribbean islands were where slaves were sent to ready them for sale in the Colonies, it was NOT an area dominated by Blacks as it is today.
Is that Peter Capaldi narrating? 😳
If this is,really, the spirit of Septimius Severus, this is a great video. If not …
Phoenician, not African! Lol!
We was kangz
@@travistaylor4342 The fact that nobody is a Kang if you're all Kangs, never occurs to them.
His name is Septimus arabicus. He was an Arab phoinician.
Don't forget the Kweens.
Even if he was north african, he would have been Berber like the people of Morocco, Algeria, Tunsia and Lybia. Nothing to do with sub saharans. They are using disingenous word play. Imagine calling Phoenicians "Asians" since they are located in Western Asia and trying to imply they were some mongoloid chinese looking people.
How long would it take for someone to travel from Roma to Londinium?
@@NDHS1990 Firstly, thank you for the shocking information we can take a plane from Rome to London nowadays, and that it takes only a few hours. Who knew? Secondly, I strongly doubt it would take 3 weeks or more if one could travel by riding a horse and changing it for a fresh one every few hundred kilometers.
Depends. If they walked, it would take almost exactly the same time it would take you today
The sound of that horn is chilling.
Roman Joke: We’ll all only build square buildings everywhere and we’ll build just a couple of roundhouses, in a remote province somewhere, to mess with the historians heads.
I wish I new this growing up
Kinda left a lot out. Specifically Gaeta his other son. He and Caracalla co-ruled until Caracalla murdered him. I do appreciate the time and study it takes to make a doc. Thank you, I'll keep watching
Yes, I was wondering what happened to Geta. It kind of skews the story. Also, the Severan dynasty continued via Elagabalus and Severus Alexander.
@@marial8235 Caracalla has his bodyguards kill him while in a peace meeting brokered by their mother
Listen to the history of Rome by Mike Duncan, no doubt the best Roman history docs u will ever hear. Very detailed. 3-4 episode just on severan dynasty.no doubt u will enjoy
@@jasonhelfrick4020 Pretty nasty business. Can you imagine their Mom’s feelings?
@@marial8235 no,and she was wounded in the process of her son dying in her arms.crazy. lister to history of Rome by Mike Duncan,3-4 episodes on severan dynasty not to mention everything before and after absolutely excellent
Northumberland 208AD 😂😂 you mean northumbria right. Northumberland is a very recent county and is not the kingdom of northumbria. And at this time northumbria was two separate kingdoms bernicia and diara , bernina being the most north of the two
If you want to be that pedantic, Scotland did not exist either and he calls northern Britain "Scotland" repeatedly throughout this.
That was later of course after the Roman departure But I take your point about Northumberland Tyne and Wear is more recent still! Best wishes
9:19 Looks like that pilum was harder than his sternum.
Why do so many people blithely assume that if a historical personage happened to be black, this somehow redounds to his/her credit? If only modern historians could relearn to stick to relevant historical facts. Severus was African, but he was not black. Nor was he Jewish, or an expert in origami, or a Denver Broncos fan.
Caracalla's successor Opellius Macrinus is described in the ancient sources as a Moor (he was born in modern-day Morocco). Though it would still tell us nothing about either the man or his reign, there's an emperor much more likely to have been "black". Are you happy now?
Hadrians wall built to keep people in not out
Okay, before the leftists get carried away, his father was Carthaginian and his mother Roman, so he was NOT AFRICAN BLACK!!!!!!!!
Yes, it’s ridiculous applying Woke BS to history. Like the Cleopatra show.
He saw himself as a Roman, period
Indeed, he was in fact Phoenician.
انا ليبي ونحن لسنا افارقه نحن امازيغ
@@TheGigashadowyou obviously haven't heard of Hannibal was he white too?
@@TheGigashadowhow are u so sure were u around at the time? is that yt privilege speaking?
63 years old is considered old already? Meanwhile Asians in 63 years old are still considered young 🤣
Spiderman got old quick 😅
you mean miles morales, because the black version is miles morales he is a rip off race bend of the real and only spider man, peter parker.
@@knabdank nah, the talking head at 4:30 is called Tom Holland
Aye, ye cunn take our freedom, buy ye'll never take our WHISKY !!
Aye, laddies ?
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what about Marcus Mucous? How does he fit in with all this??
Was he the one with the head cold?
I've heard from a lot of grrat sources from around the world that Septimius Severus did not have black skin color. And some say he does. I would just like to know. I have an extremely rare and expensive Danarius of him and Jupiter on the reverse. It's one of the proudest coins i own.
Scottish history? It’s our shared history you think that English man didn’t run above the border!😄❤️🇬🇧
Remind me on the story of ozymandis
Somehow you always seem to quote invalid sources: Caracalla died on 217, succeeded his father. And Severus was born in Lybia, not in Congo as you repeteadly make it sound , as if he was an actual black african. Please stop carving and retellimg History to your whimsical liking ..
Looks European by his statue , could be north African born but may find his decentants from numerous earlier European colonies set up along there.
North africans are caucasian and medditeranean as well.
He was italic punic actually
I know this because im from. Wer the kingdom of bernicia once was tyneside
... and didn't find anything interesting so he went home.
Right away at 1:44 it's simply not true. From 77 to 85 Agricola marched around Scotland at will, the Caledonians running for the hills. When the Caledonians were finally brought to battle they were soundly defeated. When two Roman armies were defeated by the Dacians, Britain had to be stripped of troops, and the Highland campaign had to be shelved. The Romans renewed campaigning in Scotland 139-142, declared victory, and occupied Southern Scotland. Around 158, for an unknown reason (possibly an uprising in the Pennines) the Romans methodically destroyed their northernmost forts and pulled back to Hadrian's Wall. The point is, the Romans were never defeated by the Caledonians, and went where they wanted and occupied where they wanted for as long as they wanted. Remember that the Romans only occupied places where the Empire could realise a profit through taxes, grain, cattle, iron, lead, tin, copper etc and occupying the Highlands would cost more than it was worth.
The histrionics are too much for me.
Yes, since when is a Phoenician African? Hmmm, oh yeah! Never!
Septimus Arabicus .He was an arab phoinician .
Modern (English-speaking) historians' obsession with the coincidence that Severus happened to be born in Africa says a great deal more about them than it does about the ancient Romans.
Likewise, the constant shoehorning in this video of not-so-sly references to the "inclusivity" of Severus' army.
During his time as Emperor, Severus was also the greatest slave-owner Africa had ever seen, but that's a fact better left unsaid, apparently
Four people who watch the video who do not live in United Kingdom it is not North Britain it is Scotland we are Scottish people of Scotland never agreed to give power away to England
No, it is Northern Britain you fool. That is purely being used in a geographical term. The Island is called Britain, the English term for the Roman word Britannia. Scotland wouldn't exist for almost 1000 years after the events in this video. Keep your nationalism away from history. Its as stupid as someone from England going "No, its not Britain its England".
Scotland IS in the north of Britain, as anyone with even a smattering of European geography will know. And it's also perfectly reasonable to use the expression "Northern Britain" when discussing Severus' campaigns, considering 1) 'Britannia' is the Roman name for our island, and 2) the concept of 'Scotland' did not exist in the 3rd century AD.
And as for Scotland never agreeing to 'give up its independence', and similar such nonsense, check out the nationality of King James I and his decision to make London his capital, rather than Edinburgh...
@profaneangel0842 Sadly, Scottish Nationalists don't have an education. Don't tell him most of the population of Scotland (lowlands) was invaded by the Anglo Saxons and was a part of the Kingdom of Northumbria and the language Scots, is the Northern Dialect of old Anglo Saxon... had the Normans not invaded Britain, the Anglo Saxons in Northern Britain wouldn't have broken off. The Normans didn't have enough troops to hold Northern Britain. Don't tell him Edinburgh used to be a Northumbrian Burgh
Scotland didn't exist yet. The 'Scotts' were still chilling in Ireland at this time.
@@alexcapon3620 That's not what the evidence says at all. The British and Irish people have roughly the same DNA. Britain was settled by the Anglo Saxons and they went as far as lowland Scotland, which is where 90% of Scots live. They created the Edinburgh, burgh = Anglo Saxon term for castle. Similar to places in England like Bamburgh.
The narrators are pronouncing all the Roman names wrong.
Just goes along with the whole theme of this fictional video because he was Phoenician not African, it's a shame when people purposely butcher history!
@@TheGigashadow According to Wikipedia, he was born in Africa. Citation: Anthony Richard Birley, Septimius Severus: the African emperor, Yale University Press, 1988, pp2,18-32.
@@Gwaithmir Look, it doesn't matter who or what you cite the history is not a mystery and the facts are well known, he was from Greek and Roman decent and was considered Phoenician, because that's where he was from. Case closed.
@@TheGigashadow Well, I don't fully understand what you're basing your claim on, but I'm not going to turn this into a debate. I can only go by what I've read.
@@Gwaithmir This is not a debate, one does not debate established facts. I suggest reading something other than Wikipedia, perhaps some trusted historically accurate sources. This is like people saying Winston Churchill was in fact native American, totally contrary to what is actually and factually true.
As more people mention here, Severus was a man born an European woman (white) and Phonician man (also white). He was white as well. And still an African. Why? Because he was born in Africa, plain and simple. Same today, no matter the color of your skin, your nationality is usually the one of the country you are born in. Unless of course it is a temparary stay like a holiday or something.
The people of Madagascar are descended from Austronesian people that also colonized the Philippines and Malaysia. The Berbers of Tunesia are related to the Basques of Northern Spain. The Egyptians are connected culturally and genetically to Arabian people. Africa is filled with people of many languages, skin tones and genetic ancestry. It is sad that so many ignorant people believe Africans are one type of person, having only one characteristic.
Her dad from (temazight) they live in north africa they are Latin's so they are Italians and Spanish and he born in libya
Wow, Europeans portrayed as Africans
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dont pretend you dont know, they literally have a phonician white man being race swapped and played and refered to as a black african.@@GaiusConstantinian
@@knabdank No i don't know. At this time period there were no Europeans or Africans. Only Roman and barbarian. Septimius was a Roman with punic ancestry and would have probably had some italian Roman blood. Black people hardly existed in the Roman Empire. So just because he was African doesn't mean he was black. Look up the amazigh people. These are the natives before and after the Pheonicean, Roman and Arab conquests. They are not snow white but they are certainly not sub-saharan black. I maybe misunderstood the original comment. No need to get sparky, I'm not a deluded afrocentrist.
I'm algerian Berber (amazigh) (North African )
@@knabdank Where was he referred to as black?
The Elder Scrolls?
It's just a book!
IN OTHER WORDS THE ROMANS DID WHAT THE ENGLISH DID WITH INDIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE.
Scotland, at least the Highlands, the northern 3/4, was and is an economic wasteland. VERY poor, hardly any arable land.
Severus invaded because he COULD, and wanted a triumph, but Scotland would never have been profitable for Rome.
Severus was a very able emperor, but this was an unforced error.
Moreover, Libya, his homeland, -- in Roman times -- was part of the ancient Mediterranean world, largely detached from the African continent and African civilization by the Sahara.
Libya was African in name only. It was a rich province of Rome.
Severus was an "African" in today's sense as much as Trajan was a Spaniard and not a real Roman.
His dynasty was an utter flop after him, lasting until 238, leading to the unstable time of annual emperors in the Third Century CE.
Scotland didn't exist at the time, what are you talking about. Scotland was a medieval Kingdom. You mean Northern Britain. Hadrian Wall was not a border between England and Scotland, its in Northern England but its not the border.
He is libyan, but British and western people don't like to talk well about Arab so they say African and the problem solved libya is part of Africa
It's accurate because the Roman province of 'Africa' was made up of both modern day Tunisia and Libya. Though I will concede that most people don't understand that nuance and to them 'Africa' immediately springs to their mind the continent rather than the shape of the old Roman province.
African doesn’t necessarily mean he was black. Cleopatra wasn’t black.
He’s not even an arabian
@@darkwitchy He was part semitic though as his family had phoenician ancestry. Closest to Phoenicians today are the Lebanese.
@@CanadianAnglicanhhhhhhh
Thanks, I guess.
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Yeh, all major historical figures were black.
A Roman would not use a long e in the name Severus. Need better pronunciations by narrator.
Except it wasn't "North Britain" it was Pictish/Scotia or Caledonia. Once again the English historians try to rewrite and entire countries history. And the Roman leader was Phoenician not African... this is all over the place. Next you will have William Wallace riding into battle in a tank with Churchill ...
In a geographical sense, he is right, it is Northern Britain you nugget. Britain was inhabited by dozens of brythonic tribes. Many of which fled North when the Romans came. The Scottish historian Neil Oliver talks about this. Northern Britain was effectively an insurgency area. The wall wasn't to keep people out, but to manage the insurgency and tax those going north and south. The Romans called the entire Island Britannia or Albion. It certainly was never called Scotia, the Romans invented that term when supposed Irish raiders started raiding Britain in the 3-5th century AD. The Romans did use the term Caledonia to describe everything north of the river Forth, which in effect is the Highlands. where few people lived. So in all due respect, you're entirely wrong. Scotia, Caledonia, there both Latin terms and words, written by the conquering Roman Empire, the natives left no written record, no written language. I find it funny that you're so nationalistic, your national identity is fragile, you have to cling medieval terms to try and rationalise and connect to a country that did not exist at the time. The Irish and Anglo Saxon invaders which would help create modern Scotland is still centuries off.
Very interesting video. Would have been better without the scenes filmed in the present, like the helicopters. Good narration with the images of the forts would have been better and less distracting. Severus came from the continent of Africa and that made him an African regardless of the ethnic or racial group to which he belonged. Nothing to see here, folks. And at the time, what we now call Scotland would have been in the northern part of the British Isle. Don't see any issue with this either.
Yeah, the Romans wouldn't be able to disungish between Northern England and Lowland Sccotland. Them countries did not exist and there isn't a natural boundary.
We dont like being called african. I am pretty sure that nobody calls a Saudi person "Asian" since Saudi Arabia is located in Western Asia.
Well researched
White African. Be specific. You should look at the current South African cricket team
NORTH AFRICAN. We north africans arent black. We are Berbers and come from a Medditeranean region.
Very informative! An attempt to rehabilitate the perception of Scots perhaps?😂
Rome "you shall.surrender to the might of rome"
Scotsman " aye will.we ya bawbag "
Scotland did not defeat the Romans, because it did not become a country until 843, about 433 years after the Romans left Britannia. Caledonia, Scotia, Pictish people and tribes were north of the Firth of Forth, over 100 miles from what is today the border between Scotland and England, Caledonia was more probably further north of the River Tay. another 40 miles or so. Anything else written is wrong, have an opinion yes, it does not make it fact, but your right to do so. One thing also sure, northern tribes did fight against the Romans.
Peter capaldi??
Romans had dragon horns, maybe later though.
Not sure why they are being called britans....they weren't in roman Britain.
The Romans "We have built the most influencial, culturally diverse, top two longest lasting, most powerful empires in all of humanity."
Scots: "Aye, ave ye seen ne dog horn"
Actually, Rome is the 3rd longest lasting. Ancient Egypt is the longest lasting, and China is 2nd.
@avet4521 lol china laughs at your comment it's written history is 3500 years old and it's civilisation was old at the start of that written record possibly another 15000 years and it's still going, it's first civilisation was circa 17th century bc the Shang dynasty
@StuartAnderson-xl4bo China is not anywhere near that old. Their culture was remade by Quin Shi Huang when he unified China after the waring states period. Which happened in 221 BC. Ancient Egypt began in roughly 3500-3100 BC and lasted until the fall of Cleopatra in 30 BC. Ancient Egypt lasted between 3500-3100 years, while China is only 2000 years.
All y’all really just mmmactually’d instead of just laughing this funny joke? Good grief.
@Old_Goth_Lady87 The joke wasn't that funny, its more fun to discuss history.
An excellent documentary on one of the less well-known Emperors. I'm fascinated to see that the contemporary historical portrait (12:35) depicts him as having darker skin!
Some people prefer to live a life without supremacy ideology.
Why you a void to say that he was an Arab?
Septimus Arabicus and his wife Julia from syria she too Arab . Philipus arabicus ,also caracala .and many othets.
father carthaginian mother roman,what is this re writing of history by pc brownie points crew.complete fantasy
He stayed true to his North Afrikan roots but they re painted his - story …
#LiberateNewAfrikanEducation
More history, less bad acting
Isn't ol' Severus meant to have had a bit of a lispy accent?
Also, did Geta not exist in this timeline?
Libyan invaded scotland 2000 years ago !!
Nice story
The great Libyan ❤
Go Scots
There was not such people as Scot’s in Roman Britain. They were picts. The picts were erased from north Britain around 1050 centuries ago by tribes invading from Ireland called the scotti.
There wasn`t just Picts in Scotland at the time mate@@johnconnery1939
He was black handsome super brave cojones macho and terrible smart, nothing less for a African man. Is evident that he was clearly proud to be so.
Celtic fans.. what did they expect?
Learned about SEVERUS in the hebrew and Bible academy of the youtube channel agathering144
The current statue of the emperor Severest is a fake.. There's nothing in that statue which says he was a native African.🤔!!
He was Italic and Levantine.
North Africa is located in the Mediterranean, closer to the middle east and southern Europe than 90% of sub-saharan Africa, very far away from the equator, of course they have typical olive skin color. Only people with sub-human level intelligence like you think continents separate skin colors. Even the word 'Africa' came from a roman north african province called Africa Proconsularis, modern day Tunisia, so that word has nothing to do with sub-saharan primitives in the first place. Go take a look at a population density map of africa, there's a whole desert seperating sub saharans. Just like how in the continent of Asia you have indians, Japanese and Syrians living who have nor look nothing like eachother.
North africa has nothing to do with you sub saharans.
Was Semitic. Remember Carthage. Not black. Was a Roman.
انا ليبي من بلاد التي ولد فيها سبتموس نحن لسنا افارقه سود نحن امازيغ
North africans are berbers and they are caucasian. They are medditeranean as well.
A bearded roman? And an emperor at that?
Weren't they supposed to be close shaved at all times?
If I remember correctly, it was something of a status symbol of being a free man in the Roman empire?
It actually switched many times. During the early republic period many men would have beards. Scipio popularized the shaved look for many generations. Emperor Hadrian popularized the beard again.
@@GaiusConstantinian
I know. It was more of a thought.
He was of African descent and some people say he could be traced back to Carthage.
@@kristiandannevang5244He probably could be traced back to Carthage. I think that he was part Roman though and would've considered himself fully Roman as the Punic people were part of Rome for around 2-3 hundred years at that point.
When barbarians tell their own version, they are an advanced civilization of troglodytes, ruled by an 'African' Emperor and Emperor Antonius Pious apparently doesn't exist 😂
@TimelineChannel Ummm....Severus a Black man???
I am from Libya and we are not black, we are Berbers, my friend
Funny how no one has any issue pointing out when a Roman might have been from Britain, Persia or Greece, but suddenly when they're African, everyone's all "uh Africa didn't EXIST". I wonder why that might possibly be the case.
well why would they race swap a historical figures appearance? idological belief obviously.
Because they're racist buffoons like the one who just responded above me. They have no educations to back them up, only ignorance.
Of course he's from Africa.. I think some people are just pointing out that he wasnt African in the sense that his mom/dad were from the Levant and Italy ethnically
Because calling him african isnt accurate. Do you call somebody from Saudi Arabia "Asian" since saudi is located in western Asia? I am moroccan myself and we do not call ourselves africans. We have nothing to do with sub saharans.
@@muddyhotdog4103 He aint african in the sense that he isnt from sub saharan africa. Nobody calls a Saudi person or Levantine person "Asian" since its located in Western Asia. Same goes for Morocco, Algeria, Lybia and Tunisia. We do not call ourselves african, that isnt accurate.
Foolish decision
Hah, surely looks as if today's racial politics got a toe hold here , especially when addressing his troops.
Im just here to read all the blk folks mad saying he was African 😆😂
whitewashed
Horrible
This is confusing people are gona think the African emperor of Rome with his spikey beard is a black dude he was Phoenician northern Africa today and in antiquity was quite diverse
no one thinks that bro trust me
We Berbers are not Phoenicians, we are the indigenous people of North Africa .
@@massinissaziriamazigh8122 you might not be Phoenician but Septimius Severus was
@@Truewisefacts781speak for YOURSELF "bro" and shut it.
We are not diverse in north africa. North africans are berbers and we are caucasian. We are a medditeranean region.
He was not Black.
No one said he was.