Are Middle Easterners and North Africans the Same Race?
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- The countries and people of the Middle East/West Asia and North Africa are very often group together from a cultural, genetic, linguistic and religious point of view, but are Middle Easterners and North Africans the same race? There are many different interesting people groups and cultures originating from Southwest Eurasia and they have influenced and been influenced by almost every region on Earth, despite what many may think.
In today's video we're going to be looking at the history and pre-history of the Greater Middle Eastern region and see where they line up from a genetic standpoint and how religion, language and different historical events have shaped the modern people groups across this mega-region. Thanks for watching!
As an Egyptian, I could say that a Moroccan and a Persian look very different. The middle east is very diverse, and I like it that way.
North Africa is more divers than the middle east.
أهلا بولاد بلدي
@@moroccanatlaslioness66 ????? How
@@moroccanatlaslioness66 hi, how do you figure?
@Akita lokey The best joke for this morning.
I am a berber from morcco and I just took a dna test and these were my dna results:
70% Northafrican
20% Iberian
10% West african
No middle eastern, exactly.
@Read Quran 4:27-28 And 13:28 Actually there's no such thing as "middle eastern" DNA.
@@bhka6423 there is NEXT!!!
You'll never know me because this is the internet why "ignorance"? there is no such thing as "middle eastern". an arabian and armenian for example are completely different genetically.
@@bhka6423 dude middle eastern DNA as an "you have a DNA that originates from The Middle East" like arab , armenian , jewish
Genetics is such a fascinating subject. It shows how incredibly different we are from each other, and how incredibly similar we are to each other. What a wonderful contradiction humanity is. I wish more people appreciated it.
We Australo-Americo-Afro-Eurasians are clearly the superior race fuck whatever anybody else says.
Edgy
@@samyrandome425 lolll
@Aline Cardoso Genetically? No. Culturally? Yes, we are very different and that is amazing and beautiful.
@Samy randome.
Much respect for Morocco. Such awesome history! Tunisia and Algeria too. Proud to have 10% North African DNA, as my ancestry test says😅 (cuban dad, brazilian mom) Love from this Hispanic American 🇺🇸🇲🇦
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North Africa has dna from.many sources and much of it is not native to North Africa.
wa zabi
Vc consegue me entende quando eu falo em português (Brasileiro) com vc?
@@velhodosaco4623 sim entendo
I love how you talk about race without making it offensive or pandering to supremacists and the like. Just how it is... we humans went places, did shit. Let's see where it takes us.
Actual social and genetic science 👍
David Compestela yup many different people think they are superior to another
Yeah it's hard to talk about heritage in the Western world because we'll have either supremacists like you mention, or people that get way too offended by race and over compensate saying, _there is no such thing as race, all humans are identical_
Let them be angry.
Exactly. Racial identitarians like BLM or White Supremacists give this kind of research a bad name by using it to sew hatred and division. Science, when done right, has no bias.
Your channel is actually responding all of the question i asked to myself about the all human races in the world !!! Thank you +1 sub 😄
OK masaman is back with another vid thank you sir.
Greatings to North Africa Amazigh from Libya
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Greetings from Amazigh from Rif
azul felwaen n imazighen d marrouk
You are not Africans, deal with it
@@tk-jl5dv are You dumb ?
@amir el odm that doesn't mean that you are Africans, and if this theory is true then Saudis are "asians" , it's not only about geography, its about culture and religion and ethnicity....etc dont know why you trying so miserably to rid of the arabic culture , just deal with it , and stop your identity crisis because france implanted it in the region and it's the only one who benefited from it ,same shit ( identity crisis) happens in Lebanon, do you think its coincidence? I dont think so
Im mexican american and took a DNA test and found that i have around 3% north african and like 2% from the levant region. I guess mostly from Morocco then lol
I'm Puerto rican and have 3% north African but most Cameroon 20% when it comes to Africa.
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Viven los Bla-Tinos!
i bet, if u take it again, especially from through another company, u would get a different ratio
God, some of you Americans really need a brain.... Those " DnA TeSt " are fake as hell, they just fool you americans because you don't know really your origin unlike most people in Europe, Africa or Asia. Stop buying and believing those fake tests
@@YujiroHanmaaaa they're not fake....they just give answers with a 50% accuracy. That's about as accurate as the weather forecast for Next week. There's a way to ask for more accuracy and test gets blatantly simplistic, kind of: yeah, you're definetely european.....don't know where though.....norway? Maybe sicily? Russia?
Could you do more videos on lost cultures of the MIddle East? Thanks for another great and informative video!
I'm Armenian and I consider myself Middle Eastern 🤷🏻♂️ I don't know what's wrong with that as my ancestors were from northwest Iran.
I consider Armenia to be both middle-east and Europe.
You get the duality of both.
Congratulations your both in my opinion.
Armenian are not Caucasians and in matter of fact most of them used to live in Middle East in western Armenia or Eastern Turkey in the past. Their land was called the Armenian highlands, it was a link between the Iranian plateau and the Anatolia plateau. Even in the ancient time, Ancient Armenian are brown with black hair like other people in the area unlike Caucasians. Caucasian are white people. The first Armenian kingdom was van, it was founded around the ancient Lake Van and Uratu was an American kingdom. They speak a a branch of Indo European languages like Germanic, Indo Aryan and Iranic languages. I think all indo Europeans came from Armenian highlands in the past.
And I cannot deny that then Noah Ark landed on the mount of Ararat in Armenia. I am not Christian or Jewish.
@@Soul-co7ki Noah's Ark landed on the ARMENIAN Highlands, not mount Ararat. Genesis 8:4 says Mountain(s). Remember Colchis is an topynum to Caucasus, Urartu with Armenia, and Mesopotamia with Assyria. Even though at times we overlap Mediterranean, Levant, Mesopotamia, and Caucasus, we are left as Armenians only, in the Middle East.
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Hi Masaman, here's suggestions I recommend for later video's topics:
1. How to defined 'the West', Western Countries or Western World. Is it based on ethno-culture, ideology or Political systems?
2. How many European do the Levant, Caucasus and Anatolia have?
3. Is original Aryan or Proto-Indo-European direct ancestor of Northern, Northwestern and Northeastern European?
4. How to defined 'East Asian', is it a racial term to describe Mongoloid in Asia, does it combine Southeast Asian with Northeast Asian(Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Tibetan, Mongolian and East Himalayan)?
4. Are Upper caste Northwest/North Indian and Pakistani really 'Aryan' people?
5. Is Iranian closely related with Eastern and Northern European.
6. Does Peninsular Arab have unique genetics?
7. Who is Iraqi/Mesopotamian?
@Graeme Duncan Japan and South Korean couldn't be part of the West because their ethnicity and culture.
@@xiangtianxie8214 they only appear to be Westernised, but ethnically are not. Why should they be?
Your videos should be in a classroom or recommended topic for discussion. Quite neutral, interesting, and informative.
Greetings from a north African Berber, always nice to see a video from you about this region.
Your video touches on a very sensitive topic, which is a subject of very heated debates here, relating to who/what should we identify with as people, and whether it should be the Berber culture, Arabic culture, Islamic culture, Mediterranean culture, African roots.... that seem somehow to be mutually exclusive in the eyes of each of their proponents.
You couldn't have explained it better. I simply identify as a North african libyan. Not Arab nor berber.
Ahmed E. Mresa can i ask? Did u know ur tribe name? To be berber or arab who should have a tribe dan u can know if u r berber or arab or none
@@wuhwbeahshgs6457 chaoui is mine.
I m a German born Moroccan. I can tell you that I am both Arab and African Berber
@@Flashshit84 you cannot be both. Are you only half Moroccan or are both of your parents Moroccan? Because if both of your parents are originally Moroccan, then you're not Arab
Audio levels area bit off, music a bit overpowering. A good mic would serve u well. Good work.
We Persians have Persian culture, we speak Persian. Middle Eastern is not a race, ethnicity, culture, etc, it is a geographical area. The people of the Middle East are different, there are Persians, Turks, Jewish, Arabs, etc, etc, and all of them are different. The people of the Middle East do not have the same genetics. We speak different languages and have different cultures and religions. And, 5:00 in this video are Afghans, not Persians/Iranians.
And the people of the Middle East don't have the same features. Turks, Persians, Jewish, Arabs, etc, don't look alike, some of them are similar, not all. The people of the Middle East don't share the same genetics.
Middle East just a geographical region area.
By the way, do you think North/Northwest Indian and Pakistani have similar looking with Persian, especially those upper caste.
@@xiangtianxie8214 Yes, some Northern Indians and Pakistani have similar looking with Persians because Iranians were a mix of Aryans and native Iranians. And Northern Indians and Pakistani are a mix of Aryans and Dravidians, the South and Central Indians are Dravidians.
@@xiangtianxie8214 The first Iranian civilizations are Susa, Elamites (Elam civilization), Jiroft civilization and Shahr-e Sukhteh, 6,000 BC. The indigenous people of Iran were Caucasian (Caucasian race).
Most Persians are brunette and they have olive-skin and the rest are fair-skinned with green and blue eyes because Aryans (Indo-Europeans/Indo-Iranians) migrated to Iran/Persia and they mixed with the native Iranians (Susa, Elamites, and Jiroft civilizations, the oldest civilizations in the world.) who were brunettes and Olive.
That is why in all corners of Iran you can find blond and fair-skinned with green and blue eyes.
@@amestrismehrdadi7959 Do you agree with me that people from Levant, Caucasus and Anatolia are White people because they look like Southeast European/Balkanite.
Hi from Tunisia, i think we are much more diverse genetically than our neighbors if you consider the cheer amount of civilizations that passed through our land. I believe that am predominantly North African and culturally more than just Arab with all due respect to all cultures here.
Baalhamon hey! You are correct to believe that. But Tunisians have a large M.E pop, more than other North Africans from the ancient phonecians and a smaller component from the Arabs.
@Kyle S. all north african have a large european admixture because most of us lives very close to the mediterannean sea
@Jade Green Tunisia and Italy have been trading and culturally exchanging for ages. However since the late 18th century, many Italians have decided to move to neighboring Tunisia for various reasons : Some had a business to pursue, some were political refugees, southeners and sicilians mostly came to find fertile lands and a similar climate after the unification of Italy left them landless, and jews fled persecution in europe. When the kingdom of Tunis went bankrupt, it was put under french and italian imperialism, forcing the king (called "Bey") to sign treaties promoting italian migration wich were intended to help Italy expand and colonize territory in North Africa. The french outposed the italian's colonial objectives by imposing a protectorate over Tunisia in 1881, in a crisis that is known as the "slap of Tunis". During the protectorate, most of the european settlers were of Italian origin, causing tensions between the french who had administrated the country and the italians living there and who were seen as a threat. Those tensions were aggravated when the Allies conquered Tunisia during WW2 and started harrassing the italians, forcing some of them to flee back to Italy. The rest left Tunisia after independance. Today a small minority of italians live in a town known as "La goletta", and their legacy can be found in the tunisian language, gastronomy and architecture.
I worked with an italo-tunisian.
@Jade Green Thank you, we have italians and french expats living here since the late middle ages, also a Jewish quarter in the capital and the island of Djerba. The French, Italians and Maltese populations dwindled in the 20th century but we are open and welcoming any friends that wish to live among us as we did for hundred of years.
great job masman i think middle east term is necessary to describe the admixture of races between the three continent (Asia, Africa, europe)
I'm moroccan, to all that wonder what's a north african, simply a north african is not a european, is not an arab, and is not a subsaharan african/black, he is just what he is north african, we share features with southern europeans and middle easterns but we are neither one of them, we are just natives to this continent and we are not black, can't you understand that?? africa is a vast continent, africa deosn't mean black, hence even the term "africa" is coming from us after the roman provence of "africa" modern day tunisia, so stop asociating us with arabs or sub-saharans or europeans
you are delusional hahaha
A lot of you guys are black, assume it !
@@modaze lol they are
thanks for claiming the truth
@@modaze dark skin yes but not full black and not the most part of the population . But anyway we are proud of it .
I'm African American but I have mixed ancestry I always tell people I'm black on the outside and Arab on the inside. I learned as I got older that I had a small percentage of Middle Eastern heritage. I embrace both my black side and Arab side. It's cool to know your heritage and history.
Where is your arab side from?
@James I guess, I don't want to be Arab. Your comment don't make any sense. We're all human. Arabs today aren't pure like they were back then.
@James ignorant comment
@@thenobleone-3384 We are still pure and the comment owner is not Arabic
@@hijacked_1153 I think so I'm testing my DNA again with another company
Can you bring down the volume on the background music?
No. I think it's more that his mic is so low.
Great video, on a fascinating (and controversial) topic. I would love to see a detailed discussion of the 4-way graph shown at 9:25.
I can't be the only viewer who was disappointed by the volume or rather the lack of it.
Yes I'm disappointed in the bias untruths all over this video. And they non recognition of so many people that were exterminated and raped of there history while others are put on a high horse for erasing history and stealing others history.
topcat seriosblack I’m honestly curious what are you referring to?
Yeah, I usually download the audio and listen to it on my early morning run but I couldn't hear this one.
Yes, I too had difficulty hearing it.
Mason's videos are always quite low volume but this one was particularly low.
bro the music is way too loud
@Ennward H you one of those "dumb" ones hey? 🤦♂️
mate its in the the video for about 2 min stfu
Far West = Americas and Middle West = Britain/ France / Spain and the West = Europe
Two can play that game !
I am Mexican-American and my DNA test came back 34% Middle Eastern and 34% European and the rest Native American. I know where my Middle Eastern comes from and that is from my dad's father whom he never met. We believe he was from Lebanon or Syria.
And then there is all those southern Spanish with Arab and Amazhigh ancestry too.
do a dna test
@@_robustus_ it's very minor though, in the case of arab dna
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Yes. A Moroccan friend told me that Arabs that came to Al Andalus were outnumbered by Amazigh.
@@_robustus_ Yes and just like a great amount of spaniards, the berbers were a mediterranean people.
Hi Masaman, Your way of tracing the root of the races are very accurate as long as South India and Sri Lanka is concerned because as I am from Sri Lanka I can say that. Through one of your video only I came to know that Persia was called Eelam many thousands of years ago but no historians hasn't heard of it in South India or Sri Lanka. But surprisingly the Tamils of Sri Lanka call Sri Lanka Eelam. The Sinhalese migrated in Sri Lanka before 2500 years ago after Buddha made three pilgrimage visit to Sri Lanka from Bengal and asked them to migrate Sri Lanka. Even the Maldivians and Lactivians are migrated at the same time from there because they speak a similar language like Sinhalese.
Yes, Persia was called Elam. Elamites were the indigenous people of Iran. The first Iranian civilizations are Susa, Elamites (Elam civilization), Jiroft civilization and Shahr-e Sukhteh, 6,000 BC. The indigenous people of Iran were Caucasian (Caucasian race).
Most Persians are brunette and they have olive-skin and the rest are fair-skinned with green and blue eyes because Aryans (Indo-Europeans/Indo-Iranians) migrated to Iran/Persia and they mixed with the native Iranians (Susa, Elamites, and Jiroft civilizations, the oldest civilizations in the world.) who were brunettes and Olive.
That is why in all corners of Iran you can find blond and fair-skinned with green and blue eyes.
Iranians were a mix of Aryans and native Iranians. And Northern Indians and Pakistani are a mix of Aryans and Dravidians, the South and Central Indians are Dravidians.
@@kummaar1 You guys came from ancient Iran just like the
the North Indians . Our ancient ancestors were from there . But they got mixed up with other race of people including the Natives as well .
@@amestrismehrdadi7959 Thanks
What you are claiming here is a long, unscientific list of dubious statements. Just for your information, "Elam" was not exactly "Persia" in the true and traditional sense of it, and More importantly, the word "Elam" is an exonym given to the People in Southwest of midern day Iran, by the Mesopotamians. That people themselves called their land "Hatamti". The idea of Elamite(an isolate languague) being somehow connected to the Dravidian languague family is also a fringe lingustical suggestion; There is no convincing evidence showing Elamite being related to Dravidian family than it is to Indo-European or Semitic or Turkik etc.
Stay scientific and educate yourself.
@@amestrismehrdadi7959
This is literal, worthless pseudo-science you got here. I just copy my answer to the main comment, since Your text here barely deserves anymore attention:
What you are claiming here is a long, unscientific list of dubious statements. Just for your information, "Elam" was not exactly "Persia" in the true and traditional sense of it, and More importantly, the word "Elam" is an exonym given to the People in Southwest of midern day Iran, by the Mesopotamians. That people themselves called their land "Hatamti". The idea of Elamite(an isolate languague) being somehow connected to the Dravidian languague family is also a fringe lingustical suggestion; There is no convincing evidence showing Elamite being related to Dravidian family than it is to Indo-European or Semitic or Turkik etc.
Stay scientific and educate yourself.
fascinating as always but if you could please slow down the pace so we can follow along & also, sometimes i'm not sure if the image corresponds to narration exactly, might be clearly to have a tighter link?
Great video but please bring some quality to the audio. My genetics make my hearing bad. One Love - One Heart from the States.
I will talk about my country Egypt... the majority of the population speaks Arabic which makes us middle-easterner Arab according to modern western standards but it should be noted that the majority of Egyptians didn't define as Arab until the 30s for political reasons though they have been always seen as Arabs from European perspective... speaking traditionally native Fellahis are still distinguishable from Arab settlers especially in the South. Ottoman Turks and Arab tribes even used to call native Egyptians 'people of Pharoah' as an insult.
Summary :
1- from an oriental perspective Egyptians are not Arabs, from Western perspective Egyptians are Arabs
2- The truth is : Culturally Arabs, ethnically non-Arabs
But there has been substantial intermarriage and cultural blending. I think every country has its own special mix.
@@_robustus_ you just said it. each country has its own special mix so what is your point?
westerns (but also every non MENA people) refer even to iranians and afghans as "arabs"
@@sepep6288 Glad to see another Egyptian clearing up the nature of our national identity to foreigners. Although, I must say: We Egyptians speak Arabic, but our modern culture is quite different from that of the arabs. You can distinguish our traditional clothes, traditions from that of the Arabs. I've seen the Arabian culture, and I can say that we are different in aspects. Yes, there are similarities, but it's not like how foreigners here think that we are the exact same.
The Middle East and West Asia were never synonymous, and although West Asia makes up the Majority of the Middle Eastern region, it still doesn't make up the entirety of the region.
The Middle East is a geopolitical transcontinental region(not confined to a single continent) which includes Western Asia(not including the Caucasus), all of Egypt, and all of Turkey. It is a region that sits on the intersection of three continents(Africa, Asia and Europe). The geographical composition of the Middle East is based on shared culture, politics and history, rather than a shared continent. In the Middle East we don't go by continental identity which is a western concept.
Unfortunately the westerners stopped using the term "Maghreb" and just lumped all of north Africa together and this is where confusion ensues. This is why I always mention that when the term "North Africa" is being used in this context, it only refers to the Maghreb region rather than the entire top part of the African continent. Al Sharq Al Awsat(Arabic for the Middle East) is not synonymous with West Asia(Gharb Asya). Stop confusing this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
with this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia
You have one of the best channels on youtube....
Masaman videos are always great keep up good work
Masaman your videos kick ass. Forgive my criticism, I think it would be good to lower volume the music you play in the beginnings of your videos because your voice audio gets a bit obscured.
I have *a Moroccan friend* who is an *exact doppelgänger* of an *Afghan model* from Germany named *Zohre Esmaeli* :
so I just *had to introduce the two on my social media!*
she represents the brunette beautyy
@@moroccanatlaslioness66 My girlfriend is Algerian, and she looks like a nerdy version of Leila ben Khalifa! ptdr ! :D :P :D
then u must live in france, since there is a huge maghrebi diaspora there hahah
@@moroccanatlaslioness66 Malheureusement, non : car on vit au Canada !
C'est la France no. 3 !
@@Suite_annamite le quebecois hahahah
Great video once again. I’m Cuban and recently took a DNA test and got 18 percent WENA DNA. About 14 percent was Levantine from Lebanon which was of little surprise since my great grandmother was Lebanese and immigrated to Cuba with her family as a little girl in the 1920s. The other 4 percent was North African I’m presuming due to my Spanish ancestry especially since my paternal Grandfather was of Canadian Isleño descent.
Canarian*
@@JS-sh6dv WANA* if you mean West Asia and North Africa
I really enjoy your videos but this one went a little fast for so much information could you maybe break it into 2 videos?
Killin it with these videos, as always.
THE MIddle east is a geopolitcal name, it has no geographical validity.
I mean technically same with what we accept as continents. Afro-Eurasia was literally one big piece of land (before the Suez canal, which by cutting off Africa ironically made it easier to go from one end of Eurasia to the other.
What should he call it then. west asia?
@@Aurmm That excludes North Africa. Which is why the term is geopolitical.
I read that the south arabs are the most “pure” arabs (not drawing on any nationalist propaganda) but Mason did a south Arabia video and those sources showed some variance among them (due to contact with horn africans) and southern Saudis. The farther north and west one goes the less relationship with Yemenis. Similarly the levant is the mother of all crossroads. Back and forth for a half million years will do that. I think the main driver with levantines is of course the spread of Islam and southern arab genes, but also contact with the caucasus and Europe (crusaders and maritime trade being biggies).
Also btw in our time it’s easy to simplify semites to only arabs and jews. Most are not taking into account islamization and arabization. Other than the sumerians, pretty much the rest of mesopotamia were semites but not arab (assyrians, babylonians, akkadians, etc). Not only did Islam replace the remaining pagan beliefs but it encouraged people to think of themselves as and eventually become arabs. That’s why mesopotamia is a mix multiple semite groups with arabs added to it.
@Mø Nälayé
Look at the names of the kings of pre-Islamic Yemen that are not Arabic.
And look at the names of the kings of Palmyra, the Kingdom of Petra and the Kingdom of Arabaia. In Iraq, their names are Arabic and the Arabic language is classical. Originally from Iraq and The Levant
Yemen doesn't know how to speak Arabic as well as we Northern Arabs.
@Matthew Tenorio_3200654.
The Phoenicians were Arabs... Do you have any evidence that they're not Arabs?
Here we go lol.
@@mQCwi Do you have any evidence proving that you were not dropped on the head when you were an infant?
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Arab kingdoms in the north before Islamua-cam.com/video/v9u_4heA3d8/v-deo.html
Luv the thumbnail!😍 Not sure if I came away with a clear answer to the question...🤔
Such good videos Thank you.
I really wish you spoke about Cyprus abit! Stlll a great video. I would really love to see a video dedicated to this great island soon. Cheers!
yes!
I agree too, a Cyprus video would be great
Ghislaine Maxwell did NOT kill herself!
They'll keep her alive as a scapegoat
@@topg2820 her double got arrested, Maxwell is probably having the time of her life with Mossad
Her father is agent of Mossad, oy vey.
she is a MOSSAD agent and now a CIA double agent .
Can we get an f in the chat for Ghislaine Maxwell.
Did I miss it? The term Middle East was coined in the 19th century and brought into vogue by the 20th century through the British.
When I was in Slovakia my boyfriend and I were checking into a hostel and he was looking at a map and said out loud "what are we in Czechoslovakia now?" and the woman who worked at the hostel gave him the nastiest look and I said **Please forgive him.** because somehow he had missed the news that Czechoslovakia was no longer was a thing. It's always changing. If I refer to a person as Middle Eastern it is because I don't know where they are from but they have the appearance of someone from that region.... every person looks different though... I don't think of it as a specific skin color because they vary from pale to dark black but there are distinct features that only come from that area of the world.
@@mQCwi Egypt is not in West Asia. It still falls under the term 'middle east'.
I leave in masr (egypt in english) and i don't believe in the middle east term .. It is a colonialism term
I heard that on the 19th century there was only the near and far East with middle being added to the mix in the 20th century.
@@kauswekazilimani3736 - EGYPT IS IN NORTH EAST AFRICA SO IS ISRAEL AND PALESTINE REGION
Thanks for your work Masaman ! 😁
That question is indeed really blurry for North Africans (and even more for those who immigrated in France...)
I'd say, just to give proportions (poorly...), that culturally the footprint (For Maghreb Morocco, Algérie and Tunisia) is 70% from Arabic culture and 30% from Berberic... Ethnically speaking, it's probably inverted... (excluding the influence from Europe, while some say it equals or exceeds Arabic's ethnical influence, and excluding also Southern Africans who have probably more influence in Morocco's population due to thé possiblity to go around the Saharian barrier by thé coast...
One question, you did not mention Italy as influenced by Middle Eastern genetics, is it because they are more impacted by Northern Africans? Because, in my expérience, they seem to have, for a signifiant part of them , more facial characteristics in common with Moors than Scandinavians...
70% culturally Arab ?? That’s waaaay tooo much .
If you’re north African than watch stand up comedies or news about Arabs in general /stereotypes and tell me of you relate , because i don’t.
The only major components we share are language ( our dialect is unintelligible to the middle east so ..) and the religion ( which can differ based on the madh’heb ) ..
Also Arabs have taken a lot of our traditions .
So i’d say we have our own culture .
@@Sara-dv2nj I made that statement based on religion (which is culturally 100% Arab, even if it's application is really different in Maghreb, than in the Arab peninsula...), on language which I know is not understood by other "Arab" countries, but based (in a significant part) on Arab language with a lot of Amazigh dialects vocabulary and some French words here and there...
And also the fact that a large majority of people from Maghreb identify themselves as "Arabs", it's the case in France, but maybe it's the result of acculturation...
And last, all the leaders of the Magreb nations identify to Arabic culture first, sometimes dismissing Berberic heritage.
As I warn in my first message, it's just my personal analysis, based on what I can witness from where I am, I know that people from North Africa have really different points of view on this, don't take it too seriously because I don't myself...
Burisha Yes dear i know , i understand your opinion , but what our countries identify us don’t necessarily speak the truth.
Yes , Arabs did influence us , yes i’m partially Arab , i do agree with you on that , but our culture is different, and when we say culture we speak about superstitions , culinary traditions , traditional clothes , music ...ect
The percentage is what i don’t agree upon that’s all
Morocco has the most european influence half of northern morocco we have spanish or portuguese dna and not only subsaharan and we are more aware from our amazigh identity than our neighbours
plus algeria borders with mali niger and tchad, so they have more subsaharan influence than us, and tunisians are neutral
Masaman, when are you gonna stop confusing this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
with this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia
West Asia is part of the Middle East but it doesn't make up the entirety of the region. I know you have mentioned this but you still went back to referring West Asia as "the Middle East" which is incorrect. Even the title and the description section of your video shows that you don't understand the region. Also you need to familiarize yourself with context. "North Africans" in this context only refers to the Berber people of the Maghreb region(Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania) rather than the entire top part of the African continent. On the other hand, "North Africa" in its classical definition(the entire top part of the African continent) is the equivalence of West Asia and not the equivalence of the Middle East, because the Middle East is a transcontinental region that includes 1 North African country(Egypt). The Middle East is not confined to a single continent but West Asia is confined to...well, the Asian continent.
As the others it is a great and interesting video, which is packed with a lot of interesting facts..I watched the video many time in order to capture as much content as possible . I would appreciate a lot, if you would introduce more breaks in between to give us the chance to digest all those interesting facts! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge with us!
Great video...as all of them are. I am hoping you can take a little constructive criticism on the editing. For the most part I see three major types of visuals that you use, photographs, charts and maps with arrows, mainly. I have noticed the time spent on each one is roughly the same, where imo, the photographs and/or maps with flow arrows do not need much time to 'get them'...the graphs with charts and color coded sections are very interesting, but they are not shown long enough to really even, if not quickly comprehend them. I was wondering if you showed those complicated charts for filler and we were not meant to read them...it is what it seems...cause I am a fast reader....but not that fast. Anyway, great videos, amazing research and they way they are assembled and presented are awesome, great job!!
The first Portuguese explorers to reach the Canary Islands in the early 15th century described the natives as virtually indistinguishable from an average Iberian person in terms of looks, but who still lived in the stone age.
The Canary Islanders were untouched by later migrations to North Africa and represented the first wave of "caucasoid" migrations into North Africa during the neolithic era (8000 to 5000 BCE).
Tell me if I'm wrong but, have we be indoctrinated to view everything from the European perspective?
@@stomio6491 what would be the perspective be from eastern country?
@Micheal Hnat the narrative has to change.
If you are european then it's normal to see things from an european perspective...
@@jimcorleone7861 makes me wonder how the rest of the world view it.
@@Cedricbennettjr Take a wild guess. You make it seem like it is the west vs the rest of the world, like a crazy conspiracy. Each region has a more centric perspective of events. Western academia does not have to change, all other countries have the opportunity to tell their version and they do.
3:42 good that you cut into this you are mostly correct but I have to point out the Sub Saharan admixture in modern Egyptians is calculated to be an average of 7%. 10-20% are outliers and not typical for the general Egyptian population.
I love this channel🙂🙏🙏
Masaman, can you make a video about the least mixed ethnic groups in the world just for a change?
Suggestion for next video’s topic @masaman:
1. Are People from the Levant, Anatolia/Turkey, Caucasus and Northernmost Maghreb White people as European.
2. Are Northeast Asians(Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Tibetic people and Mongolian etc.) same race as Southeast Asians.
İnsan Do Anatolian/Turkish and Levantine are more similar to European or People from Arabia and Iranian by Appearance?
İnsan Levantine is more similar to Persian than European, right?
I’m Levantine, we do look similar to south Europeans, sometimes some look north European depending on the region, but most of us are lightly tanned like Greeks, Italians, Turks or Armenians 🤷🏻
The amount of anthropologists in this comment section is unbelievable
Your videos are so Educational and interesting. Blessings to you and your knowledge God blesses you with!
Good vid ,man. Informative. Looking through the comments,it seems you have haters and nit pickers. To hell with them.
just because you disagree with him you are a hater? lmao
@@__Amira__ just my perception. I should have worded it differently. Alot of the negative comments he gets are more than just disagreements.
IN NORTH AFRICA WE ARE IMAZIGHRAN 🇩🇿♓
berber
Egypt is mostly Fellahi with Arab and Berber minorities
Morocco and Mauritania are mostly Berbers\Moors\Libyans yeah but Algeria, Tunisia and Libya are mostly Arab...
As for the term 'Amazigh' it is a name of a very small Berber tribe in north Morocco but the term was used by Berber nationalists in the 50s to refer to all Berbers...
In other words Amazigh are one of the Berber tribes but not all Berbers are Amazigh... Kabayle, Sous, Zanatans, Tuareg, Rif,...etc are Berbers but not Amazigh
@@sepep6288
Amazigh nationalism french industry after the occupation of Algeria to strike Arab nationalism
The Arabs of Algeria are Phoenician Arab origins and still speak with Phoenician Arabic accents. And don't forget the Arab Tribe of Bani Hilal and Bani Salim
Most of Algeria is Arab.
@Khaver Paver What are you talking about? the berbers have big sub-saharan admixture?
Algeria is an Arab country with the Algerian constitution and the official language is Arabic. And a member of the Organization of the Arab League
Morocco is an Arab country with the Moroccan Constitution and a member of the Arab League and the official language of Arabic
Libya is an Arab country with the Libyan Constitution and a member of the Council of the Arab League and the official language of Arabic
Tunisia is an Arab country with the Tunisian Constitution and a founding member of the Arab League and the official language is Arabic
Mauritania is an Arab country with the Mauritanian Constitution and a member of the Council of the Arab League and the official language of Arabic
You Berbers have nothing in North Africa.
A great suggestion for the later topics to Masaman: How West Asian and Arab Pakistani is?
What do you mean?
Middle Eastern is not a race, ethnicity, culture, etc, it is a geographical region. We Persians/Iranians speak Persian, we have Persian culture. We Persians/Iranians are different from Arabs and Pakistanis. Our genetic is different from Arabs and Pakistanis. etc.
@@amestrismehrdadi7959 Most Muslims from Indian sub-continent think themselves Arabs/Persian/Turkic (whether they really are that's another question) more than 95% Muslims (population 600 million) have Arabic or Persian names although there is no dearth of Indian languages (Pakistan & Bangladesh are invented countries).
@@big_ostrich_egg7287 I mean do Pakistani have componentof Arab & West Asian.
@@xiangtianxie8214 Maybe certain tribes in these countries, but majority South Asians would share the same DNA.
Nice video! The music is a bit off putting however
I love your videos but the voice was pretty low on this one. Please fix that.
Love the videos Mason, you really do anthropology right
Can you please list the sources of your data. I’ve heard from reputable sources that Egyptians are a plurality North African DNA , not Arab.
Yes, that's true. They're not Arabs.
Would love to know more about the middle eastern migration to South Asia.
Hi Masaman, another suggestion the next video:
How do you define 'White People', is it only limited to 'Native' Europeans or people with European descent?
Indo Aryans are found in Europe perisa and india
I can't stand UA-cam self appointed historians who spew all sorts of nonsense with very little historical reference.
Can you make a video on Fulani people?
Dude you need to do something about the sound volume in your videos...
Cool video. People of the Klondike next.
Lebanon, please, Masaman! I love this channel, thank you for all of your excellent work doing this. I kid you not when I say that our family includes very strong genetic lineages from 100% Saami (my dad) 100% Stockholm (my mom) 100% Lebanese (father in law) and Cuba (mother in law). We have 3 who all look very different. I ❤️love❤️ seeing how we are all connected. Fascinating 🙏🏻
I think the MENA "ethnic" continuum has its application in the West, Usa, Canada, maybe even EU. Race and ethnicity are often simplified to what I see as a continuum. Think of Latin@; a whole host of different peoples and histories lumped together. Or African Americans, most of whom where stolen from very different cultures in Africa where "black" isn't a thing. I think you hit it on the head when you said people from the MENA are more concerned with maintaining tribal empire identities then coalescing their voice the way other minorities have.
Latinos and Arabs are almost the same lol, Latinos are just how Arabs would have evolved if they drank alcohol too lol
Will you ever do another video talking about the Melungeons? If so, I'm a Melungeon and would be happy to help out with any information you may need, including pronunciation :P
It means eggplant 🍆
@@kristingallo2158 what are you talking about?
Sorry - little late to the party! I liked your identification of near, middle and far east. I'd go one step further and label Japan as near west!
The only think we share with middle east is religion which make us Learn Arabic, our culture is totally different as their culture.
Exactly
but morocco is ruled by arab royal not amazigh u r follower of arab culture and arab ruler
You have your channel for years now. It’s time you invest in good microphones. I can barely understand you.
Hey Masaman I’m really wondering what happened to Manchu People.It’d really good if you make a video about this.
(Btw I know today almost 10 million Manchus living in Manchuria but the majority is Chinese and I don’t know how it’s happened.)
They simply integrated into the society as a Han. That’s what everyone in China is doing regardless of their former ethnic identity.
I'm interested in a video on Suriname and it's neighbors in S. America. I always forget it's not in Asia, and I never hear it's mention here in the US as far as heritage goes
Great video mason but please try to mix the audio a bit better next time your voice is being drowned out by the music
I had to stop the video because it was so goddamn annoying. Did he even preview his own video?
Proud of my Lebanese orthodox and Assyrian roots🇱🇧🇮🇶
Proud of be descendent of Charlesmagne and kings and queens of H.R.E, France too.
I'm proud of being white English.. Not proud about the atrocities my ancestors caused. But we all have some crazy ancestors right! Back in the day before all the mixing, there must have been big genetic and visual differences between nations. I would love to see a movie set before the Bronze age collapse. A movie that would span the globe showing us all the different races,, part fiction part historical fact.
Assyrian? aren't Orthodox Lebanese Roman Greeks?
@@markmorris7123 well the English did leave a lot of good in places they left. As a coptic, I know some of the ancient artefacts will be looked after better in the UK.
I am proud to be Eritrean orthodox 🤗🤗
As always very good
Have you done a video exclusively on Lebanese people?
7:32 Greece almost certainly wasn't whiter or more "Nordic" in antiquity. This is also seen in their artworks.
Children of Turks also became Muslim. There were also Celtic and Slavic invasion into Greece.
The Greek genepole generally was very stable.
My dna test says I'm middle eastern and Greek, and yes I'm what you would call white.
@@kristingallo2158
greeks ain't " white" they are olive . copee skinned
@@jackal25301 they're still considered Caucasian and not all Greeks are copper skinned. Y'all believe to many stereotypes. For real.
Phoenicians came west out of the Arabian Peninsula into the Mediterranean circa 3500 bc. Settled in Egypt, the near east, north Africa and were the forerunners of the Canaanites, Judeans, Carthaginians, etc.
You shouldn't spread misconceptions !
The "Phoenicians came from Arabia" thing is not only false but has been disproven time & time again !
Masaman - BIG favor! Look at the 4 girls on the photo @5.14. Where was this photo taken? If not the region, at least the country. The one on the extreme right is a photocopy of my daughter!!! My wife and I are Spanish, but her paternal side is Canarian and maternal is Balearic, and I'm sure she has Berber ("Guanche" - waiting for the genetic results)). I'm Catalan/Castillian/Basque.
did you get the results?
that picture is likely from Ossetia / or one of the Russian Muslim regions. He's talking about the Caucuses and they have Cossack hats on.
Nice video. Have you seen the reports that south east asians might have migrated into america via Ecuador in the precolombian time?
If I'm not mistaken, genetics points to this and this is therefore widely accepted as fact? I'm no expert tho 🤔
Not in any great numbers and even scant contact is debated still.
The Middle East and West Asia were never synonymous, and although West Asia makes up the Majority of the Middle Eastern region, it still doesn't make up the entirety of the region.
The Middle East is a geopolitical transcontinental region(not confined to a single continent) which includes Western Asia(not including the Caucasus), all of Egypt, and all of Turkey. It is a region that sits on the intersection of three continents(Africa, Asia and Europe). The geographical composition of the Middle East is based on shared culture, politics and history, rather than a shared continent. In the Middle East we don't go by continental identity which is a western concept.
For people who don't know: *_“North Africans” in this context only refers to the_* Berber people of the Maghreb region. Egypt is not a Maghrebi country, it is a Mashriqi/Middle Eastern country. Context here is very important.
“Meanwhile, "North Africa", particularly when used in the term Middle East and North Africa (MENA), often refers only to the countries of the Maghreb.”
Another important point is that Iraqis and other Arab states within west Asia, don't identify as "West Asian" and Egypt doesn't identify as "North African" but they both identify as Mashriqi aka Middle Easterners. We use regional identity rather than continental identity. Very important to keep in mind.
@Masaman Egypt, The Levant, the Balkans and Turkey were part of the Near East(that too was never confined to just Asia). The Near East was the term in more common use during the 19th and early 20th century. The term “Middle East”, if employed at all, only referred to the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran. But later, the “Middle East” gradually came to encompass both areas(excluding the Balkans). This change in definition and terminology usage began taking place during World War 2 when Egypt was the site of the Allies’ Middle East supply center.
But there is more to it if you want to go further in understanding the origins of these divisions which precedes the western terminologies of those regions.
There is actually a very deep meaning to this geographical division that precedes the Eurocentric terminologies of the region. So we have to go all the way back to the actual concept of this geographical/geopolitical division. What we call the “Middle East” region was originally an Arab invention/concept created way before the western terms “Middle East/Near East” even existed. The original term for the Middle Eastern region was “Al Mashriq” (ٱلْمَشْرِق) which is Arabic for “Where the sun rises”, referring to the Eastern part of the Arab world(Egypt, Levant, Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.) In the 19th century the Western term “Middle East/Near East” was created and used to basically describe the same region that the Arab medieval historians and geographers created in the 14th century. The region was originally a division conducted by Medieval Arab Historians and Geographers such as Ibn Khaldun to geographically divide the Arab world based on the cultural, political and historical differences between the Western Berber Maghreb region(Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco) and the Eastern Mashriq part of the Arab world(Egypt, Levant, Arabian Peninsula and Iraq). When the Europeans came along in the 19th century, they created the newer terms for the same region(Middle East/Near East/the Orient) and towards the 19th and 20th century they gradually added the non Arab countries(Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, and Iran). The word “Maghreb”, the opposite region to the Middle East, also called “Al Maghreb” or “Al Maghreb Al Araby”(المغرب العربي) is Arabic for “where the Sun sets”, and it refers to the western part of the Arab world, which are the North African countries beginning with Libya and ending with Morocco(sometimes Mauritania is included). “Al Mashriq” (ٱلْمَشْرِق) is modern day Middle East, while “Al Maghreb” is now what people call “North Africa” which does not really constitute the entirety of North Africa but just those Berber states.
The funny thing is that the British continued using the original Arabic term for the “Maghreb” for a very long time until the newer generations just started calling it “North Africa”, which brings a lot of confusion today.
I wanted to go back on identity. If we are going to base race on continents then I would like to tell you, Egypt is an Afro Asian country via the Sinai Peninsula. The country is situated on both the African and Asian continents. So what are they? Asian? African? No, it is just that continental identity is very flawed and I will explain why below.
So basing an ethnicity or race solely on a continental basis is very flawed. This is why we use Regional identity in the Arab world and not continental ones. Continental identity is flawed on so many levels. A continent does not determine your ethnicity/genetics. For example, Two countries can be on the same continent yet be thousands of miles apart, while 2 other countries can be on two different continents yet be just a few meters apart. A single country can even be situated on 2 continents, they are called transcontinental nations that are not confined to a single continent such as Egypt which is a country situated on both the African and Asian continents, or Russia that is in both Europe and Asia, Turkey is in both Asia and Europe, etc. We don’t go by continents in the Arab world when it comes to ethnic identity, we go by regional identity instead, such as the Middle East and the Maghreb.
Calling an Egyptian “African” is like calling an Iraqi “Asian”. Continental identity is flawed. For example, An Egyptian American doesn't identify as “African American” and an Iraqi American doesn't identify as “Asian American” but they both identify as Middle Eastern Americans or Arab Americans. “African American“ refers to Americans that are of subsaharan descent while “Asian American” refers to Americans of East Asian descent(sometimes south Asian descent is included) so just because nations are in a shared continent, it does not mean they are all related. For example, Iraqis have no genetic nor cultural relations to the Chinese. You are more genetically related to the nations that are geographically closer to you more so than being related to the nations that might be on the same continental plate as you but are thousands of miles apart. This is why the Middle East is not continental based, but it is a transcontinental region.
Most of Egypt is in Arica, the sinaï
peninsula is the only thing that connects us with the other Middle Easterners,most of Egypt is North-Africa and Egypt had a greater influence on North-Africa.
I couldnt agree more
@@houseplant1016 Again, the Middle East and West Asia are not synonymous. You are confusing the Middle East with West Asia. West Asia is just part of the Middle East but it doesn't make up the entirety of the region. The Sinai peninsula connects Africa with West Asia, not with the Middle East(for the tenth time, the 2 are not synonymous). The fact that the Sinai Peninsula is in West Asia has nothing to do with the fact that the entirety of Egypt is part of the Middle East. The Middle East is not confined to a single continent. The Middle East includes 1 north African country(Egypt) 1 Eurasian country(Turkey) and the rest of the region is in West Asia. How is that hard to understand? And no, Egypt has nothing to do with the Maghreb region. Our closest ties to the Maghreb region is with Libya and that's it. The reason to why there is a division between the Maghreb and the Mashriq(Middle East) in the first place, is due to the cultural and historical differences between the 2 regions. How can you call yourself an Egyptian and not know this? Do you even know AL Maghreb al Araby and Al Mashriq Al 3raby? Unfortunately the westerners stopped using the term "Maghreb" and just lumped all of north Africa together and this is where confusion ensues. This is why I always mention that when the term "North Africa" is being used in this context, it only refers to the Maghreb region rather than the entire top part of the African continent. Al Sharq Al Awsat(Arabic for the Middle East) is not synonymous with West Asia(Gharb Asya). Stop confusing this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
with this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia
@@TheEgyptianOne Yeah I understand the differences,I wanted to indicate we have a lot in common with our fellow North-Africans. Egypt also had a great influence in history over North-Africa.There are cultural differences but you'll understand if you go to these countries.
@@houseplant1016 How dude? We can't even understand their dialect. I usually make fun of Iraqis and call them the Moroccans of the Middle East due to their difficult dialect. Iraq is known to have the most difficult dialect in the region but when compared to Morocco's impossible to understand dialect, the Iraqi dialect seems like a cake walk lol. Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians use many Amaziegh and french terminologies which makes it impossible for an average Arabic speaker to understand.
I wanna learn Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Kurdish languages (not now). But, I'm only Malay person (Indonesian state) who will make Arabian, Persian, Turkish, and Kurdish friends.
Me but after 2years
Cool video
After the fall of Granada and Andalusia in general, Muslims of different ethnicities were expelled to northwest Morocco, western Morocco, the city of Fez and other cities And the Andalusian places of settlement are known
As a North African specifically Egyptian, I'm not gonna say we're different from middle East, because middle East is a political term that changes its geography based on the situation, sometimes it's meant to be from Morocco to the west to Iran from the east, other times from Egypt to Iran,
I would say we North Africans specially us Egyptians are ethnically way different from west Asia ( levant countries + gulf countries and Iran + Turkey) we don't even look like them in most cases
Egyptians are descendent of ham, noah's son and that says everything however we might be influenced by Arab culture to some extent
Morocco is not in middle east honey, but in the Maghreb wich literaly means the West the oposite of the MID-EAST. We are amazigh and morisco/andalusians not arabs, proudly North Africans
Egyptians are defendants from ancient Egypt
North Africans are descendants from Caananites. I don't know about Morocco and West Algeria but most North Africans have Middle Eastern DNA
THERE are no way that people who do not genetically and featurally look black can be coming from a black person ; this is all being presented as an afrocentric washing and the Egyptians believed this successfully ; it is not because there are brown people , we call them black and hamitic .
@@KNG-fm1kj non imposible haplogroup J is not haplogroup e
I would love to hear about genetic middle eastern influence in the greek islands, particularly the dodecanese. All of my family members from there who have done genetic testing show up as 1/3 to 2/3 middle eastern
Great vid bro!!!!
Masaman please do a video on the different regions in Arabia
I don’t get why Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are referred to as former Soviet republics like I get that they were republics in the Soviet Union but there’s much more to their identity than just being ruled by the Soviets at one point in near history. Like, they have one obvious trait in common and that is making up the Caucasus region as a whole.
Being associated with the USSR sounds badass though.
@@metalji_20s You have a point.
Still waiting on a “Who are the Palestinians” video. Very interested in what you could dig up!
Fakestinians are arabs, , xtian . sunni , shiite from many middle eastern countries, who came to Israel. they are designated by tribe and last name. The plo was conceived by yasser arafat and the former soviet union in 1964 before that they were just called arabs.
@@18roseloverDon't be fooled by hasbara propaganda erasing Palestinian history. Palestinians existed before israel and ancient Israel.
HISTORY OF PALESTINE 1150 BCE through 1500 CE
This is an incomplete history, but does show a Palestinian history prior to the Kingdom of Israel and the Roman Empire, and that Palestine existed through history.
BCE
1150 BCE Land of “Peleset” referred to in numerous Egyptian heiroglyphics, refering to their neighbors during the 20th dynasty
First mention was in the texts at the temple of Medinet Habu referring to the “Sea People during Ramsses III reign.
800 BCE The Assyrians called them the Palashtu or Pilistu. There were references to them for over a century.
5th century BCE- Herodotus wrote about Palaistine in The Histories^ In his work, Herodotus referred to the practice of male circumcision associated with the Hebrew people: "the Colchians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians, are the only nations who have practised circumcision from the earliest times. The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine themselves confess that they learnt the custom of the Egyptians.... Now these are the only nations who use circumcision." The History of Herodotus
^ Beloe, W., Rev., Herodotus, (tr. from Greek), with notes, Vol.II, London, 1821, p.269 "It should be remembered that Syria is always regarded by Herodotus as synonymous with Assyria. What the Greeks called Palestine the Arabs call Falastin, which is the Philistines of Scripture."
^ Elyahu Green, Geographic names of places in Israel in Herodotos This is confirmed by George Rawlinson in the third book (Thalia) of The Histories where Palaestinian Syrians are part of the fifth tax district spanning the territory from Phoenicia to the borders of Egypt, but excludes the kingdom of Arabs who were exempt from tax for providing the Assyrian army with water on its march to Egypt. These people had a large city called Cadytis, identified as Jerusalem.
4th century BCE Aristotle wrote about the Dead Sea in Palestine in his book, Meteorology,
"Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say that this lake is so bitter and salt that no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them," an obvious reference to the Dead Sea.
Later writers such as Polemon, and Pausanias also used the term to refer to the same region. This usage was followed by Roman writers such as Ovid, Tibullus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder,[15] Statius, as well as Roman-era Greek writers such as Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom and Roman-era Judean writers such as Philo of Alexandria[16] and Josephus.
135 CE After the Bar Kokhba Revolt, the Romans called it Syria Palaestina
*In Hebrew, the name Palestine (פלשת) and the name Philistine (פלשתי) are pretty much the same, and Philistine literally means One Of Palestine. The Philistines are descendants of the Casluhim, who were sons of Mizraim, son of Ham, son of Noah (Genesis 10:14).
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Peleshet (פלשת Pəlésheth)- usually translated as Philistia in English, is used in the Bible more than 250 times.
In the Torah / Pentateuch the term is used 10 times and its boundaries are undefined. The later Historical books (see Deuteronomistic history) include most of the biblical references, almost 200 of which are in the Book of Judges and the Books of Samuel, where the term is used to denote the southern coastal region to the west of the ancient Kingdom of Judah.
1500s
As for the early population of Palestine, even the Jewish virtual library puts the Jewish population at less than 2% in 1517 ( www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/israel_palestine_pop.html )
According to the founder of Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics Roberto Bachi there were :
219 000 Muslims,
11 000 Christians and
only 2 000 Jews in the year 1690.
So Muslims were the vast majority. Even by each Palestinian city, you can see that. In the middle of the 16th century for example Hebron had 749 Muslim taxable households to only 20 Jewish. Jerusalem had 7,287 Muslims and only 1,363 Jews. Nablus 806 Muslim households to only 15 Jewish. Safed had 1,121 Muslim households to 716 Jewish (Jewish community of Safed was just formed at that time of Jewish refugees from Spain).
SHAKESPEARE
there are also references to "Palestine" in Shakespeare. In Othello, Act 4, scene 3, "I know a lady in Venice would have walked bare-foot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip". In King John, Act 2, Scene 1, "fought Holy Wars in Palestine". Othello was written between 1601 and 1604. King John Was written in 1594-1596.
1600s
"Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata" - a detailed geographical survey of Palestine in 1696 written in Latin by Adriaan Reland published by Willem Broedelet, Utrecht, in 1714.
ernie kleinman Palestinians are not ethnically Arab, just by culture. And even then, there are remnants of unique Palestinian culture and dialect rooted back prior to arabization of the Levant. Palestine is simply another name for Israel, it’s the same region of land. Palestinians don’t solely exist to remove Jewish history from the Holy Land.
Palestinians are the natives of the holy land
you can find individuals of every shade of skincolor be it white, whitish-tan, whitish-olive, tannish-olive, olive, brownish-olive and brown. Or Black in parts of Yemen and the Sahel.
The only thing same in the Middle East is religion and place of residence. For example, Persians and Arabs are completely different. In general, Iranians are a mixture of Indo-European immigrants and Iranian farmers of the Neolithic age, which makes up about 85% of DNA, but the Persian language and culture and in general Iranian Indo-European. They were Zoroastrians in the past and they worshiped a god named Zoroastrian, although they became Muslims, but Nowruz, which is an ancient festival during ancient Iran and the Achaemenid Empire, is still Christmas for Iranians after 2,500 years, and the year begins with Nowruz. On the contrary, the people of the Levant, who do not have the same genetics as the Arabs and have lighter skin than the Arabs, but their culture and language are completely Arabic. The same is the case with the Caucasian people. In general, the Middle East cannot be seen as the same
You really explained it.
Hi from oman in the Arabian peninsula
So can you do a video about khaleeji Arabs
What is that?
All i wanna say is we humans are fascinating and gorgeous and the best species honestly closely followed by dolphins and crows
@Samy I don't think Humans are the best "species ".
Good video.
The basic tone of a given culture may reflect a so-called "rationalist" (of greco-roman-christian origin) form of patriarchy, but elsewhere it can be a magical-irrational, or a passive form, or even a tendency to an active or passive matricentrism. This surely brings some mostly symbolic and charming signs of differences between peoples