For much of Rome's rise, up to shortly before the Empire, not even other Italians were eligible for citizenship, you had to be Roman.
Sigh. It’s hard to know if people are being purposefully obtuse. Rome, like England and Mongolia, was a mono-racial culture when it began expanding. My point was, which country invited lots of different ethnicities and races into its borders, and THEN started expanding?https://twitter.com/ComradeDad/status/1171260674946883584 …
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Most people don't even know this.
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Wooo look at those goalposts go!
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All these Empires start collapsing when their unity of culture and people is affected by over-extension. Coherent states and nations expand because of their success and/or for their imperialist need (expansion is a basic instinct of most living beings)
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Rome again. They invited the Etruscans (different culture and ethncity) in to rule them at the founding of the the city. Hell, for the first couple of hundred years Rome was basically a mishmash of Latin tribes.
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The Romans and Etruscans fought wars with each other. The romans didn't invite the Etruscans to rule. People always get that one wrong.
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United States - Ellis Island, expansion after that
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Wasnt it almost exclusively Europeans that came in through Ellis Island? I dont think that fits today's idea of "diversity"
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One color but many cultures. See discussion about ‘homogenous’ South America
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Many cultures with a common thread of Christianity and Western Values
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i, too, have never heard of alexander the great.
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The Byzantine and Ottoman Empires are other examples of empires that were multi-cultural before they ramped up their expansions.
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England was mostly of two cultures. The Anglo and Norman aristocracy that spoke French. Expansion into the continent and Ireland yielded what we retroactively call the Angevin Empire.
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Man, them goalposts be whizzing!
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USA?
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Literally all of them, also these "mono-racial cultures" never existed. Mongolia was a tribal confederation and probably the most culturally and ethnically diverse from the start, England was an extremely diverse mix of Roman, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Norman-French
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Stefan 2200 BC: I mean, have you ever heard of someone using wheels on a chariot THEN using it to carry stuff around? Any time in history?pic.twitter.com/jb9cXDQnte
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