so what was slavic about this show?

Yeah, it is far fetched. And just because we were homogenous does not mean we were inbred, ty very much. And no, this idea does not come from Hollywood. I am from the Czech Republic, and it is very well known and researched among historians that we were for more than thousand of years, when Slavs came to the region, pretty homogenous people of central Europe, easily over 99 percent. Basically only a few Roma people came to the region when it comes to diverse groups of people starting from the 13th century and they did not integrate very well to this day.

Merchants and traders traded only to the next city from which trade continued by different merchants. Merchants were not traveling the whole world to sell a few items. Travelling was very dangerous, so they traveled only through the regions they knew. And they had families to take care of and friends to spend time with.

When they have opened the Persian embassy 3-4 centuries ago in Prague, it was seen as something completely unique, an attraction even, because people did not have previous interaction with people like Persians, who look very similar to white Europeans to begin with. Even in Prague, the capital city of Bohemia, one of the most populous cities in Europe at the time. So common interaction with Asians or Black people is completely out of question.

I have read the way they now support the idea that there were a lot of black people in Britain during the time of the Roman Empire is that Roman emperor Trajan (I think) should have met one black soldier who gave him information while in Britain. But the reason why we remember it is because the emperor thought that a black person approaching him is a bad omen which signals he is going to die soon. It does not sound like someone who interacts with many black people all that often. And he was an emperor traveling around his large empire and saw all kinds of people. And the Roman empire was more diverse as a whole then Europe centuries later. So if anything, it shows how even the Roman empire was not so used to that much of diversity as they try to portray nowadays. It was mostly cultural diversity of the Medditerian region, not so much ethnic diversity from all over the world.

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