It was Bob Marley who sang that “2000 years of history could not be wiped away so easily.”
Lucius Septimius Bassianus (April 4, 188 – April 8, 217), commonly known as Caracalla, was a Black Roman Emperor who ruled from 211 to 217.
Caracalla was the eldest son of Septimius Severus, the first black African-born Emperor of Rome. But before Septimius Severus, there had been other Roman-born black Emperors of Rome. This story of the other black emperors of Rome will be explored in another write-up, but for now we focus on Caracalla.
Unlike his father Septimius Severus, Caracalla was born and raised in Italy. After the death of his father, he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until the latter’s death in 211.
Caracalla’s reign was notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana, granting Roman citizenship to freemen throughout the Roman Empire. That act laid a foundation for a peaceful multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Empire that Rome was to become.
Caracalla was mean towards the military incursions of the Goths, the Parthians and the Tartars, and he took brutal and extreme steps to suppress those invaders from Turkemenistan that were sorely troubling the cohesion of the Roman state.
A modern-day British historian Edward Gibbon, a descendant of the Goths, referred to him as, “the common enemy of mankind” because of the massacres he authorized in various parts of the empire.
In AD 213, Caracalla went north to the German frontier and subdued the Alamanni tribesmen who were causing trouble in the Agri Decumates. Due to that feat the Senate conferred upon him the title of “Germanicus Maximus”.
In AD 216, Caracalla took on the Parthians, a related tribe of the Goths, (the Parthians are the ancestors of the modern day Farsi-Iranians) who were causing problems on the southernmost flank of the empire. He tricked the Parthians into believing that he accepted a marriage and peace proposal, but then launched a series of blistering attacks on the Parthians when their guards were down. The thereafter ongoing conflict and skirmishes became known as the Parthian war of Caracalla.
The baths of Caracalla were the largest public baths ever built in ancient Rome. To put it in historical perspective, the central room of the baths was larger than St. Peter’s Basilica. It could easily accommodate over 2,000 Roman citizens. The bath house opened in 216, complete with libraries, private rooms and outdoor tracks. Caracalla ordered the building of those baths that are named in his honour.
Caracalla was assasinated by his body-guard while travelling from Edessa to continue the war against Parthian. He died on April 8, AD 217.
It is important that Africans should remember and celebrate Caracalla and his family line, i.e. the Severan Dynasty, because as black Africans, they were us and we are them.
By the dint of their heritage, they were part of our legacy, and their attainments represented part of our unfolding tale of greatness, of towering historical achievements, of courage, regency and inimitable genius.
The descendants of the Goths who conquered Rome, and now control historical narratives, would want you to believe that they were the real Romans. Through centuries of selective narration and faking of historical artefacts, they have largely succeeded in hiding the central role of the Africans in the defunct Roman empire.
They hide the facts that the Goths and the Parthians (the ancestors of the present day Germans, Russians, British, Spanish, Italians, and Iranians…the Aryans!!!) were the mortal enemies of the dark Ibero-Maurisian Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Libyans, and Numidians, Mauritanians, and Saharans, the original owners of western Europe. They promote a fake and false notion that Rome was a so-called white created civilization affiliated with their Gothic ancestry. But this is a lie!
Again we chant, blessings on the memorial of the Severan Dynasty, they were the “naigre” Emperors of Rome, from Africa. We will be meeting more Black Roman Emperors in the next series.
Oguejiofo Annu
September 25, 2010
Jahdey mate, Roman culture was Roman culture, not African. It originated from the Latin tribes based around the tiny city of Rome, which at that time was still dominated by Etruscans.
As for Rome being a Carthaginian colony? That’s just stupid. Carthage was a Phoenician colony and was not even in existence when Rome was founded…by LATIN people. That you could even think to call Romans Carthaginians just serves to demonstrate your ignorance of history.
Yes, Rome was a large, multicultural and multiethnic empire. But its cultural achievements are largely its own. That is, indigenous to the Romans. They borrowed extremely heavily from the Greeks.
By the way, the Egypt that Rome conquered was one of the Hellenic succesor states of Alexander’s Macedonian empire. Ptolemaic Egypt had about as much in common with Ancient Egypt as the USA has with native american tribes. That is to say…stuff all.
Then how was hannibal ( B.C. 247-183)able to invade Rome if it wasn’t established yet? If it wasn’t in existence, than he shouldnt have been able to conquer Rome. Who is ignorant now?
Rome has nothing of its own. Except for materialism, but they could have stole that from Greece. All the gods were stolen from Greece and they stole from ethiopians. Lmao…I guess you pinks do the same today! Anything us muurs create you steal.
Alexander the cagot invaded Egypt in 332 B.C. after they were well trained in all sciences. Their schools, libraries, and temples were already built. All Alexander the homosexual did was destroy important knowledge that educated the pinks.
He didn’t say anything about Rome not existing in 242 b.c., what he said was that Carthage didn’t exist when Rome was founded (I think that was something like 700 b.c.)
Didn’t mean to put “conquer” it was suppose to be invade
The severan dynasty of rulers look black to me and certainly not white.The ancient Romans didn’t view themselves as white but more of an intermediary race of people a brown race and certainly not at all a pale face. There’s no such a thing as being Afro-centric , all black people is trying to do is tell the truth and restore the race back to its proper place in history which has been hidden purposely by the oppressors and racist, afrocentric is simply a term created to avoid the fact that blacks laid the foundation to most world civilizations.
the latin from latinum is the base or all european an euro american language we the muurs before we were called black raised the euopen sons with keeping in mind the word son an father who taught u to speak ,no child teaches the muther father to speak an on that foundation alone an classical latin being our national language called a dead language an the branding of a dead people necro negro,, who taught who to speak latin before vulgar cannot be minimized after by hizztory ,relgion an the english slavey bleac to black spell.combined with what nehesy has comveyed heres is no white foundation of any strength to stand on any longer to say ther was no sign of black an thy need say there is signn of white in full life law or nobles landlords muthers fthers of civilization who were us the muurs not paleskin aryans teaching latin to paleskin.on the chess board position is everything an our the muurs position is being played by everything other then us for profit by false prophets ,poisoning our position,when u here black wasnt here black wasnt there know it white/bleac wasnt there either , those albions know they bleac . dont let k fool u as to who wasnt there cause they remove c when they type bleac/black ,,they was bleac first negro java first why dont he type that rememmber that bleac instead of black we the moors/muurs were there before the race was created with the letter o at the end negro latino
I guess I wonder, if you set the bar for “blackness” so low as to include Caracalla, is there anyone that isn’t black?
Mixed BLACKS ARE INDEED BLACK BY USA STANDARDS, SO WHY WOULDN’T CARACALLA BE BLACK USING THOSE STANDARDS…….
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My mother was from West Africa, and she didn’t have full lips,a wide nose, nor very dark skin like people from the region, and I have some people on my mothers side that also have these traits, but some have dark skin with pointy noses and thin lips, similar to people of Sudan, Somalia, and the mummies of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, but they are from West Africa.