AFRICAN ROMAN EMPERORS
Rome was not a nation. It was founded around ideals of civilized life and its domain extended, during the peak era of its power(PAX Romana), from Rome to Leptis Magna in north Africa through to the south of the British isles, to parts of Asia. Rome was not a tribe nor a national group. Putting it simply, "these were just a bunch of thugs that could not read or write but could fight like hell... they were the forerunners of what we know today as the 'mafia'." -Dr John Henrik Clarke.
Starting with the group of people known as etruscans in the South of what is today Italy and Sardinia, it was a protection group from its inception, programed toward resisting the scattered tribes in the north, up to Corsica, who were at loggerhead with the south, towards what's today Sicily. They grew in organization and the plundering of others, who would not give them what they demanded. Prominent among the group was one Romanus and his brother. They grew stronger in this way over time, and in the 1st century BC, began to take over tribal lands of nomadic people in the Alps, exploiting them to build the superstructure of what they later developed into an empire, while forcing in new ways of life, that they considered 'civilized' on the 'conquered' peoples.
They learnt to read and write along the way, when they took over North Africa (as one of their most enduring possessions, especially Carthage and Kemet which the Greeks, during the invasion of Alexander, son of Philip of Macedonia, had changed the name Kemet to Egypt, a Greek word in etymology). The Greeks who had studied under African scribes in Kemet, were now 'enslaved' by this group from Sardinia who were now known as Romans. They, along with Kemetians, taught Romans the art of lettering and the 'written word.' From then on, Greece declined into the Roman expanding superstructure.
Rome was hated by those they conquered, but their 'efficiency at building and construction impressed even the enslaved.' Romans learnt African concept of spirituality among the north African population that they had 'conquered' and in this way developed the concept of gods like 'venus' (the god of love), 'mars' (the god of war) and so on. The Roman church was later to convert these deities into the concept of saints.
Rome had a plethora of gods, but its true religion was the cult of the city...urbanism. This, according to several historical records, "astonished even the enslaved." And Rome made it a noble thing for anyone to be given 'Roman citizenship.' This came with privileges and it also meant that the 'citizen' was under the protection of great Rome, viewed to be the military power of the time... Just like even a criminal or corrupt politician can today take American citizenship for protection.
Africans, negroid Greeks of that time, Asians and southern people of Europa became Roman citizens.
Eight black Africans were to later become Roman emperors... Septimus Severes(died in 212 CE, and was buried in York, British isles) and his son, Caracalla(was also buried in York), Aemilian, Madcrinus, Pescennius, Varius Avitus Bassianus aka Elagabalus or Heliogabalus(218-222 CE), Otto I (Married to Edith of England 929 CE), Isaac I. Kemnenos aka Comnenus(was Byzantium emperor between 1057-1059 and the first of the Komnenos dynasty), Vitellius(69 CE): most are bearing Roman names, just the way Africans and Europeans today bear hebrew-aramaic and Arabic names because of Judeo-christian and islamic influence around the world. This was before the ugly concept of 'racialism' began in Europe in the 15th century CE.
THE FALL OF ROME came abruptly in 465 CE. It was caused by the unabated onslaughts of barbarian tribes in Europe. These Barbarian tribes eventually shattered Rome and what was left of it was Byzantium in the East.
Rome was not conquered from without. It was shattered from within.
There were about ten Europa's barbarian tribes that shattered Rome. These tribes included, The celts(Brits, before 5th century CE), The Anglo-Saxons (Brits after 5th century CE), Franks(French people today), Visigoths and Astrogoths (Spanish of today and some people of Iberia), Umbrians and Oscans, Almain, Goths, Vandals, Lombards (Germanic tribes), Gauls, Nordic Varangians (some Russians and Scandinavians today), Huns and Magyars, Picts(modern day scots of Scotland) etc. These tribes, put together are today the British people, Swiss, Spanish, Russians, Italians, Dutch, Germans... and they are descendants of those who were outsiders during the Roman era. None from the above barbarian tribes were ever a Roman governor or emperor or ruled under Rome. None whatsoever! They were scattered tribes that were conquered, and their lands became Roman provinces where Rome exploited. Of these tribes, the Vandals disappeared. They are a lost European tribe. There is no one Vandal in existence today, the world over.
Cassius Dio, a Roman historian, in the 1st century described one of these tribes in the British isles thus; "these tribes inhabit wild and waterless mountains and desolate and swampy plains... Possessing neither walls, cities nor tiled fields. They dwell in tents, naked and unshod. They are fond of plundering."
In 207 CE, a Roman general commanding a unit on the Hadrian wall on the border with Caledonia said this of the native tribes; "Barbarian there are in revolts. Overrunning the country, carrying off treasures and destroying most things." Despite this, British isles supplied lead, gold, tin and Copper which were crucial for making bronze to Rome. In order to elucidate on the situation on the British isles when the Romans first arrived on the isles, in about 55 BC, Cecirol, a Roman general who crossed the mainland to the isles wrote back; "these people are so dumb I don't know if could be able to make slaves of them."
In North Africa, the Africans had wanted to 'use the Arabs to get the Romans off their backs. And they did achieved this. But the Arabs replaced the Romans on their backs.' -Dr J. Henrik Clarke.
The Arabs convinced the African population to discard their ways of worship and spirituality...and the Africans obliged. But it was the Arabs who introduced Trans-Saharan slave trade and also paved the way for the return of western Europeans in the 15th century CE to Africa.
...Rome disintegrated. Europa had only Europa to feed on. Without the Roman 'exploitative' economy to hold things together, Europa degenerated, gradually but surely into the 'dark ages...' a period when western Europe degenerated back to primitive life (c. 565 CE - 1095 CE). This gave rise to British folklores, of the tales of giants who had built the palaces in Britain, palaces that in the 8th century CE were all in ruins and their gigantic mounds scattered about. For people who could not build such constructions, who had forgotten the Romans after centuries, the conclusions were that "those were works of giants" who had thread the isles. The dire conditions of this era was captured in the 9th century CE British poem known as "The Ruin."
The descendants of the barbarian tribes were the same ones who got into the Renaissance era in the middle ages, united on the bases of common interests, and were able to plunder and destroy most of the ancient civilizations that had existed in Africa and the Americas, that in most cases, were around, long before there was Greece or Rome.