The phrase "cherry picked" implies dishonesty on my part, I merely captured a screen from the game that showcased the trend that is ever present among Western productions. Even if there was only one Black soldier in the entire army my point would still stand. There is no evidence of Blacks ever serving in the third century republican Roman army and the whole thing seems ridiculous. Presenting Roman demographics in this way is dishonest and only serves to promote a very specific political agenda, which is being pushed by banks, corporations and the most powerful people in the world.
Yep. There's not a single black Roman soldier at that time, because back in that time, the Roman army was a citizen army. If there was a black guy going to Rome and getting citizenship in some way, we would know about it because it would have been exceptional. At the start date of RTW the only ones with proper citizenship were Latins, IIRC other Italics had the rank of socii at that time rather than full citizenship. Roman armies were as homogenous as it can get. There weren't even any white guys of other cultures serving as Roman soldiers.
Maybe auxiliaries or mercenaries but they wouldn't have the same equipment, and they would still
not be black.
The Roman Empire at its greatest extent? Yes, sure. There's a possibility of a bunch of black guys in the southern provinces joining the legions or serving as auxiliaries. They would even get citizenship after 20 years of military service. But that's more than a century after the start date of RTW, and even then they would be highly localized to legions recruited in the southern areas of the African provinces.
At the start date of RTW, I highly doubt there was even a single black guy in all of Italy. Not one.
Fast forward a couple of centuries and you
might see two or three of them. But even then their amount would be closer to what you can see in today's Eastern European countries, than in the modern west. Back when a good friend from Lithuania visited me 10 years ago, we saw three black guys at the railway station and she said: "Wow, I've never seen so many niggers in my life!" That's what your average Roman would think if he saw a group of three black guys.
Yes, even your average Roman soldier who was a veteran of several wars against Carthage, Numidia, Ptolemaic Egypt... well, maybe in Egypt he saw a couple of Nubians. Maybe.
