How did people of pre colonial era think about racial term?

>>2727482
Race did not exist in pre-colonial times

Well a simple example is that the ancient Greeks called all non Greeks barbarians.

>>2727482
Racial ideas developed under colonialism

After blacks and Indians became Christian, ancestry was used to perpetuate the hierarchies which elevated folks born in Europe over colonists over natives over slaves

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>>2727491
>>2727579
wow

>>2727482
Major divisions of people: Family -> Ethnicity -> Tribe -> Nation -> Color/Birthright -> Political Party

Depends on who
African tribes certainly considered other tribes as racially different, sometimes contemptible for such, but not because of blood or genealogy, but because they were different. They spoke different languages, had different rituals, herded goats instead of subsistence agriculture, it was an "ethno-cultural" considered racial out of having no other means or articulating the difference.

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>>2727482

>>2728358
The Muslims had a similar way of thinking. The 'temperate zones' including the land around the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Sindh and China were considered to create people with balanced minds and bodies, whereas northern Europeans, Slavs and sub-Sharan Africans were unbalanced and barbaric, except when influenced by more temperate regions as in the case of Christian Europe, Russia, Ethiopia and the Sahel. Africans from south of the Niger and Slavs and Turks from the far north were considered animal-like and were called cannibals.

>>2727491
>>2727579

Truly these are /his/ posts.