What ethnicity, besides Italic people, contributed the most to the Roman Empire's growth and prosperity?

A lot emperors in the 3rd century were Iberian, and in the 4th century they started to come from the balkans.

Culturally the greeks, economically Egipt in the east and hispania in the west

What ethnicity contributed the least to the Roman Empire's growth and prosperity?

Excluding obvious ones like native americans who do you fucking think

To be honest, Germans were pretty influential in the late empire and did a lot for it.

The greeks provided the teachers and philosophers

The egyptians provided a massive surplus of food

The germans and gauls would provide the bulk of the border fighting force

The jewish temples would eventually end up paying for a great deal of roman infrastructure

Yeah they definitely did a lot for it

>All the Germans were Goths and Vandals

And we aren't even sure the Goths were Germanic at all.

GREEKS

Kangz?

retard

>the wealthiest city in the Roman empire

WHEEEEZE

The Britons, no British senators, no British emperors or notable generals. There wasn't much wealth on the island and it was the first province to be abandoned (besides Dacia), and I say this as a Brit.

Iberianz

You mean genetically?
That's irrelevant. They worshipped Germanic gods and spoke a Germanic language, they were culturally Germanic.

There's no such thing as "genetically German". There's no way to tell a given sample comes from Germany rather than any of the surrounding countries.

What the iberians did?

t. spaniard

I thought tin was pretty important. You can see why Britain would be abandoned first on geographic reasons alone.

The Greeks

Exactly.
Also, don't confuse "German" and "Germanic".

The british

Greeks and North Africans

How much did North Africa outside of Egypt really contribute?

I'm pretty sure this is all meme, but Africa was basically irrelevant past Carthage-area which was heavily populated, and Egypt. It wasn't quite the desert it is today, but it was pretty close. That said, both of those centers were really important themselves.

Rome was food dependent on imports from Africa, especially after the empire was divided since Constantinople took what came from Egypt. A large part of the reason the political authority of the western empire collapsed was because the Vandals held Italy hostage by controlling their food supply.

Britain was strategically important, but was left impotent by the constant harrying along the borde and romes inability to stem the raiding which led to drastically slowed local economy.

Hebrews

Roman Iberians

they produced the best emperor Rome had, hands down
Trajan

>which is basically everybody from the East, from Egypt to Thrace

You mean the tiny and minoritary urban elite of the east, right?

Probably brits or dacians, but the latter was part of the empire for like 5 seconds.

Apart from being the home of several Roman emperors it had very importan mines and, while not Egypt, it the Baetica had a prosperous agriculture. Also great garum. I think the hispanian horses were good too.

Like said, Egypt was not the only North African region to bring food to the empire. Also Carthage was a pretty big a prosperous city.

Etruscans?

Britain was entirely a vanity project on the part of Rome, economically besides the mining of tin, and exporting fish and clams, it was a backwater and relatively unimportant.

The Hadrian wall and Severus wars, were done because the Romans could not conceive of a bunch sheep fucking barbarians continuously defying Rome.

lol...

>What ethnicity, besides Italic people, contributed the most to the Roman Empire's growth and prosperity?

Well. Roman Empire was founded in 500 BC and died in 1922 so to be specific i think Turks.

I would say Asia Minor/Syria and Dalmatia were of the most important in terms of long term strategic geographic importance, which is why the Romans went to great lengths to make these two regions their power bases. One for the west and the other for the east.

Militarily the Iberians, Illyrians and Syrian people contributed the most to Rome in terms of manpower.

Economically Egypt, the region that is today Tunisia (africa proconsularis) and Italy where were teh most economically important regions.

Gaul, Greece,and the German provinces were relatively unimportant economically, besides their strategic locations.

Useless tier: Britain, Armenia, Dacia, Arabia.

>wealthiest city
Gotta love kike wewuzzing

Berbers and Arabs, dummy. I hate how you can barely even say the word "Africa" on this site without invoking /pol/ memes.

>abandoned

The Britons threw out the Roman officials. They were the only people in the entire empire to do that and get away with it. Abandoned implies that the state didn't want to reclaim it.

fpbp

>who is Septimus Severus

Hispania since most of the great emperors were born there

Illyrians

>Trajan
>Hadrian
>Marcus Aurelius

Talk shit about the repercussions of their actions all you like, but the Empire was at the height of its power and influence under the Illyrian Emperors.

start with the greeks

Probably the Greeks.

Honorable mention to the Illyrians though. The Illyrian Emperors were all pretty great and single handedly saved the Empire during the crisis of the Third Century and reinvigorated the Roman polity for another 150 years.

Shuush. Don't say such things otherwise Greek cock-suckers will tell you how 90% of 1st century AD Egypt was ethnically Greek.

>North Africa is an ethnicity

Egyptians are not Berbers. The Egyptians own artwork depicted Maghreb enemies as seperate from them.

>Roman Empire
>prosperity

Best Emperor

All of those were iberians/part iberian not illyrian

You know what people mean, stop nitpicking famalampai

>Arabs in north Africa while Rome still controlled it

Iberia and Dalmatia, but most of the worthwhile people from there were Latins anyways.

Next you'll be saying Egyptians count as Greeks.

the obvious answer would be the roman ruling class(nordics).

the semitic peoples unironically.
they gave us jesus

During which time period was the roman ruling class mainly comprised of barbarians?

Ottomans have less claim to the legacy of Rome than the >H>R>E m8

>Jesus
>contributing to the growth and prosperity of Rome
no
t. Catholic

rome was founded by nords.

But mehmet was a blood descendant of the Imperial line and had the right o conquest/was legitimized by the patriarch in exchange for protection

Arabia produced an Emperor at least
And Britain gave Constantine the jump start

>What are Punics

There were plenty of places in Briton where latifundia style plantation economy would have worked. It could support its own minor upper-class and exported to Gaul a variety of goods. Even the commoners in Briton saw their wealth increase under the Romans. Town-centers grew dramatically as local land owners took over and built public works to be in the good graces of their overlords and achieve a higher status. There was almost plenty of land to conquer to support a legio in York which would serve to keep the peace on the isle. The thing is, the actual administation there did not work out as intended since it had a very active tribal society on its borders that were difficult to uproot and persistent in penetrating and raiding. This could have been stemmied by local fortifications such as town centers with walls to store warehouses in, but these were heavily not allowed under Roman rule since they would become hard points for upstarts to take over.
Most of the local landowners got fleeced since they were erecting public temples and baths and such in their towns to make them more Roman. Then Christianity takes over and the state authorizes raiding the temples and they were slow to react. Basically terrible real-estate investments combined with annoying perfidious barbarians that couldn't be bought off since they were decentralized.

besides Italic people

The Britons. Conquering that island was nothing but a vanity project. It contributed nothing to the Empire.

Not just one.

Pannonian's obviously.

>yfwywnb pannonian

This, they made Rome.
Etruscans weren't Italic or even Indo-European.

It was a claim that was abandoned by just about every Ottoman ruler after Mehmet II.

Someone post the flow chart that proves Finland is the true Roman Empire

Berbers with leventine admixture, or leventine with berber admixture