Throughout history, the countries with the smartest people has shifted from one ethnic group to another. Egyptian, Persian, greek, roman and chinese empires were all the most powerful empires in the world over the past 2000 years. They were mostly of different ethnicities and weren't white. Also the romans being white is just complete nonsense, the ancient roman historians described the romans having Mediterranean features in comparison to germans having western european features in contrast.
My point is that what determines the smartest ethnic groups are just circumstantial luck which allows the populace to take over neighboring countries, trade routes, and to acquire knowledge and advancements. Whites aren't just better than everybody else, contrary to what white supremacists would want you to believe.
Again, they are closer to the Levantine sons of Shem genetically than the Germans/Slavs/celts/nords. The ancient Greeks and southern Italian from Jesus’ time are more like Shem than Japheth.
They aren’t genetically white. Just because they accomplished a-lot doesn’t mean they’re white. You can’t just claim every civilization that accomplished a lot as white just because you feel like it.
Is this why Romans got along so well with the Jews?
Don't strawman me - I didn't say they did a lot, I said they are the fathers of European (WHITE) Civilization.
Well, the white europeans simply adopted the culture of non-whites. Christianity was started by the Jesus and spread mainly by jews like Paul. This then spread to western europe. The same happened with the roman/greek laws and culture that western european "barbarians" adopted after the fall of the western roman empire.
Sadly the byzantine empire fell to Islam, which made north Africa and the levant become islamic. They then were sadly not apart of "western" civilization anymore but apart of the Islamic world.
Christianity is the continuation of the Hebrew messianic tradition of the Torah and the prophets. Christ and His Apostles were jewish. They formed the Church and preached the Gospel all over the world. Byzantium fell but the Church was kept alive and Christians preserved their faith and identity in the Ottoman Empire. This is why after its disillusionment, all the Balkan countries gained independence and returned their Christian monarchies. Enslaving people doesn't necessarily convert them. See the jews in Egypt and Babylon.