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Medieval European painters never saw anyone with dark skin, therefore Africans were white. (lemmy.world)
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Also, Moses sure does look white in that picture, doesn’t he?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Black people were afaik more commonly seen in Europe than one might think.

Still, it wouldn't surprise me if they assumed that other kings must also be white, or that they assumed the racial makeup of this faraway realms was similar to their own.