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Though racism was as prevalent in Imperial Roman society as it is today (which is to say terribly so), the Empire was in theory built upon the precept of diversity with a caveat: all were equal, so long as it was under the banner of the Pax Romana. There were Libyan emperors with Syrian wives and Ethiopian army officers, some serving in places as distant from their Sub-Saharan homelands as north of Hadrian's Wall in Britannia. The written, archaeological and genetic evidence is extensive as to the broad multi-culturalism that was the Roman Empire.