Is it accurate to say that Italians are descendants of ancient Rome?

Descendants of the Roman Empire, the purest descent is sicilian and Shanmin in southern Italy. But most of them are descendants of Roman slaves. As for the people around Rome, they have changed several nationalities.

The true descendants of Roman nobles were in Moscow and Kiev. After the demise of the Western Roman Empire, all Roman nobles fled to the Eastern Roman Empire, that is, the Byzantine Empire. The history of the Eastern Roman Empire is very long, until 1453, when Muslims captured Constantinople.

After the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire, the imperial nobles fled north to the Ross region. They are all educated Orthodox Christians. Kiev and Moscow became their new settlements. Orthodox Church 1589 also became the patriarchate.

Because the Romans moved northward, they brought culture and established a new Orthodox center, and Slavs suddenly became Russians with culture and connotation.

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Modern Italians have nothing to do with ancient Romans. After the demise of the Roman Empire (Western Roman Empire), the whole empire was forced to move to Istanbul, the capital of the East, and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) was established.

Later, the Byzantine Empire was also destroyed, and its ethnic groups were assimilated by most ethnic groups in West Asia. Today's Italians are a combination of people who did not migrate with the Western Roman Empire and other European nations (Gauls, Daldal, Goths, etc.). Who attacked and moved to the empire at that time and later?

In other words, mixed-race people can't just recognize the most powerful ancestors. After the end of ancient Rome, westerners entered the dark, barbaric and ignorant Middle Ages, and civilization had long been broken.

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