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What has been the most racially/ethnically diverse part of the world?

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Phidippides:
I was thinking today about how racial/ethnic integration is a relatively modern thing in general.  Historically, while you might have seen the occasional dark-skinned African person traveling through Europe (I recently read a reference to this happening during the reign of Frederick II), for the most part the continent would have been white.  Africa, in turn, would for the most part have been black.  Asia would have been Asian, and so forth.

With that said, there surely must have been some places of greater integration: places where different races had regular contact, or different ethnic groups engaged in regular trade or shared common facilities.  Where would these places have been, though?

I suspect that the Levant might have been such a place, at least historically.  Situated squarely between the white, Christian West, Islam, and Africa to the south (not to mention traders from the East who could have passed through during times of trade), could the Levant have been among the most diverse regions in the world historically?  Or would there have been other sites with similar levels of integration?

Donald Baker:
Egypt?

Phidippides:
That's not a bad guess either. 

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