The "Harry Potter" series involves a conflict between two small groups of blood-defined supermen over whether or not they should exclude an even smaller group. The books also describe a financial system controlled by hook nosed goblins (literally).
Baffling that this series ever became as popular as it did, & I don't expect its popularity or distribution in USA to last. I'd guess that hostility from Christian right in early 2000s let it slip past liberal sensibilities.
Early Bronze Age Greece (~3200-2600 BC) was mostly EEF in ancestry with a significant amount of CHG ancestry from Anatolian migrants. Indo-European invaders who were ~50% PIE/Steppe in ancestry invaded Greece in mid-Bronze Age ~2600-2000 BC. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
the two pre-IE men from Greece in the early Bronze Age had Y-haplogroups of J2a (most commonly found in Georgia) and an uncommon branch of G2. isogg.org/tree/2011/ISOG…
The peoples of the Aegean of the early Bronze Age 3200-2600 were (relatively) homogenous in ancestry - mostly EEF with a significant amount of CHG ancestry. See the admixture graph under "Greece & Cyprus EMBA" - brown is EEF, cyan is CHG.
Six migrations to the Philippines of peoples related to North Negritos, South Negritos, Manobo, Sama, Papuans, and Cordillerans. Spanish made little genetic impact, less than 1%. Sama have a little Indian ancestry. pnas.org/content/118/13…
Philippines cover 7,641 islands, but were all one island in last Ice Age
Rulers of Meroe and Napata ruled with divine right, but could be ordered to committee suicide by a powerful priestly class. Their ideology in mid-1st millennium BC was heavily influenced by Egyptians, but changed under Greek influence following the conquests of Alexander.
Kushites would give control of priesthood of Amun (an Egyptian god) to a daughter of the royal family even after their expulsion from Egypt. Women had an important role in dynastic politics, at least as regents for children.
The Simbriti were Egyptian refugees in 3rd century BC Kordofan (according to Eratosthenes) and ruled indirectly by Meroe. Kushites were mixing with West Eurasians (probably Egyptians) over a period from 200 BC-600 AD, though possibly earlier too.
Middle Stone Age was believed to have begun 280,000 BC and ended 50,000 BC in Africa, when it transitioned to Late Stone Age. However, some Middle Stone Age groups remained in West Africa as late as 9,000 BC - shortly before they were replaced by Late Stone Age pottery makers.
Replacement of Middle Stone Age cultures by Late Stone Age cultures in West Africa associated with spread of forests in 13,000 BC. Groups with very different genetics & technology levels lived close to each other in different ecologies. nature.com/articles/s4159…