The Twelve Tribes of Israel

The Twelve Tribes of Israel are actually the ancestors of white Europeans as opposed to modern Jews. Each one of them was named after the sons of Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel.

The Twelve Tribes of Israel

 * 1) Reuben: Greeks
 * 2) Simeon: Italians
 * 3) Levi: Spaniards, Portuguese
 * 4) Judah: Germans, Austrians, Swiss
 * 5) Issachar: English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Irish
 * 6) Zebulon: French
 * Dan: Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Finns, Icelanders
 * 1) Naphtali: Dutch, Belgians
 * Gad: Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians
 * 1) Asher: Albanians, Armenians, Georgians
 * 2) Joseph: Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Hungarians
 * 3) Benjamin: Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Romanians, Serbians, Croatians

Trivia

 * Judah, Dan, Naphtali, and Gad were the only four children of Jacob to have blond hair and blue eyes.
 * Issachar and Joseph both had light brown hair and bluish green eyes. However, Joseph married an Egyptian woman named Asenath, causing some of his descendants to also have dark hair and dark eyes.
 * Jacob also had only one daughter. Her name was Dinah. She was younger than the first six but older than the rest. Her descendants are possibly Indian, Afghan, Pakistani, Nepalese, Persian, and Tajik people, as she was raped by Arab men.
 * The first ten sons of Jacob (as well as Dinah) were all children of Jacob and his first wife named Leah. Joseph and Benjamin were children of Jacob and Rachel. The latter of whom was Leah's younger sister.