[cmrdporcupine]

Actually, no, _some_ humans in certain places / cultures currently perceive and classify race.

The Roman empire spanned swathes of North Africa and had major centres there and traded with subsaharan Africa. And traded with the 'orient' all the way to China.

Their writings don't make racial classifications. They don't even remark much on skin colour or other features.

Visual features were known, but not considered that significant. And later in the empire people from all over the world became Romans via citizenship and what we now call "race" never factored into it.