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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Thought2: [QB] Thought Writes: So if Whites spread back from Europe into the Middle East, when did this take place. One possibility: [URL=http://members.aol.com/RARinIT/indwhat.htm]http://members.aol.com/RARinIT/indwhat.htm[/URL] "What are/were the Indo-Europeans ? In 1786 Sir William Jones, an English Orientalist (and jurist), said.. "a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick (i.e. Germanic) and the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family." (Source Encyclopaedia Britannica references). What evidence there is suggests that there was a "Proto-Indo-European Language" from which all the known Indo-European languages are derived. This parent language must have split into well defined different languages well before 2000 BC, but the split is unlikely to have occurred before 3000 BC and may well have been later. This implies a common cultural root or tribe around 2800 BC. The best candidate for this "common culture" seems to be the Kurgan culture of what is now South Russia. The word "Kurgan" refers to the tumuli in which their dead were buried - often in the form of a house with many funeral gifts. The origins of Kurgan culture have been traced back to about 5000 BC. Round about 4000 BC to 3500 BC this culture started to spread, covering an area from Eastern Central Europe to northern Iran (Kurgan III 3500 - 3000 BC). It is possible that at an even earlier time, perhaps 2 or 3 thousand years earlier, the Indo-Europeans and the Ural-Altaics (the people who eventually settled in Finland and Hungary, for example) may have sprung from common roots (see Encyclopaedia Britannica references). It would appear that in Europe at least there was a steady progression towards urbanisation before the invasion of the Indo-Europeans. But this was seriously threatened when in about 3500 BC semi-nomadic pastoralists from the Russian steppes (akin to the Kurgans) infiltrated Europe. An early stronghold of these invading Indo-European pastoralists was Vukovar (in modern Yugoslavia) (see Encyclopaedia Britannica references). Greece seems to have had two waves of migration. An early wave seems to be the people who eventually ended up in South West Turkey (by about 2200 BC). These people were responsible for place names ending in "-anthos" and "-anassos", but they were eventually supplanted by Greek speaking people who were well entrenched by 2000 BC (The Hittites, MacQueen JG, see references) In the south west of modern Turkey there is evidence of Indo-European settlement related to the culture of the second city at Troy (dated at about 2200 BC) and the Cilician culture of about 2400 BC (The Hittites, MacQueen JG, p27 references). This puts the Indo-Europeans as entering the North West of modern Turkey by about 3000 BC. They spread to the centre of modern Turkey by about 2300 BC (there is evidence of them in Konya in about 2230 BC)." [This message has been edited by Thought2 (edited 03 September 2005).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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