Re: how did u learn about Aryans / Indo-Europeans?
europeans and north indian, pakistanese and afghani (aka aryans descendants) share the same ancestors: the indoeuropeans:
Between the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea, in the heart of Eurasia, lived a populous tribe, which, already from the beginning of the 6th millennium, had reached an advanced state of civilization. The Indoeuropeans (as this tribe was named in the 19th century by the scholars who rescued it from obscurity) had succeeded in domesticating the dog and, with its help, the horse, the sheep and the cow. They had invented the decimal system, the potter’s wheel and maybe also the cart wheel. Their bards had composed lengthy odes to preserve the glory of the warriors. However, in the beginning of the fifth millennium, the tribe began to spread out and fragment, with the westernmost branch reaching the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. All European peoples, except for the Proto-Bulgarians, the Turks, the Hungarians and, perhaps, the Basques descend from the Indoeuropeans.
The easternmost branches went as far as the foot of the Himalayas. In India, the Arya (nobles) formed the core of the aristocracy, which, under the leadership of the Brahmans, developed the caste system of social hierarchy. One branch of the Indoeuropeans, the Greeks (the name came, of course, much later), wandered for many centuries in the plains of central Europe and the northern Balkans. Nevertheless, at some point around 2000 B.C. they began to descend, in waves, into the southern part of the peninsula. Greece must have appeared to these travel-worn warrior tribes as the Blessed Land of poetic lore: clouds were rare, winters mild and the Aegean light shone all year round.
The gradual fragmentation of the Indoeuropean tribe resulted in the evolution of several dialects originating from the same roots.
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