Apparently this is, like, a whole controversy?

  • wopazoo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    People tended not to move around very much before cars.

    Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain

    The Migration Age in general (German tribes migrating into Roman lands en masse)

    The deportation of the Ionian Greeks into central Asia

    The Han settling of Manchuria at the behest of the Qing emperor

    Mongol invasions

    Fuck it, the migration of Homo Sapiens out of Africa to the whole world

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Proto-IndoEuropeans apparently went all the way to the Amur River before settling near the Caspian Sea. And turkic peoples today can be found in the far eastern parts of the Russian Arctic.

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I am under the impression that even though those were significant migrations, most the poor people just kinda stayed put under new management and their grandkids would change religion. There are of course exceptions but I thought DNA evidence was in on this one.

      • wopazoo [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        most the poor people just kinda stayed put

        No, ancient tribal migrations involved the whole tribe, from the royal family to the slaves. Humans used to all be nomadic before the advent of cities after the Neolithic revolution. Even then, tribes and peoples still migrated to greener pastures when the local environment was depleted or they were driven out by other people moving into their area.

        The concept of the poor people staying in place while the lord changed is a feudal concept, when serfs were bound to their land and forbidden from leaving. This was not the case in ancient times.