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He uses European prehistory as evidence that population replacement is a normal historical pattern: farmers displaced hunter-gatherers, then steppe pastoralists displaced farmers.
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Proto Indo Europeans
Proto-Indo-European groups could assimilate into different environments and look physically different while retaining a shared subconscious value system that shaped worldview, mythology, literature, and language.
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Jiang describes Proto-Indo-European or Yamnaya displacement of European farmers as violent population replacement, including killing farmer men and taking women as captive brides.
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Climate change and Bronze Age collapse bring steppe Proto-Indo-Europeans into Iran and India, giving rise to Zoroastrianism and Hinduism in Jiang’s later-course setup.
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Proto-Indo-European groups could assimilate into different environments and look physically different while retaining a shared subconscious value system that shaped worldview, mythology, literature, and language.
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"...history, all right? So last semester, we talked about the Proto -Indo -Europeans. Right? Okay? So this is Europe, this is Asia, Anatolia. Okay,..."
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"And when they went to Europe, they forced out the hunter -gatherers. Okay? It was not violent, because hunter -gatherers have very few people,..."
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"a war that lasts 100 years, 20 years, in which the nomadic pastoralists, the Amnaya, or the Porto Indo -Europeans, they displaced, or they..."
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"...will bring people from the steppes. Okay? These are the Proto -Indo -Europeans we discussed previously. And then, because of climate change, because of..."
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"So, even though the Proto -Indo -Europeans, they were going into different environments, and they were assimilating themselves into different environments, and they looked..."
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