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Mongols also invaded parts of Eastern Europe but they were never so numerous as to pass down their genes in any large quantities

The Mongolian blue spot is an interesting marker. It shows up bottoms of lots of little Hungarian babies who otherwise look quite European.

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The spot shows up ON the bottoms, that is ....

[Cronos]

The Mongolian blue spot is an interesting marker. It shows up bottoms of lots of little Hungarian babies who otherwise look quite European.

But wouldn't that be because of hte Huns? Huns = HUN garia?

Of course, there is no real difference between Huns, Mongols and Turks -- they're all of the sam ethnicity. I think I've read somewhere that they all orinignated from the steppes of Central Asia. The Turks were hte first to head south west, moving into Irani areas in Central Asia (current Turkmenistant, Uzbekistan etc.) and then the Huns came (they were of course pushed due to the completion of the great wall of CHina). THe Huns moved into Europe. They also tried to get into Persia but the Parthian Empire prevented that and into India but the Rajasthani princes prevented that in 300 AD.

Finally came the Mongols who invaded their Turkic cousins first and then combined with them to form the Golden Horde. Their descendents included Timur e Lang who conquered most of Central Asia, northern Persia and north western India and the Moghuls who conquered the northern portions of India and the Seljuk Turks who conquered Anatolia and ARabia and Egypt and the Cyrene. The people of south eastern Europe will have more than a little Turkic-Mongol blood while those in the West will have a few traces.