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"So what happened to the Caucasian / Celts? Wiped out, didn't procreate as fast, driven West, didn't like the smell 0f Chinese cooking?"

There are records of the Han that the Yuezhi were split, the Greater Yuezhi allied with the Han and the Lesser Yuezhi were driven back west. Most were eventually assimilated. The Chinese skeletons did not begin appearing in the region until around 100-200BC. The Uyghurs adopted the reconstructed image (known as 'The Beauty Of Loulan') of one of the mummies as the mother of their country and her image is now on their money and etc. The great wall was built to keep these people out of China...the wall didn't keep anyone out.

22 posted on 09/12/2004 7:16:26 PM PDT by blam

Thanks BLAM. As a numismatist of sorts, I gotta get me some of that pinup currency!

29 posted on 09/12/2004 9:53:31 PM PDT by Henchman (Demand an inquiry by the media into Kerry's dealing with the VC in PARIS!)

The great wall was built to keep these people out of China...the wall didn't keep anyone out.

Wasn't the wall meant to keep the northern nomads out -- the western ones would be restricted by the Gobi.

35 posted on 09/14/2004 12:14:45 AM PDT by Cronos (W2K4)

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