To: Arm_Bears
2000 years is a pretty good run, if it really was that long.
Probably outside invaders got to them because they forgot how to defend themselves.
5 posted on
04/10/2018 4:01:55 AM PDT by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: wbarmy
Looks like they didn't have any competition during their long run. The Aryans came in as nomads, but they were herders
what is interesting is that they didn't fight among themselves like their cousins, the Sumerians did. Perhaps it goes along with the lack of a ruling class
13 posted on
04/10/2018 4:29:17 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: wbarmy
They probably had a standardized and undiluted monetary system. In antiquity the longest lived cultures are those whose neighbors realize that the subject culture has a sound money system. It facilitates trade among disassociated entities and no one wants to “kill the goose that lays the golden eggs”.
21 posted on
04/10/2018 5:30:26 AM PDT by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: wbarmy
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>> “if it really was that long.” <<
And it obviously wasn’t.
55 posted on
04/10/2018 3:25:42 PM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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