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To: Darksheare
It really doesn't. Moving an entire population from its home area into some completely foreign and often distant area, in unfamiliar terrain, with unfamiliar and often hostile neighbors, is an old, old practice. Simmers them down and helps reconcile them to foreign rule, on which they are now reliant and beholden.

The Assyrians, Persians, Romans, and modern empires including the USSR have done it.

The movement of the ten tribes was into the area north of the Black Sea led to the Ashkenazi Jews in Europe (they're bickering about something in my chromosomes right now), which, based on archaeological evidence, was at least for some period of time under Assyrian rule.

The bulk of them went to Central Asia. Assyrian rule also caused a widespread use of Aramaic, and wound up being used in Central Asia to the point that at least three of Ashoka's Pillars (in what is now Afghanistan) are inscribed with it -- it was the local written language.

There's an Assyrian-era record, clay tablet, dug up in eastern Anatolia somewhere, with a transliteration of the name Hezekiah on it, apparently a merchant.

7 posted on 11/18/2024 10:56:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Apologies, when I said "written language" I should have said "spoken language". Last one, here's the Ashoka keyword, sorted:

8 posted on 11/18/2024 11:02:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Mire specifically thus “The practice shredded the social and cultural fabric of the region so that it could never recover”

So yeah, it does.


9 posted on 11/18/2024 11:05:44 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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