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To: Republic_of_Secession.
who were mainly the partial ancestors of the Indians & Persians

Well, actually, the Persians and northern Indians ARE Aryans, not partial Aryans. The Nordics and most other Europeans are Aryanic.
189 posted on 01/16/2005 2:24:07 AM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11)
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To: Cronos
Not quite.

The northern Indians have mixed with Dravidic peoples over the centuries & the Persians have mixed with Semitic & Old European (whose closest modern cousins would be the Basques) peoples.

The Nordics are not the direct descendents of the Aryans but are descendents of people who were cousins & therefore closely related to the Aryans, but not actually descended from the group known as Aryans. Remember: the Proto Indo-Europeans who are believed to have originated in southern Russia near the Caspian Sea branched out in many different directions. The group that migrated into Persia & India were known as Aryans, while the groups which migrated into Europe (& elsewhere) were a different branch (& branches) of the original group whose origins are believed to be near the Caspian Sea.

Remember also that groups of Proto Indo-Europeans migrated from the "homeland" into different directions at different times in history as well.

207 posted on 01/19/2005 7:56:42 AM PST by Republic_of_Secession.
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