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To: Cronos

"Prussia didn't come into existence until the late medieval period"

Think regional.

And Scythians were Indo-European CELTS. You're thinking strictly in the Brittany-Irish celts. There were even Iberian Celts (until the arabs came to Spain)

The Indo-Europeans were largely Celtic, and had the same social structure. I don't know where you got your deffinitions.


27 posted on 03/19/2005 8:56:52 PM PST by MacDorcha ("You can't reverse engineer something that was not engineered to begin with")
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To: MacDorcha
And Scythians were Indo-European CELTS. You're thinking strictly in the Brittany-Irish celts. There were even Iberian Celts (until the arabs came to Spain)

The Indo-Europeans were largely Celtic, and had the same social structure. I don't know where you got your deffinitions.



The Scyths were a mixture of different tribes -- Germanics, Slavs, Turkics maybe even Celts (doubtful as the Celts were the first to move West to what is now France and the UK).

What you call Prussia is now part of Poland, before the 12th century it was part of the Slavic lands, before that, the Germanics were living in what is now Western Russia.

The Indo-Europeans were not largely Celtic, the largest numbers of Indo-Europeans were Aryans (India, Persia) followed by (in no particular order) Germanics, Italics, Greeks, Celtics and Slavs.
30 posted on 03/19/2005 9:21:29 PM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11)
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To: MacDorcha
There were even Iberian Celts (until the arabs came to Spain)

What are you talking about??? Pre-Roman times, northern Spain near the Pyrenees was Celto-Iberian, true, but there were Basques while southern Spain was Iberian, different from the Celts. Then, the Romans invaded. After the Romans, came the Vandals (Germanics). The 'Arabs' never invaded Spain, it was the Berbers from Nord Afrique. These Berbers never changed the racial structure in the way you suggest.
31 posted on 03/19/2005 9:24:15 PM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11)
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