[norton]

"I think it would amaze us where our forefathers have been, whether they be Irish, Zulu, Cherokee, Aztec, Roman, Parthian, Mongol, or Jew."

Odds are on 'all of the above'.

[sully777]

Makes you wonder: Ancients used to sell the captured locals into slavery. The dispora of any group is evidently typical, as is the intermarrying of the conquerors with the conquered.