Re: Alternative histories and paralele universes

On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Andrew Smith wrote:

> For a start the Indo-Europeans would not have been able to spread so
> widely without their horse-drawn chariots.  Perhaps they only survived in
> places where they had the advantage without horses (Asia minor, Greece,
> Iran) and the rest of Eurasia speaks non-IE.
I see what you mean, but some examples of widespread language families
whose speakers didn't have horses come to mind -- Bantu, Algonkian,
Athapaskan, Eskimo.  I don't know that the lack of horses would have to be
an absolute hobble (so to speak) for these alternate Indo-Europeans.

Kenji Schwarz