Re: Alternative histories and paralele universes
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 7, 1999, 1:55 |
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Andrew Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> > Or one in which horses survived in the New World, but not the Old
> > World. That might be an interesting idea.
> >
> 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.
There are credible theories which propose that PIE spread not by the
sword by rather by the plowshare: agriculture, which developed in the
Mideast, nearby one of the major theoretical Urheimats of the IE peoples,
Anatolia, could easily have been the means by which much of Europe
was colonized, as it were.
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