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Why did they migrate the Indo-European?
Ecological studies: widespread drought, urban collapse, and pastoral migrations. Climate change and drought may have triggered both the initial dispersal of Indo-European speakers, and the migration of Indo-Europeans from the steppes in south central Asia and India.
When did Indo-Europeans migrate into Europe?
Scholars debate when exactly these massive migrations began—some say as early as 8000-5000 BCE, while others put it fairly late, after 3000 BCE—but it’s clear that by the third millennium (3000-2000 BCE) the Indo-Europeans were on the move.
What was the primary occupation of the Indo-European peoples that migrated from the steppes?
The Indo-Europeans were a group of nomadic peoples who may have come from the steppes dry grasslands that stretched north of the Caucasus (KAW•kuh-suhs). The Caucasus are the mountains between the Black and Caspian seas. These primarily pastoral people herded cattle, sheep, and goats.
What groups of people moved into India from the Caspian Sea area and brought with them the beginnings of Hinduism with the Vedas and the caste system?
Around 1500 B.C., another Indo-European people, the Aryans, moved into the Indus River Valley of India. The Aryans’ homeland was probably somewhere between the Caspian and Aral Seas. Other scholars believe the Aryans originated in India. The Aryans were different from the dasas, the people they found in India.
What is the steppe theory?
The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory or Kurgan model) or Steppe theory is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European homeland from which the Indo-European languages spread out throughout Europe and parts of Asia.
Is Finnish Indo-European?
Finnish is one of the four national languages of Europe that is not an Indo-European language. The other two are Estonian and Hungarian, which are also Uralic languages, and Basque.