Part VI: National Suicide by Reckless Emigration.

This series has described the suicide of ancient nations resulting from short-sighted actions and failures to act defensively as an ethnic people.  The ancient Indus River Valley’s Mediterranean people, whom we call “Harrapans,” failed to recognize the grave dangers caused by a mass migration of incompatible people into their advanced domain until it was too late.  Consequently, their cultural, political, and technological achievements were destroyed, and those Harrapans who were not killed by, or mixed with, the intruders abandoned the civilization their forefathers had created.  As has also been observed, the Indo-European people, whom we call “Tocharians.” occupied what later became northwest China for more than two-thousand years.  However, their culture was compromised during the Common Era, and then they lost their ethnic existence to Turkic migrants.  The Tocharians’ Sogdian brethren in southern Central Asia were similarly corrupted, declined, and dissolved into a mass of both armed and unarmed alien intruders.

As described in Ashavid, emigration—including imperial conquest—can also destroy an ethnic people. Moreover, many tragedies such as these occurred in the ancient world and during the many centuries since.  Various waves of ancient Indo-European nations emigrated from the genetic safety of their millennia-old homeland on the Pontic-Caspian Steppes, and most of those blind lemmings plunged into the alien ethnic mosaic of Asia.  The following are major examples of this sad phenomenon.

The Sogdian Kang.  Long before the Irano-Aryan Sogdians were extinguished by alien intrusions into their southern Central Asian realm, many of their typically short-sighted merchants migrated to China in search of increased profits.  This trickle began during the second century BCE, and it expanded into a large-scale flow during the Common Era’s fifth and sixth centuries (Vaissière, “Sogdians in China,” 2-3).  As this migration grew into the thousands, these intruding merchants moved into the main Chinese towns.  Thereby, they became an established ethnic minority whom the Chinese called the “Kang.”  The Kang economically thrived at first, but over a period of generations, they increasingly merged into their host country’s society.  And especially after the year 755—when the imperial government began forcing assimilation—the Kang genetically disappeared into the Chinese population (Ibid).

Indo-Aryans.  As seen in this series, the Indo-Aryans migrated from their homeland south of the Urals into Central Asia, and by 1500 BCE they entered India.  These warlike Indo-Europeans took control over what to them was an alien land.  And within a few centuries, they genetically lost their very existence by merging with the native Dravidians.

Anatolians.  Between 4200 and 3900 BCE, the Anatolian’s became the first known Indo-Europeans to venture from their Pontic-Caspian-steppe homeland.  First, they migrated from Western Ukraine into the advanced Mediterranean cultures of southwestern Europe’s Danube River Basin.  In this new domain, their Indo-European language gradually replaced that which had been spoken in the region for centuries.  They also modified some of the local customs, and most of the newcomers gradually merged with the Danube Valley’s somewhat compatible Mediterranean people (Anthony 2007, 227-234, 249-251, 259-261; Mallory 1989, 154-155, 264).

However, a few centuries later, a large group of Anatolians migrated southeastward from the Danube region into Asia Minor (that is, present Turkey).  Henceforth, this northwestern corner of Asia came to be called “Anatolia” (Anthony 2007 132-133; Boeree 2007, 5).  By 1900 BCE, they had subjugated and imposed their language on the (Armenoid) “Hatti” and formed the Hittite kingdom (Anthony 2007, 43-46; Sayce & Petersen 1993).  Then for a few generations—while the Anatolian element merged into the Hatti majority—their hybrid kingdom militarily subjugated other nations of West Asia.  Finally, in about 1180 BCE, the Hittite realm itself was destroyed by an alliance of the various enemies it had made for itself (Anthony 2007, 255).

Kassites.  Overlapping this period in Babylonia, the same fate was suffered by the Aryan warrior rulers of the Kassites.  Having exalted short-term military glory, political power over a mass of Orientalid and Armenoid subjects, and material wealth above the survival of their very selves, they are no more (Durant 1954, I, 222 & 397).

Mitanni.  Likewise, the Indo-Aryan Mitanni migrated southward from the Volga River into West Asia.  There they superimposed themselves as military rulers over the native (Armenoid) Hurrians and adopted their subjects’ language.  Then between 1600 and 1400 BCE, these charioteer warriors carved out a kingdom extending from northern Mesopotamia to the eastern Mediterranean coast.  However, during a few generations, they genetically and culturally dissolved into the Hurrian population (Mallory & Mair 2000, 257; Boyce 1992, 38).

Medes and Persians.  During the tenth century before the Common Era, the Medes and Persians migrated from their Indo-European homeland southwest of the Ural Mountains into Iran. By the sixth century BCE, they had built a multiethnic empire spanning all of western Asia and Egypt.  But gradually and inevitably their numbers dwindled as many of them died fighting to hold together this unnatural empire and while others bred with the native Levantine peoples.  Subsequently, they lost their empire to Alexander the Conqueror during the fourth century BCE.  Meanwhile, they continued to submerge and disappear into the native population.

Greeks.  As already described in this series, the Persians were followed in West Asia by the Greeks. Especially after Alexander the Conqueror carved out his empire, Greek merchants and adventurers flocked into this Levantine Civilization.  There they established small Greek colonies and became a political, economic, and cultural elite over the Levantine natives.  However, although their dominance lasted a few generations, they were gradually compromised and weakened in ethnic identity.  And in the end, the Greeks of West Asia were absorbed into the Levantine masses.   Meanwhile, even their own Greek homeland was inundated by a large-scale Levantine immigration that ethically diluted Greece itself.

Romans.  As also seen in this series, the Greeks’ fellow Classical people, the Romans, foolishly sealed their own deadly fate when they created a multinational empire.  That empire’s confusion of nations, languages, and cultures brought about the replacement of patriotism with individualism, corrupted the Roman culture, and brought down their republic.  Then over several generations, the true Roman nation gradually withered and became extinct while fertile aliens adopted Roman names and attempted to hold the unnatural empire together.  Their inevitable failure led to the destruction of Classical Civilization itself and ushered in several centuries of chaos and barbarism.

Vandals and Alans.  As the no-longer-Roman “Roman” state died, Spain, the empire’s westernmost European province, was occupied by an invading Indo-European horde.  Some of those newcomers were an Irano-Aryan people called “Alans,” who had been previously swept out of their Pontic-Caspian-steppe homeland by invading Huns. The larger and more dominant of the invaders were a Germanic people called “Vandals.”  After their arrival in Spain, these two closely-related groups united as the “Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans.”  This realm was formed during the 420s CE, and it dominated a relatively compatible population of Indo-European Celts and the Iberian Peninsula’s natives who consisted mostly of a southern Atlanto-Mediterranean people.

Nevertheless, in 428 CE, King Gaiseric led his people into the conquest of North Africa.  As a result, the Vandals and Alans ruled both there and the western Mediterranean islands from 435 to 533. While settling among the north African population as a minority elite, most of them converted to Arian Christianity, and they reduced their own numbers through persecutions of those among them who had become Nicean Christians.  Meanwhile, over a few generations their elite became soft and complaisant.  Then in the year 533, they lost a major battle to a large Byzantine army.    In its aftermath, the victors scattered the surviving men and sent them to West Asia to serve as soldiers, and the women were forced to marry Byzantine (Levantine) soldiers (Bury, 1923, II, 128-139).  Therefore, instead of the Vandals and Alans’ descendants surviving as leading citizens of modern Spain and Portugal, their invasion into an alien sphere of the earth eventually led to their total annihilation as a people.

It is noteworthy that the Byzantine state was the Greek-speaking, multi-ethnic, and (by this time) culturally Levantine eastern remnant of the mostly-collapsed Roman Empire.  This corrupt regime intentionally destroyed a rival people by mixing them with other breeds.  Moreover, as will be seen, such a malevolent policy had often been practiced previously, and it continues even into the twenty-first century.

 

 

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Boyce, Mary.  1992.  Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Bury, J. B.  1923.  History of the Later Roman Empire.  Vol. II.  McMillan & Co., Ltd.

Durant, Will.  1954.  The Story of Civilization.  Vol. I, Our Oriental Heritage.  New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc.

Mallory, J. P.  1989.  In Search of the Indo-Europeans.  London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd.

Mallory, J. P. and Victor H. Mair.  2000.  The Tarim Mummies.  London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd.

Sayce, A. A., and R. Petersen.  1993.  Race in Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament.  Washington, D. C.: Scott-Townscend Publishers.

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