Quote Originally Posted by Randarkmaan
I think to the northwest, in the Eurasian steppe, the theory which I have heard about the origin of the Indo-European languages (Proto Indo-European) which I think sounds most likely places them in the Eurasian steppe, away from oceans or large bodies of sea, something the early language had no words for, and also away from forests, which they had no word for either.

Well, anyway the chaps I call "Aryans" are the ones who destroyed the Indus valley civilization, and I also doubt they were blond blue-eyed people seeing as the caste system made mxing pretty difficult (The Aryans settled in the country and made placed themselves in the highest castes). Though it might not have been right to call only them "aryans" because even though it is from Sanskrit it undoubtedly comes from a root word in Proto Indo-European and it doesen't seem unlikely for a people to refer to themselves as a "noble breed" especially if they conquer and govern many other "infidels or non-believers". Alternatively you could just call these Aryans the "Vedic people" or something like that, as they spoke "Vedic Sanskrit".



minor correction: "Deutschland", no offence intended.

Ohh dont get me wrong, The whole blue eyes and blond hair thing is propoganda but those "Aryan" invaders were caucasian similar to what an armenian, northern iranian, greek, spaniard, or southern itaian looks like. Have you ever seen indian movies?? check them out most of the stars look "diffrent" than the typical indian you or anyone knows. About 10-15% of india are not mixed with the dravidian population.

Armenia is not close to water either. please read the link i posted it gives very good points on the indo-european homeland being in the armenian highlands and norhtern iran.

having blond hair and blue eyes, is due to a lack of sunlight. It is human adaption to the enviroment. when thousands of years ago these indo-european tribes began to migrate, and settle in the difrrent parts of europe and asia the people adapted to the enviroment. In essence if we take a person from a northern eurpean climate and darken the hair and darken the eyes and give him a little tan I assure you he will look like a Greek or Armenian or Spaniard and vise versa. THe facial characteristics and structures are similar. BUt if we take a man from saudi arabia and give him blue eyes and blond hair he will not look like a northern european because he has diffrent facial characteristics and structers. Physical Anthropology is intresting to me.