Thread 17954991

Why were they able to migrate from and invade most of Eurasia? Seems like the steamroller past everyone and nobody seems to stop them. From Europe to Afghanistan to China and India and syria. What made them expand so easily compared to their neighbors?

the answer is in your pic

>>17955350
The flamboyant shaffron?

>>17954991 (OP)
Their cattle probably carried diseases that destroyed Neolithic civilizations.

>A study published in the journal "Cell" on Monday, the 11th, has answered a gap in the history of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. During the Bronze Age, the microorganism was unable to spread through fleas, leaving the scientific community with doubts about how the disease could have spread during that period. The research recovered a genome of the pathogen from a domesticated sheep that lived four thousand years ago in what is now Russia, indicating that transmission may have occurred through animal husbandry

>The study analyzed animal remains found at the Arkaim archaeological site in Russia. The settlement was previously associated with a culture called Sintashta-Petrovka, known for innovations in livestock farming. Researchers found the same bacteria that infected humans in the region four thousand years ago in a sheep's tooth. This information is from "CNN Science."

>The finding led an international team of researchers to believe that domesticated animals may have played a role in the transmission of the bacteria across Europe and Asia. In the Bronze Age, Yersinia pestis had not yet developed the genetic tools that would allow it to use fleas as vectors, as it does today

>According to Ian Light-Maka, study author and a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany, the disease emerged in prehistoric times, and 200 Y. pestis genomes have been found in ancient human remains. "It left us with many questions and few answers about how humans were becoming infected", he commented

>>17954991 (OP)
They were nomads, and in most of Eurasia the local population was too weak and underdeveloped to defend itself against the hypermilitarized mounted archers.

>>17955364
>About 20% of the bodies of people who lived in the Bronze Age found in the Eurasian Steppe region were infected with the bacteria. Although livestock farming indicates what caused the transmission of the disease during this period, it is only one piece of the puzzle and opens the door for further analyses of the evolution of Y. pestis

>According to Taylor Hermes, co-author of the study and a professor at the University of Arkansas in the US, it is likely that humans and animals transmitted the bacteria to each other, but it is unclear how they did this or how the sheep became infected in the first place

>One hypothesis is that the disease spread to a flock through a food or water source and then to humans through the consumption of contaminated meat from these animals

>In addition to helping scientists understand how the bacteria evolved, finding the pathogen's genome in an animal that lived four thousand years ago could also help in understanding modern diseases. “Evolution can sometimes be lazy. […] The genetic tools that helped Y. pestis thrive for more than 2,000 years across Eurasia can be reused,” Light-Maka said

>Recent evidence suggests that most modern human diseases emerged within the last 10,000 years after animal domestication. The lineage of bacteria that caused plague in Europe and Asia during the Bronze Age spread from the European continent to Mongolia

>>17955357
Based on your pic seems they did things much the same way as Mongols.

>>17954991 (OP)
its easy to expand when 95% of the land is empty

>>17955364
>>17955370
I wondered if this had anything to do with Chaosmkampf, since snakes are venomous and diseases are similar, but I stopped thinking that when I realized that snakes are more closely associated with sea/rivers than that, and rivers have serpentine shapes due to erosion and sediment deposition. Water seeks the path of least resistance, creating curves (meanders) that divert the flow, accentuate erosion on the inner banks, and deposit sediment on the outer banks, forming a zigzag pattern over time that resembles a serpent.

>>17954991 (OP)
They just jumped on their wagons and rode west, nothing more nothing less.

>to China
They did nothing in China. They remained irrelevant tribes on the outskirts of China. Tarim wasn't Chinese, it was conquered by them later on.
I'm not some CCP stooge, but this is a fact.

>>17955454
And yet the Chinese word 車 *kla for "wheel" is ultimately a derivative of the PIE *kʷékʷlos. Curious

>>17955488
Or their metal and the introduction of the chariot and we even have some words in the Chinese vocabulary, and if we go back further than Andronovo, they even introduced new types of animals into the region.
Of course, 100% irrelevant, right?

>>17954991 (OP)
>MARCH OF THE TITANS
kek

>>17955488
PIE kʷékʷlos is also derived from Sumerian. PIE tawro is derived from Semitic. Metallurgy in China was brought by the BMAC and in any case predates the Andronovo by centuries.

>>17955826
part 2

>>17955855
part 3

>>17954991 (OP)
icecaps and encroaching glacierization

>>17955417
>>17955370
>>17955364
See you in North America soon, Space Cowboy.