>>212312938>An average European is probably descended from nearly every person in Europe in that time.No. Absolutely not. This is one of the worst American ideas created to support the theory that they are part jew.
Let me explain.
The idea comes from the fact that the number of ancestors doubles every generation exponentially.
Like, I have 2 parents and 4 grandfathers. If we pretend that the average cycle takes 30 years. This is 33 generations in 1000 years. 2^33 is 8589934592 people. Way more than all humans lived back then. But people don't take into account that people also marry distant relatives ALL THE TIME.
But americans refuse to believe in this and like to claim that they are all part jew because there was not enough people in europe at that time (but when you ask if they would also be part chinese and african because there was also not many people in the Middle East, they block you)