[tied] Re: The physical type of proto-Indo-Europeans

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

>
> > ...if you place their homeland in a
> > region with temperatures of -30C in the winter and +40 during the
> > summer..without important reserves in vegetation, animals,

waters,

> > salt, minerals and woods
>
> That sounds to me like an important reason for people to go and

invade

> somebody else.
>
> Only slightly more seriously, I have often wondered why there was

such

> continual pressure from the north down into Europe, so we get the

great

> movements of peoples


>about 2000BCE,

Erh, what?

>1100BCE

Erh, what?

>and 500CE.

You mean 300-400CE?

>Where do these
> people keep coming from?

"vagina populorum et officina gentium"

Until the construction of railways and later freeways water
transport were the only possible mass freight transport. Freight
transport is the backbone of nations: no transport, no barter, no
wealth, no population, no power. As late as the 17th century Sweden
conquered large parts of Germany. In the 20th century? Forget it.


Torsten