Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure! (Epic music starts)
Calls the video "Explaining the Aryan Invasions" Shows a picture of blonde haired charioteers with swastikas painted on their horses running over a brown man five seconds in RUclips is gonna have a field day with this one.
Which is ironic because there is not a single shred of evidence that "Aryans" were "blondes" and there is no evidence of chariot use much in Northern Europe before brown skinned and swarthy Sumerians and Near-Easterners and Indians-Iranians were using it where these types of people were residing in and there is no genetic evidence R1a genetic carriers were originally blonde in the first place!!!!
I speak lithuanian. I can understand certain spoken in sankrit such as the words for God, gods, fire, air, etc For some reason Albanian nationalists really hate this fact and will often contest the fact with pseudo science and no linguistic backup.
Modern woke leftist academia and historians probably don’t know how to repackage this time period in a non-problematic manner that doesn’t lend itself to validating reactionary natural views.
@KaiHung-wv3ul They go way back, at least the 8th century BC. It's significant because they largely kept to the same way of life, geographical region, and genetic similarity to the original Aryans. The most worthy descendent in every sense, really. Hence why I'm shocked they weren't mentioned because they likely provide the best documented example for how the original Aryans may have thought and lived, especially since settling and engaging in agriculture as the Persians did would have totally changed their culture.
@@SwornInvictus True. They still lived fairly nomadic lives until the 2nd or 3rd century AD. My paternal lineage comes from them, so I'm fascinated by the group.
Another great video🎉Also, that point on the Bantu people of Africa is so true😂 As a Nigerian, it's so hilarious how many of the Pan-Africanists here ignore/lie about how Bantu culture and ethnicity soread across sub-Saharan African via conquest abd interbreeding which led to the displacement of many other pre-existing African tribes. They like to act as if only European colonialism did this here
My compliments to you for being so aware of your own culture and history. I am American, that awareness is unfortunately a rare trait whether you are African or European in current era.
Brings to mind rappers talking about how many women they and their crew have slept with, interspersed with waxing about their favorite guns and enemies they've smoked.
Indian nationalists say it didn't happen because the Aryans were the upper castes, and separatists use this to frame the upper castes as outsiders and cause disunity and caste conflict among the society. What's funny is that the Aryan invasion/migration happened thousands of years ago and people have mixed alot since even before caste system was locked and ossified, but they still want to frame the upper castes as outsiders the same way they frame Muslims and Mughals as outsiders even though they are completely subsumed by the Indian culture and have nothing in them today that reflects Persian or Turkic culture. It's just politicians creating their own narratives and history cause most people in India and Indian culture as a whole has always been quite disinterested in history. So people tend to believe whatever makes them look good.
@@TingTong2568There are two theories on this. The first is that the caste system was already present when the Aryans came and they placed themselves on the top of the caste hierarchy The second is that the Aryans created the caste system to maintain their genetic purity and put themselves on the top of the system, the same way the Portuguese created a caste system when they colonized the Americas.
@@TingTong2568if you are interested in knowing more, watch "who are Indians" by youtuber mohak mangal. It's in Hindi but there's option of English subtitles. It gives you the most unbiased view of this matter in my opinion.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
Lithuanian is so similar to the original Indo-European language because of Lithuanian nationalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most people in Lithuania spoke Polish or were bilingual. In all towns and cities, Polish was the dominant language. The Lithuanian language was mainly used by people in rural areas, and even there, most words were borrowed from Polish but adapted to Lithuanian grammar. After World War I, there was a Polish-Lithuanian war, but the Entente forbade Poland from attacking Lithuania, so supporters of ending the Polish-Lithuanian union organized the first modern Lithuanian state. Then there was a large conspiracy to start a civil war in Kaunas Lithuania because many Lithuanians did not want to destroy their national identity, identifying as Polish Lithuanians. The conspiracy was uncovered, and many people were killed or imprisoned. Amid anti-Polish obsession, efforts were made to remove all words of Polish origin from the Lithuanian language. Various methods were used, including searching all chronicles and restoring any words found in old records, trying to reconstruct how Lithuanians spoke in the 14th century. Today’s Polish language is very different from the Polish of the 19th century. It’s difficult to read 19th-century texts in Polish; while you can understand them, they feel oddly written. Polish from before the 14th century is also understandable but sounds somewhat like a different language, requiring learning to read it properly. Languages evolve, but Lithuanian was reconstructed in the 20th century to a more primary form, having previously been used mainly by illiterate peasants. The Lithuanian language did not evolve; it was artificially pushed back in time, and then all children were taught it in schools, with punishment for speaking Polish. That is why Lithuanian might be so similar to the original Indo-European language: It was the language of illiterate peasants. It was artificially reconstructed by searching for old words after World War I.
I think there is also a large population with lactose tolerance in the semitic population. Basically, if your people were herders the ones who could drink milk beyond their infancy were more likely to survive and procreate.
@martneb there's also an isolated African ethnic group who are lactose tolerant for the same reason. That's at least 3 places it independently developed.
It's funny we hear so often that Sub-Saharan history has been erased but infact the Aryan history has been the most suppressed...I wonder why??? Every people they came into contact with ended up creating incredible civilisations and culture but one group born out of Babylon seems to really hate that notion.
@@MIKE_THE_BRUMMIE Well, sub-saharan history was erased because they didn't have writing to record it. They also didn't build much before the Middle Ages. It's actually interesting the similarities! It's just that Aryans didn't have agriculture, and they did have horses, SSA didn't have horses, but were agricultural.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@buildingandfixing4397 Indus valley was peak of civilization, we had three story buildings made of bricks when Indo-Europeans were living in tipis made of skin and mud houses, so yes, we did invent civilization, cumskin dumfuk
How is "Indo-European" PC?? Also where is the actual real evidence any of this video content false bogus claims are true??? If it is true, disprove the comment I made in OP video......
18:33... this is wrong. Yamnaya (the group that kicked off the whole Indo-European expansion saga) DNA has been analysed, their genes indicate that they were mostly either olive-skinned or light-brown. Their facial structures were ambiguous and could fit any category from Europe all the way to India... and if you do a search of facial reconstructions, they look most similar to modern people from the Caucasus region and Iran, not 'white' as we recognize it. Also, the term 'Aryan' has been proven to be an innovation of the Iranian and Indic branch of Indo-European language family. Europeans stumbled upon this word in India about 200 years ago, and took a liking to it, and some Europeans seem to still have a sentimental attachment to it. It is very irrational. It is like calling a Lusitanian a Brazilian. It makes little sense. This is the main reason why academic scholars stay away from the term 'Aryan'... FYI: It has nothing to do with the misuse of the term by WW2 Germany, it just doesn't make sense to do so. It muddies the waters, and gives the wrong impressions.
insecure intellectuals trying to manipulate the concept of "white" because racial hierarchy either makes them uncomfortable or they feel the most advanced must suffer to benefit the less evolved.
Yes and no. Yes because they were mostly like what you describe at the start. No because they were the spreaders of blonde hair and lighter skin, and probably the orgin of blue eyes (the corded ware culture, 75% indo-european dna, is the first origins of blue eyes. And the other 2 mutions orginates in western steppe herders which includes the indo-europeans). So while you are right to say that most of the orginal indo-europeans were dark haired and olive skinned. They also were the people who started and spread the blonde haired, blue eyed, light skinned look.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 I thought the Corded Ware was a mix of Yamnaya and Ancient Scandinavian Hunter-gathers, who had the blue eyes gene? Also, since the Yamnaya also had Ancient Eurasian hunter-gather genes, they would have also had diluted genes for blonde hair. mind you, blonde hair usually occurs due to a macro-haplotype, and when it gets diluted, it doesn't show up any more.
I would just like to say up front how nice it is when maps of Europe include Celts as people. First homo sapiens in Europe, oldest living culture, and so many times people are like, "ok so history in this region starts with when Germans show up."
@@arturnicaciodeandrade9861 before the word Celt yes, Greece is just a little baby they can't come up with words before they were born. We have oral tradition going that far back, and genetics and archeology keep backing us up time after time. After thousands of years of being called liars for telling stories older than most people's gods. Like the plague that wiped out the Neanderthals and gave us a mutation that causes an immune response to babies of foreign men, which lead to Germans killing the entire indigenous population in the north when they came to Europe. They saw no value in women that couldn't produce Germans. 25% of Irish, Ashkenazi, and people in west France have this original mutation. (nobody else) then more recent (around the time the Tuatha de Danann settled Ireland) the father of all gingers appears. He is part of the group with the first recessive trait mentioned that 40k year old mutation to pass on either, both parents have to have it, to pass on both, both have to have both. Anyway at the time Celts were given our name Greeks and Romans believed the entire population were ginger. So you could argue the only true Celts are the gingers which was only like 14k years ago (still before the pyramids)
This is such a horrible statement where do I even begin... Do you think the painters of the Chauvet Cave were Celts or something? Since you mentioned the quote 'Germans', I will just give you the information on the British Isles. The Celts arrived in Britain around 1000 BC, some scholars disagree, but we will stick with this. The Stonehenge was built in 3000 B.C. and afterwards, so the Celts have nothing to do with that. When was Agriculture introduced there? 4000 B.C. The entire transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers happened thousands of years before the Celts, didn't Rudyard just say 5000 years ago is recent in terms of prehistory? Like, does this video say that the Celt are "the first modern humans in Europe” or "the first migration of Aryans in Europe"？
@@yanx4797 my response to the first fella seems to have been deleted by RUclips, or perhaps waiting for human review. Depends entirely on your definition of Celt, are you asking about the people, the language, or the culture? My family was in Europe about 4k years before the Chauvet Cave was painted. The mutation for gingers happened about 14k years ago. Our metalworking starts appearing on the sacred isle between 16-12k years ago. The mutation for better night hunting about 10k years ago. Wealthiest people in the world until about 3k years ago. Start getting killed for telling history about 800 years ago because it is offensive to be older than other people's gods. (oh and by German I mean the people who invaded Europe and don't spell two with a 'd')
20:00 basically, the fact of the matter is that in Northern Europe, the scarcer pre-Aryan populations were completely genocided and replaced, while in Southern Europe, the larger pre-Aryan populations survived and the Aryans simply became the ruling class, eventually mixing with the locals. In Greece for example, it is recorded in folk and tales that the pre-Aryan inhabitants were the Pelasgians, who didn't yet speak Greek, and that they merged with the newcomers who spoke it to create the Hellenic Nation.
Lol Northern Europeans have some of the highest levels of Pre Indo European male lineages. The traits like blonde hair and blue eyes are pre-Indo-European Swedes have high amounts of native haplogroup I while Spanish are over 70% R1b which is an Indo-European lineage
@@captainfury497 The opposite, these traits are distinctly Aryan, the pre-indoeuropean inhabitants of Europe are darker skinned, have black hair and black/brown eyes, essentially more like Middle Easterners, or the Southern Europeans of today
@captainfury497 got a source for that? It goes against littetally every source I have read before and every source that comes up right now. For good faith I'll give two peer reviewed sources that dirrectly contradict you: Lazaridis et al. (2016), Pathak et al. 2018 This uses comparisons to Yamnaya Culture DNA samples (ie actually comparing 100% indo-europeans rather than arbitrarily assuming halo-groups which we know is unreliable as they show up in multiple unrelated populations. R1b for example is strong in Chad.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 Lol Autosomal ancestry didn't matter to Indo-Europeans because they were a patriarchal and patrilineal people and they mixed a lot. BTW the R1b in Chad is a very old variation not the same as Steppe variant
Aristocracy comes from Aryan. The Greek Aristos. Sons of Ares. They spread their language, religion, symbols, and technology throughout Eurasia. Christopher Beckwith of Princeton’s latest work “Scythian Empire.” Is a very informative and well researched. Especially when it comes to linguistics & philosophy. The book was published in the beginning of 2024.
Finally someone thats not an extremely niche pre history guy talking about the aryans. Have been interested in aryans since i was a kid, and have seen intrigue on the topic rise just in my own lifetime.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@narutouzumaki2157 yeah i know, as he says in the video the term is just convenient and easy to use. Definitely better than PIE. But yeah if you want to be technical the one who want south arent the same as the ones who went west of course.
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
@@Oera-B No it cannot be used for all Indo Europeans, we just as well might call us all African or Mediterranean to show our once joint ancestry and culture. Aryan is not the name of the Indo Europeans This is an established fact in culture and linguistics, I. e they were indo Europeans, They might have just as well been indo-Anatolian. The word Aryan who's reconstructed term is supposed to belong to the proto language is just a conjecture, The direct word Is not attested amongst any other languages. The conjugates which exist are more adjectives, rather than a cultural identity of a common subset and characteristics of culture and religion which distinguish the Arya from the An-Arya, These qualities only belong in the Indo-Iranains. He should use Yamnaya, Not Aryan if he wants to point to the potic steppe
@0:15 The Sky Father map is wrong, Tyr was a human migration hero like Odin and Moses, he led the Kurgan to the Black Sea region from the steppe, and Odin led them later to Northern Europe. You can tell both these gods were human heroes because of the mythologizing of their real world bodily wounds, the loss of a hand and eye respectively. The Sky Father is instead Thor, who has no such humanizing flaws and who is always represented in myth as a force of nature humanified, who also uses thunder and lightning as a weapon through Mjolnir and whose sacred tree is the Oak, as is for Zeus, who like he also rules the sky. Thor also rides a chariot, which was not that common I gather in Scandinavia, this one drawn by goats in myth, but maybe that is just a way to represent small horses, as they originally were when first domesticated. In any case, it is clear Thor is the Indo-European Sky Father, later supplanted as head of the Norse pantheon by two migration heros, first Tyr to the Black Sea region, and then Odin to Northern Europe.
@@jamespaddock1343 The migration heroes are glorified into the new leading deities, its a Germanic trait not all tribes follow but one I find apropos to reality and mathematics of evolutionary game theory.
@@MrHanderson91 I'm a arahant, not a professor although I tried to be. You have the idea, and you already know I'm right, it is obvious. The real question is why has the Sky Father been hidden?
08:45 "arya" term first appears in Old Rigveda Sixth mandala the oldest one.The main clan of the rigveda calls them selves "arya" and other clans "dasyu or dasa". The main clan here is Puru clan more specifically Bharata-Puru. Later on arya word meaning came to be known as noblity in later vedic texts.
Ahh i wish Whatifalthist knew more about Persian/Iranian civilization & its aryan history, because it would add tremendous depth and context to this discussion. For one Iran literally means the land of Aryans. Please read Iranian leviathan by Jason Jorjani. It’ll really help you on your Persian civilization episode
@@InsaneCopePosse Persia is the Greek/Occidental term. It was used as propaganda to cast the Greek origin myth’s founding hero Perseus as founder of Persia also. Iranians have always lived in Iran.
@@InsaneCopePosse not it wasnt, it was always called iran or IranShahr (land of aryans) for thousands of years by the people. Persia was the latin/greek name which greeks called Iran so the name passed along. iran asked to change its name from persia to iran in 1900s. Do your research before making inaccurate claims
You've become fan of "Fortress of Lugh"? "homeland" but where we were even earlier? My theory is that our lineage started in the times when Western Sahara was green and a fertile stepped river basin, when it started drying we moved away some went north and became Basques and other pre-aryan European natives, bulk went eastward, some stayed behind in Middle East and became Semites while remaining went to Anatolia and from there they went around Caspian sea from both sides, one through Caucasus other through Persia. Only then we arrived at "the homeland". We didn't appear in Caucasus from nowhere after all, what was earlier? In the national park near my town in Eastern Poland there's 800 burial mounds and many more in the fields, LiDAR technology is amazing tool that helps unearth the past without damaging it.
That books I called “the horse, the wheel and language.” I read that one a while back. I also read another that I would love to hear to put your great skills to work on. “Origins of the worlds mythologies” by Witzel. He is professor of Sanskrit at Harvard. Love your work, man. Gives me something to listen to everyday, and I’m thankful!
This is becoming one of my favorite historical education channels. I can minimize it on my screen and do my Greek and Hebrew vocabulary practice above it. Listening to you talk has added so much to my historical Journey. I didn't know I didn't know so much.
the chingiz khan narrative is complete bs. nomadic ppl didn't kill others, they never gave a flying f about settled ppl. why?? you cant kill 100 million humans with 1000 years old technology. it would take centuries of none stop executions. every single mongol soldier would have to spend his entire life doing it. he had like 50k soldiers at most, in actuality not more than 10k.
07:30 "As the only public intellectual who has entered this field, I get to..." That has got to be one of the most hubristic statements I've heard all year.
Rudyard, building on the prehistory theme, I would be absolutely fascinated to hear your thoughts on Göbekli Tepe. Does it not force a reimagination of human history?
I never knew much about the Aryan's but now I know. Thanks! I still await the Achaemenid Persian Empire video. Actually I I kinda want to see an African society video.
Oh yeah an African nation video that sounds nice. I hope they go into a pre-Islamic African country that had no influence from Islam. Islam personally to me strips the uniqueness of said cultures and religions and just ups and replaces it. Its more organic and they had no outside foreign influences. Like the Kingdoms of Alodia, Numidia, Punt, D'mt, Azania, Ancient Carthage, the Ancient Somali city-states, the Macrobian Kingdom and the Aksumite/Axumite Empire.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
You're referring to a tiny part of the genome expressed in phenotypes (skin color, hair color and texture, eye color, etc.). Certain genetic differences may have given the steppe peoples advantages like the mutation that gave them tolerance to lactose found in cow milk which unlocked a huge source of protein.
And, he got his homeland bombed into oblivion with 18 million of his people dead by the end of the conflict. Needless to say, don't fuck around 'cause you might find out.
Not only different races; different languages also blended together on the soil of India. The Indo-Aryan languages include Márát́hii, Rajasthanii, Gujrátii, Punjabii, Kashmirii, Kharáhivalii, Brajabhásá, Bundelkhandii, Avadhii, Chattrisgarii, Bhojpurii, Angika, Maghadhii, Maethilii, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Gáŕhowalii, Kumáyanii and Gorkhalii. The Austric languages are Muńd́á, Ho, Santhal, Khaŕhia, and Momkhám. The Tibeto-Burmese languages include all the languages of Assam except Assamese, Mańipurii and Naga. And the Tibeto-Chinese languages include Ladhakii, Kinnarii, Kirátii, Lepcá, Yiáru, Gáro, Khaśiya, Mizo and Newari.
@@freestylebagua the pyramids in western China have red and yellow haired mummies inside. They planted trees over top the pyramids so people stop thinking about them.
33:39 The Norse and Greek pantheons have some pretty striking parallels with the Hindu gods and the Hindu gods in turn have some surprising parallels with the Shinto gods of Japan. Does this mean there's an Aryan connection with the Japanese as well?
No, Shinto gods have been influenced by Buddhism which has roots in Vedic and Hindu culture. Vedic Hinduism gave rise to Buddhism which spread itself to southeast Asia and China, and from there it went to Japan.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
Hi, I would want to see a video about all the Pre-Achaemenid Japhethic tribes in the Zagros and eastwards (Sagartians, Utiians, Parthians, Bactrians, Drangians, etc) and maybe the non- Japhetic peoples (Cosseans, Cadussi, maybe Elamites, maybe the Gutians of Naram-sin, etc). I know I am an atypical person
The fact that more people don’t use the terms Japhethic and Hamitic while continuing to use the term Semitic is an issue. It’s also an issue that people think there’s only one group that’s Semitic today…
@@AZ-697 if we expand the topic BUT forget about the sons of Eberu, the sons of Ashur, Aram, etc. There are other SHemitic peoples in the world (they are supposed to be 1/3 of the planet) which could include the Dravidians (since they are related to the Elamites, remember I am talking about SHEMITES with an H, not Semites)
@@diegoragot655 Shemites=Semites. The change in spelling is due to the Greek and Latin being unable to represent the sound in the original Hebrew name.
There was kind of a fifth river valley civilization in central Asia, Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, otherwise called the Oxus, that existed in eastern Turkmenistan and around the southern reaches of the Amu Darya river in the Bronze Age. But they don’t have any connection to the aryans. They had cities and big ziggurat like temples but only lasted from max 2400-1700 bc. There was some Urban-ish society before that though, like the Fertile Crescent before Mesopotamia and Egypt rose.
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But their aryan and our aryan does not represent the same meaning. Hitler's fault is that he didnt came up with better name for superrace. Its hillarious when I see Indians and muslims in the comments simping for Hitler and thinking that they are superrace. 🤣
@@notsee494 Well my point is that the origin of the ethnonym "Aryan" is in a Iranian word for the nobility. This made sense because in that region, where the chariot-folk had just conquered the Harappan civilization and the Dravidians, the nobility were ethnically distinct, they were ethnic Aryans, in an apartheid social structure. So, in that sense, the use of "Aryan" as an ethnonym is /kind of/ inherently racist, but the etymologies of ethnonyms and other culturally specific things are always kind of weird like that. Mostly, I'm just glad that we can use the word "Aryan" without needing to summon mental images of Hitler.
Yeah Adolf, the Nazis and his vast followers really bastardized the name. Like the Swastika which represents peace and harmony. I personally looks very cool. Now because the Nazis used it exclusively and widely its stigmatized in the Western World. I hesitate even to put it on official flags in fictional nations I sometime make.
@@AMRARDvermebrungruppe I get you, but my point was that today's indians and iranians are mixing the ethnic aryans with "superrace aryans" and are viewing themselfs as superrace which is ironic.
Everyone should watch the podcast by Shrikant Talageri and his out of india theory 2.0 its on youtube 3 parts each of 2 hrs approx... His work on Rigveda and avesta is revolutionary.. and the elephant in the room " Dasarajna War" the rigvedic tribes name involved are mind boggling then comes the "Varshagira War" and the 360 turn around happens between New Rigveda and Avesta...Its a share history of indoiranians
Thank you for a commentary that wasn't tip toeing around the subjects. Your approach gave us an informative 102. It is nice to find you, and look forward to more content
@34:36 To go along with your linguistic observation, Lithuania also has the highest admixture of Yamnaya DNA of any group in Europe, according to Survive the Jive
The main proponent of Indian nationalist claiming out of india theory and refusing ait is Shrikant Talageri.His books Rigveda Analysis and Avesta and rigveda final evidence are there. His youtube podcasts are also present on youtube. I want everyone to debunk him linguistically if they can😅.
@@flagpole974 Who are the Dacians? They are a sub-group of the Thracians. Genetic tests conducted by Bulgarians said that Bulgarians, Romanians, Northern Italians and Northern Greeks have ancient Thracian DNA when they compared their DNA with DNA found in ancient Thracian tombs. So you're debunked.
@@flagpole974 You must be a Hungarian whose language and founders' origins are in Asia. DNA tests done by Hungarian scientists themselves show that Hungarians are between 5% to 7.4% Asian. Scientific genetic analysis as clear as it gets. Romanians= Thraco-Dacians (with Slavic and a bit Greek/West Anatolian DNA added) while Hungarians are nomadics from Asia with Eurasian genetics. So don't get all superior on me.
I could not stop watching this with full attention, the ideas n info discussed collected together was like coming home but also being shot out in vast exploration, things ive n weve all thought about n read about delivered together. Hiraeth
34:35 Not sure why you think it's ironic that Lithuanian is possibly the closest to the ancient Indo-European language. You said it yourself, North Europe is majority Aryan (Lithuania is pretty up north, for the geography challenged). As to why the language changed less than others: 1) The region is isolated. Dense forests and lost of wetland means it's hard for outsiders to enter. 2) Christianity, and with it the written word, only spread in the region in the late middle ages. 3) The national character of the people is to resist change and foreign influences (first mention of Lithuania in 1009 is when a Christian missionary is decapitated).
Around 36:13 you mentioned the absurdity of essentially stereotyping native Americans as buffalo riding mages. I laughed and realized Shadowrun already basically did it, but that isn't legitimate history.
This was truly pedestrian to put it lightly. If this dude had read David Anthony's "The Horse, The Wheel and Language" then he might have avoided some errors here. 1. Research suggests more of a gradual migration over centuries than a straight up invasion. It's interesting to note how there are various synthesis of cultures in different regions. Most Neolithic farmer men were replaced but many native European women continued. 2. The Aryans or IE were the dominant culture but they were respectful of the cultures they were mixing with and incorporated their cultures into their own. It is totally false to suggest all of the prior gods of Europe were destroyed. IE had about three main goddesses and maybe a few others but all other goddesses of Europe are likely native to those regions. Odin and Lugh probably also are synthesises of native characters with IE. Other gods as well, may be native to given regions. The glance given to religion and culture here is weak and inaccurate. 3. It was horse domestication that made them successful, then advanced wheel tech. Earliest known wheels are from Europe but not IE. They could ride horses before stirups, etc. as Anthony proves, back to 4k BCE. The importance of the horse can't be understanded for transport, food and culture, later more so for warfare. This whole thing was half assed and man boobed. The Persians are especially interesting since they stayed on the Steppe for another millennia longer than the Greeks and Celts, etc. The people who remained pastoral had no use for slaves. We see this with Cyrus liberating Babylon, it wasn't part of their native culture, other than prisoners of war but not in any mass way on the Steppe. The Iranians freed the Jews from Babylon and influenced all Abrahamic religions, another major thing glossed over here. The OG PIE were mostly brown eyed and haired but did carry the blue eyed genes. More of these genetics mixed in with mixture with more Northern Europeans, Funnel Beakers, etc. Don't sleep on the Tocharians either, not even a shout out to many branches here. Slab Grave culture is also interesting for the cross over between the Scythian and the Mongols. This was not a noble presentation, step it up dude.
If anyone is seriously interested then check out JP Mallory "In Search of the Indo Europeans", David Anthony and Barry Cunliffe's work. Dan Davis, Survive the Jive and others on here also give good presentations on the topic. The Baltic people are key for understanding the crossover East to West and who these people were, as they were not conquered by Abrahamic zealots until around 1500 and have still retained much of their native culture into the present day.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
53:53 He actually did read the book... and his thoughts can be summarized entirely as "It's not good". So I have very little faith his errors aren't deliberate.
Yeah, that theory is totally implausible, massive population movements are basically never peaceful or stable, they are a component of chaos. Likewise men don't just submit to having all their women taken, especially in tribal societies. Academics get humanist brained and think power does not lay with the sword, it's utterly alienated from actual historical trends or human behaviour patterns. They have literally said the same thing about the bronze age collapse and the migration period even though we have primary sources conveying exactly how violent and volatile a process it was.
The map really oversimplifies it. The Tocharians were probably an early migration east that had little to do directly with the indo-Iranians, while even the Indo-Iranians themselves come from the corded ware, not Yamnaya directly.
@@ajay4319 Them and many Slavs did get along well because they both hated communism and accepted many as refugees. Also, they were close to the Ukrainians which were Slavs.
@@PassionateSpirit88 i agree. But i was talking about their beliefs. Them and Ukrainians got along because of their common hatred to communism and not because they viewed them as "equals". Any given day, they would've considered a French or an English to be more Aryan than a Slav.
@@ajay4319 I'm not exactly sure. I know from alot of interviews from former German soldiers at that time they mentioned several times that they felt sorry for them in the East and wanted to bring civilization
as an American Buddhist who is also fascinated by the time of the Buddha in India(2500 years ago), you can see the influence of the Aryan peoples(whos time was hundreds of years before) in the culture of the time. in Buddhism the Ariya is the noble ones, the awakened ones, this is the goal of the Buddhist person to eventually attain nibbana(nirvana). The Main path of the Buddhist is the Ariyo Atthangiko Maggo, the Noble Eightfold Path.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
Yes in the 1930s the boy scouts of America would have Aryan badges and other Aryan like badges. Was only in after world war II that we couldn't see the word Aryan anymore
1. there are hypotheses that summarians that called themselves the 'black headed people' came from ancient indus (the peopel that gave us writting & math) 2. Aryans who were considered less advanced than the indus only had 2 advantages were they were once credited as introducing writing along with their chariots..maybe ppl dont think that now dunno i studied 25 years ago. 3 central american conquest wasn't integration while north america was genocide that is BS, central america was extermination and slavery by soldiers, priests mostly men and took women from the natives when they got here, while north America were entire families came to north america to settle. 4. not sure if 1 & 2 are true, but considering both Zoroaster and Buddha mythology ALSO starts in india neither should give anyone the arrogance to claim India didnt have writing until the Islamic expansion in 700AD.
Your story about the Aryans is mostly accurate, but its biggest problem is that it starts without its true beginning. How did the Aryans come to be? Who were the Proto-Aryans? How did their rise even begin? What I can say is that the story of the Aryans and the Indo-European language "begins" in Southeast Europe, on the Balkans, at the end of the Ice Age. The first conditions for the creation of civilization emerged in the valleys of the Lower Danube. Here we find a continuity from the Starčevo, Vučedol, Lepenski Vir, and Vinča cultures, all the way to the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture and Yamnaya. Within these connected cultures, the seed was planted for what would later give rise to the Aryans, namely the development of language and script (the Vinča script), the oldest metallurgy (Blagotin), the first metal weapons, and the first wheel (Ljubljana, Slovenia). These were evolutionary cultures that led to the emergence of the Aryans and their conquests. I recommend everyone read the books of the Italian author Mario Alinei. PS. Ex Yugoslavian languages are most similar to Sanskrit, not Lithuanian. That's not my quot, Sanskrit speakers said it.
Don't know about the West but in my country (Bulgaria) i remember literally learning about the Aryan invasions in school and then I've also read about them on the internet and in books in English. I never feared being called a Nazi for studying history lol.
American here. Born in 1990. I was also taught about the Aryans in school growing up. I believe in/around 2003. The younger generations are victims of school indoctrination with severe HDS (Hitler Derangement Syndrome) which is related to TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), hence certain political parties smearing Trump as “the next Hitler.”
if you go around saying "aryan" over here in the states, then you will be labeled a white supremacist. I was taught separate history of greeks, romans, etc. I was never taught these people were all cousins.
I would love a video about the Hundred Years’ War or the Punic Wars. I don’t know much about these topics, and it would be great to have Rudyard teach about them!
The irony is that the Mongols in central Asia had the impact the Aryans did. Not many people know this but prior to the mongol empire half of central Asia was still populated by Persian and Bactrian or Scythian Aryans who became Pashtuns and Tajiks when pushed south. Central Asia was half Turk half Khoresani Aryan which is a amalgamation of groups but when the Mongols arrived they wiped out the Khoresmian empire which had a Turkic elite and slaughtered the Turks forcing them to join becoming Turco-Mongols. These Turco-Mongols than unified under Timarlane of the Timurid empire and they wiped out all remaining Aryan populations except Samarkand, Tajikistan and half of Afghanistan not populated by Turkmen, Uzbeks or Hazaras. And there's still Pashtuns and Tajiks who look white. I met Nordic looking Aryans in Afghanistan and Tajikistan but most had a "Middle-Eastern" look. The Mongols raped the blonde women taking them into the Hazara and Uzbek genepool breeding out the features making it rarer but why you see a rare blonde hazara who's mostly Turco-Mongol.
42:00 This map makes me ponder why the Hittites didnt conquer the land to the west (Anatolia), or even further North/West. I realize they run into the proto-Greeks (or Mycenaeans if you will), but thats not until the coastal regions (the Dardanelles) at least..And besides, they(~Greek) arent really much of an "empire" as we know it, yet..
@@ZontarDow ahmmm you do know that Proteins Like the Proteins for blonde Hair originated in that Region and north of IT.south Chinese people...the Origin of modern asians did come to that regions only recentely
@@ZontarDow actually even the old Turcic folks are a Mix of your folks and "European"you did end ....questions where do you think do we find oldest fossiles with blonde hair
So I know you've covered the American Civil War, any chance of covering the "cowboy war" era? I feel it's super interesting, kicked off by the O.K. corral that everyone knows, the story of Tombstone (best movie, btw), involves the railroads and JP Morgan, the Rothschilds, and depending on how it went it could have shaped America differently. Idk, I think it could make for an amazing episode, personally.
@32:24 Survive the Jive can fix your errors regarding Western Hunter Gatherers, who genocided the immigrant Anatolian Farmers, whose Y chromosomes did not survive in Western Europe, and whose Y-replacement mix created the stone circles as the megalith builders.
Fun fact regarding the place names in europe: Scholars in greek universities hypothesize that words ending in -nthos are not of Indo-European linguistic origins but from the former indigenous. For example an island names Zakinthos (zante in english) doesnt have an indoeuropean name
Aryan and indo european is not the same thing. Aryan is just a branch of indo european and not all indo europeans are aryans and never used the term for themselves.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
Louis L’amours countless novels often contain references to unknown races that existed before history. As we learn more, those theories become more possible.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
Dude that’s crazy, I’m ancestrally mostly English (also a bit French, a bit German, a bit Scottish and a bit Italian), and my paternal Y haplogroup is also from the “indigenous” Europeans who built Stonehenge. Brother?
An interesting insight into pre-Aryan culture in Europe is the Basque language in northern Spain. It’s a complete lingual isolate in a sea of Indo-European languages
I thought it was not WhatIfAltHist but it seems it still is. Of course he would call Indo-European Aryan and then show a group that were not thr Aryans and say it wrong.
The Tocharians actually called themselves the Arsi and eventually Agni people which means fire people. Archeologist gave them the name Tocharian because they mistaked them as people from Bactria but today we know the Arsi where a distinct ethnic group with their own language.
Yup, another Aryan classic
HWABAG
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Drinking milk to this rn
@@george1248Have a totally nice day!
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!
(Epic music starts)
Awesome to think that this intro came after the FN's quote and was followed by Basil Poledouris' epic music and Cimmerian visuals
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eating a tunafish sandwich on white bread and drinking whole milk to this
Milk is great, but tuna is gross
@@justadummy8076 blasphemy
true aryan traditon
Based
Dude that made me so hungry
Calls the video "Explaining the Aryan Invasions"
Shows a picture of blonde haired charioteers with swastikas painted on their horses running over a brown man five seconds in
RUclips is gonna have a field day with this one.
Which is ironic because there is not a single shred of evidence that "Aryans" were "blondes" and there is no evidence of chariot use much in Northern Europe before brown skinned and swarthy Sumerians and Near-Easterners and Indians-Iranians were using it where these types of people were residing in and there is no genetic evidence R1a genetic carriers were originally blonde in the first place!!!!
"Shhh " you will woke the algorythmsss XD
@@gabingston3430 the perfect life doesn't exist....
what can you say the guy knows his audience
Swarthoids get trampled. Hey I don’t make the rules.
I speak lithuanian. I can understand certain spoken in sankrit such as the words for God, gods, fire, air, etc
For some reason Albanian nationalists really hate this fact and will often contest the fact with pseudo science and no linguistic backup.
Albanians are insecure because in their hearts they know the similarity between Indians and Albanians
Why would Albanians of all people care?
@@Just_some_guy_1The shittier the country the more schizophrenic are the nationalists.
The funniest part is:
I did not make that up
@@Just_some_guy_1 they claim they are the ayran super bloods
the algerian men's women boxing champ did win the gold🎉😂.
Prehistory is weird alot of cultures believe their bloodline has been untouched since creation😅
Your dna is only made up of the past 400 years. Before that, the way dna splits, becomes irrelevant to your genetics.
It’s also such a bad term.
I’m a mut. I pick which part I wanna call myself. I’ll admit it.
@@hismajesty6272 The shameful life of the average Amerimutt.
@@hismajesty6272you’re all of them man. Nothing wrong with what you’re doing
One of the most important event's to our society yet we act like it didn't happen. Great to see a video on it.
Jerusalem did Start From Hittite and Amorrite with a Hurrian Higher cast...do we want to know what did Happen
It didn’t happen
Modern woke leftist academia and historians probably don’t know how to repackage this time period in a non-problematic manner that doesn’t lend itself to validating reactionary natural views.
@@KVSrirangamFound the Indian.
Braindead @@KVSrirangam
Cleopatra was closer in time to Lil Pump than she was to the building of the Great Pyramids
Hahaha
I reject this. Lil Pump isnt real.
@@agayactornamedmichaeldougl6289
the aliens made Lil Pump
Cleopatra wasnt the only queen of de nile
Lil pump is greek. Of the ptolemaic dynasty
Shocked there was no mention of the Scythians
They were Iranians but nomadic
Thought they were later than this era, in the first millennium BC?
@KaiHung-wv3ul They go way back, at least the 8th century BC. It's significant because they largely kept to the same way of life, geographical region, and genetic similarity to the original Aryans. The most worthy descendent in every sense, really.
Hence why I'm shocked they weren't mentioned because they likely provide the best documented example for how the original Aryans may have thought and lived, especially since settling and engaging in agriculture as the Persians did would have totally changed their culture.
@@SwornInvictus True. They still lived fairly nomadic lives until the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
My paternal lineage comes from them, so I'm fascinated by the group.
Check Tomyris movie shot in Scythian language by Kazakhs, it is a Turkic Uralic Altaic Language, end of discussion
Rudyard deserves some credit for speaking mostly without filler expressions like "like", "you know", "um", except "and". Erudite.
He constantly uses filler phrases, are you deaf as well as stupid?
His name is rudyard? For some reason i liked not knowing that
Another great video🎉Also, that point on the Bantu people of Africa is so true😂 As a Nigerian, it's so hilarious how many of the Pan-Africanists here ignore/lie about how Bantu culture and ethnicity soread across sub-Saharan African via conquest abd interbreeding which led to the displacement of many other pre-existing African tribes. They like to act as if only European colonialism did this here
My compliments to you for being so aware of your own culture and history. I am American, that awareness is unfortunately a rare trait whether you are African or European in current era.
@@notsocrates9529 many thanks, friend
Brings to mind rappers talking about how many women they and their crew have slept with, interspersed with waxing about their favorite guns and enemies they've smoked.
This is complete nonsense, bantus didnt displace, colonize and mass murder, stop your nonsense
@@EpicMRPancakewhen white people conquer and enslave, it’s good. When Africans do it, you belittle them and compare them to “rappers”
Indian nationalists say it didn't happen because the Aryans were the upper castes, and separatists use this to frame the upper castes as outsiders and cause disunity and caste conflict among the society. What's funny is that the Aryan invasion/migration happened thousands of years ago and people have mixed alot since even before caste system was locked and ossified, but they still want to frame the upper castes as outsiders the same way they frame Muslims and Mughals as outsiders even though they are completely subsumed by the Indian culture and have nothing in them today that reflects Persian or Turkic culture. It's just politicians creating their own narratives and history cause most people in India and Indian culture as a whole has always been quite disinterested in history. So people tend to believe whatever makes them look good.
Aryans are upper castes?
@@TingTong2568There are two theories on this. The first is that the caste system was already present when the Aryans came and they placed themselves on the top of the caste hierarchy
The second is that the Aryans created the caste system to maintain their genetic purity and put themselves on the top of the system, the same way the Portuguese created a caste system when they colonized the Americas.
@@TingTong2568if you are interested in knowing more, watch "who are Indians" by youtuber mohak mangal. It's in Hindi but there's option of English subtitles. It gives you the most unbiased view of this matter in my opinion.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
Indian nationalists believe all races are indian in origin. Edit to add that its super annoying coming across these people.
Its crazy to think that Cleopatra is closer to the building of the pyramids than the pyramids are to the Finno-Korean hyperwar.
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I hadn't thought about that yet! 🤔🤯
Deep Time is incredible! 😱
Lithuanian is so similar to the original Indo-European language because of Lithuanian nationalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Most people in Lithuania spoke Polish or were bilingual. In all towns and cities, Polish was the dominant language.
The Lithuanian language was mainly used by people in rural areas, and even there, most words were borrowed from Polish but adapted to Lithuanian grammar.
After World War I, there was a Polish-Lithuanian war, but the Entente forbade Poland from attacking Lithuania, so supporters of ending the Polish-Lithuanian union organized the first modern Lithuanian state. Then there was a large conspiracy to start a civil war in Kaunas Lithuania because many Lithuanians did not want to destroy their national identity, identifying as Polish Lithuanians. The conspiracy was uncovered, and many people were killed or imprisoned.
Amid anti-Polish obsession, efforts were made to remove all words of Polish origin from the Lithuanian language. Various methods were used, including searching all chronicles and restoring any words found in old records, trying to reconstruct how Lithuanians spoke in the 14th century.
Today’s Polish language is very different from the Polish of the 19th century. It’s difficult to read 19th-century texts in Polish; while you can understand them, they feel oddly written. Polish from before the 14th century is also understandable but sounds somewhat like a different language, requiring learning to read it properly.
Languages evolve, but Lithuanian was reconstructed in the 20th century to a more primary form, having previously been used mainly by illiterate peasants. The Lithuanian language did not evolve; it was artificially pushed back in time, and then all children were taught it in schools, with punishment for speaking Polish.
That is why Lithuanian might be so similar to the original Indo-European language:
It was the language of illiterate peasants.
It was artificially reconstructed by searching for old words after World War I.
Polish hands typed this
Please do Persian Civilization next please!
Yes I agree
oh god no .
@@samankucher5117 why not lol
@@RoofusRoof19 i am tired of seeing "white people" talking about other peoples cultures only to get it wrong.
tbh thats the reason.
@@samankucher5117 honestly i dont mind, this guy is more well read than most other commentators
“Herd people hurt people”
"HARD People"
Aryan is a linguistic term, while "steppe ancestry" is a genetic term. Why conflate the two? it's unscientific
This
science terms are to autistic for the public
Got the mic, now just need a 4k camera and a greenscreen
And probably a new processor to make sure audio issues don't come up as often.
found the D1 haters
@@fkybones9897 not even a hater i feel like a couple changes and this pod could be getting hundred k views per episode
@@fkybones9897 Diablo 1 is a masterpiece
@fkybones9897 Nah, love the 'cast, just trying to do constructive criticism. :)
Did the Aryan have the advantage of digesting milk, where other cultures did not?
Yes. Diary consumption allowed them to become taller and bigger while also having steady nutritious food source
I think there is also a large population with lactose tolerance in the semitic population.
Basically, if your people were herders the ones who could drink milk beyond their infancy were more likely to survive and procreate.
@martneb there's also an isolated African ethnic group who are lactose tolerant for the same reason. That's at least 3 places it independently developed.
@@ZontarDowThere is one european variant and three african variants, which enables milk digestion in adults.
Mongols had that advantage as well
Thanks for this- it’s bizarre that the largest land based migration in history is more or less unknown
It's funny we hear so often that Sub-Saharan history has been erased but infact the Aryan history has been the most suppressed...I wonder why??? Every people they came into contact with ended up creating incredible civilisations and culture but one group born out of Babylon seems to really hate that notion.
@@MIKE_THE_BRUMMIE Well, sub-saharan history was erased because they didn't have writing to record it. They also didn't build much before the Middle Ages. It's actually interesting the similarities! It's just that Aryans didn't have agriculture, and they did have horses, SSA didn't have horses, but were agricultural.
@@MIKE_THE_BRUMMIE Also, if you haven't, read about the Yuezhi, which I believe are Indo-Aryans as well.
@@MeanBeanComedy are they the group that went as far as the Korea
Glad you actually called it by the real name instead of the PC term "Indo-European".
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
aint nothin indo about it lol the indians are trying to say that they invented civilization lmao
@@buildingandfixing4397 Indus valley was peak of civilization, we had three story buildings made of bricks when Indo-Europeans were living in tipis made of skin and mud houses, so yes, we did invent civilization, cumskin dumfuk
How is "Indo-European" PC?? Also where is the actual real evidence any of this video content false bogus claims are true??? If it is true, disprove the comment I made in OP video......
Indo-European is the correct term
18:33... this is wrong. Yamnaya (the group that kicked off the whole Indo-European expansion saga) DNA has been analysed, their genes indicate that they were mostly either olive-skinned or light-brown. Their facial structures were ambiguous and could fit any category from Europe all the way to India... and if you do a search of facial reconstructions, they look most similar to modern people from the Caucasus region and Iran, not 'white' as we recognize it.
Also, the term 'Aryan' has been proven to be an innovation of the Iranian and Indic branch of Indo-European language family. Europeans stumbled upon this word in India about 200 years ago, and took a liking to it, and some Europeans seem to still have a sentimental attachment to it. It is very irrational. It is like calling a Lusitanian a Brazilian. It makes little sense. This is the main reason why academic scholars stay away from the term 'Aryan'... FYI: It has nothing to do with the misuse of the term by WW2 Germany, it just doesn't make sense to do so. It muddies the waters, and gives the wrong impressions.
insecure intellectuals trying to manipulate the concept of "white" because racial hierarchy either makes them uncomfortable or they feel the most advanced must suffer to benefit the less evolved.
Yes and no.
Yes because they were mostly like what you describe at the start. No because they were the spreaders of blonde hair and lighter skin, and probably the orgin of blue eyes (the corded ware culture, 75% indo-european dna, is the first origins of blue eyes. And the other 2 mutions orginates in western steppe herders which includes the indo-europeans).
So while you are right to say that most of the orginal indo-europeans were dark haired and olive skinned. They also were the people who started and spread the blonde haired, blue eyed, light skinned look.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 I thought the Corded Ware was a mix of Yamnaya and Ancient Scandinavian Hunter-gathers, who had the blue eyes gene? Also, since the Yamnaya also had Ancient Eurasian hunter-gather genes, they would have also had diluted genes for blonde hair. mind you, blonde hair usually occurs due to a macro-haplotype, and when it gets diluted, it doesn't show up any more.
I would just like to say up front how nice it is when maps of Europe include Celts as people.
First homo sapiens in Europe, oldest living culture, and so many times people are like, "ok so history in this region starts with when Germans show up."
The first homo sapiens in europe were there thousands of years before celts existed.
@@arturnicaciodeandrade9861 before the word Celt yes, Greece is just a little baby they can't come up with words before they were born.
We have oral tradition going that far back, and genetics and archeology keep backing us up time after time. After thousands of years of being called liars for telling stories older than most people's gods. Like the plague that wiped out the Neanderthals and gave us a mutation that causes an immune response to babies of foreign men, which lead to Germans killing the entire indigenous population in the north when they came to Europe. They saw no value in women that couldn't produce Germans.
25% of Irish, Ashkenazi, and people in west France have this original mutation. (nobody else) then more recent (around the time the Tuatha de Danann settled Ireland) the father of all gingers appears. He is part of the group with the first recessive trait mentioned that 40k year old mutation to pass on either, both parents have to have it, to pass on both, both have to have both.
Anyway at the time Celts were given our name Greeks and Romans believed the entire population were ginger.
So you could argue the only true Celts are the gingers which was only like 14k years ago (still before the pyramids)
This is such a horrible statement where do I even begin... Do you think the painters of the Chauvet Cave were Celts or something?
Since you mentioned the quote 'Germans', I will just give you the information on the British Isles.
The Celts arrived in Britain around 1000 BC, some scholars disagree, but we will stick with this. The Stonehenge was built in 3000 B.C. and afterwards, so the Celts have nothing to do with that. When was Agriculture introduced there? 4000 B.C.
The entire transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers happened thousands of years before the Celts, didn't Rudyard just say 5000 years ago is recent in terms of prehistory? Like, does this video say that the Celt are "the first modern humans in Europe” or "the first migration of Aryans in Europe"？
@@yanx4797 my response to the first fella seems to have been deleted by RUclips, or perhaps waiting for human review.
Depends entirely on your definition of Celt, are you asking about the people, the language, or the culture?
My family was in Europe about 4k years before the Chauvet Cave was painted. The mutation for gingers happened about 14k years ago.
Our metalworking starts appearing on the sacred isle between 16-12k years ago. The mutation for better night hunting about 10k years ago. Wealthiest people in the world until about 3k years ago. Start getting killed for telling history about 800 years ago because it is offensive to be older than other people's gods.
(oh and by German I mean the people who invaded Europe and don't spell two with a 'd')
@@amn1308 Metalworking on the sacred isle? Wdym?
20:00 basically, the fact of the matter is that in Northern Europe, the scarcer pre-Aryan populations were completely genocided and replaced, while in Southern Europe, the larger pre-Aryan populations survived and the Aryans simply became the ruling class, eventually mixing with the locals. In Greece for example, it is recorded in folk and tales that the pre-Aryan inhabitants were the Pelasgians, who didn't yet speak Greek, and that they merged with the newcomers who spoke it to create the Hellenic Nation.
Spartans for instance
Lol Northern Europeans have some of the highest levels of Pre Indo European male lineages. The traits like blonde hair and blue eyes are pre-Indo-European
Swedes have high amounts of native haplogroup I while Spanish are over 70% R1b which is an Indo-European lineage
@@captainfury497 The opposite, these traits are distinctly Aryan, the pre-indoeuropean inhabitants of Europe are darker skinned, have black hair and black/brown eyes, essentially more like Middle Easterners, or the Southern Europeans of today
@captainfury497 got a source for that? It goes against littetally every source I have read before and every source that comes up right now.
For good faith I'll give two peer reviewed sources that dirrectly contradict you: Lazaridis et al. (2016), Pathak et al. 2018
This uses comparisons to Yamnaya Culture DNA samples (ie actually comparing 100% indo-europeans rather than arbitrarily assuming halo-groups which we know is unreliable as they show up in multiple unrelated populations. R1b for example is strong in Chad.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 Lol Autosomal ancestry didn't matter to Indo-Europeans because they were a patriarchal and patrilineal people and they mixed a lot. BTW the R1b in Chad is a very old variation not the same as Steppe variant
Aristocracy comes from Aryan.
The Greek Aristos.
Sons of Ares.
They spread their language, religion, symbols, and technology throughout Eurasia.
Christopher Beckwith of Princeton’s latest work “Scythian Empire.” Is a very informative and well researched.
Especially when it comes to linguistics & philosophy.
The book was published in the beginning of 2024.
linguistics eh. Good work
Interestingly, the Western Germanic Peoples are said to descend from Týr, the Norse equivalent to Ares/Mars.
Arya/Airyanam/Aryan. These are old avestan and Sanskrit words
all of the greek gods are from egypt, except dionysus
aristos means literally noble/edel/Adel.
Finally someone thats not an extremely niche pre history guy talking about the aryans.
Have been interested in aryans since i was a kid, and have seen intrigue on the topic rise just in my own lifetime.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@narutouzumaki2157 yeah i know, as he says in the video the term is just convenient and easy to use. Definitely better than PIE. But yeah if you want to be technical the one who want south arent the same as the ones who went west of course.
@@narutouzumaki2157exactly Histiry102 used the wrong term
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
@@Oera-B No it cannot be used for all Indo Europeans, we just as well might call us all African or Mediterranean to show our once joint ancestry and culture. Aryan is not the name of the Indo Europeans This is an established fact in culture and linguistics, I. e they were indo Europeans, They might have just as well been indo-Anatolian. The word Aryan who's reconstructed term is supposed to belong to the proto language is just a conjecture, The direct word Is not attested amongst any other languages. The conjugates which exist are more adjectives, rather than a cultural identity of a common subset and characteristics of culture and religion which distinguish the Arya from the An-Arya, These qualities only belong in the Indo-Iranains. He should use Yamnaya, Not Aryan if he wants to point to the potic steppe
@0:15 The Sky Father map is wrong, Tyr was a human migration hero like Odin and Moses, he led the Kurgan to the Black Sea region from the steppe, and Odin led them later to Northern Europe. You can tell both these gods were human heroes because of the mythologizing of their real world bodily wounds, the loss of a hand and eye respectively. The Sky Father is instead Thor, who has no such humanizing flaws and who is always represented in myth as a force of nature humanified, who also uses thunder and lightning as a weapon through Mjolnir and whose sacred tree is the Oak, as is for Zeus, who like he also rules the sky. Thor also rides a chariot, which was not that common I gather in Scandinavia, this one drawn by goats in myth, but maybe that is just a way to represent small horses, as they originally were when first domesticated. In any case, it is clear Thor is the Indo-European Sky Father, later supplanted as head of the Norse pantheon by two migration heros, first Tyr to the Black Sea region, and then Odin to Northern Europe.
So Jormungandr is more important than Gorm and Fenrir? the poetic beef of the last 2 are more detailed
@@jamespaddock1343 The migration heroes are glorified into the new leading deities, its a Germanic trait not all tribes follow but one I find apropos to reality and mathematics of evolutionary game theory.
@@jamespaddock1343 Hercules was certainly a man, Zeus is the Sky Father in Rome or Greece.
That's an interesting idea I've never heard before - can you expand on it?
@@MrHanderson91 I'm a arahant, not a professor although I tried to be. You have the idea, and you already know I'm right, it is obvious. The real question is why has the Sky Father been hidden?
08:45 "arya" term first appears in Old Rigveda Sixth mandala the oldest one.The main clan of the rigveda calls them selves "arya" and other clans "dasyu or dasa". The main clan here is Puru clan more specifically Bharata-Puru. Later on arya word meaning came to be known as noblity in later vedic texts.
Ahh i wish Whatifalthist knew more about Persian/Iranian civilization & its aryan history, because it would add tremendous depth and context to this discussion. For one Iran literally means the land of Aryans. Please read Iranian leviathan by Jason Jorjani. It’ll really help you on your Persian civilization episode
It wasn't called Iran until later on. It was literally Persia
@@InsaneCopePosse
Persia is the Greek/Occidental term.
It was used as propaganda to cast the Greek origin myth’s founding hero Perseus as founder of Persia also.
Iranians have always lived in Iran.
@@InsaneCopePosse not it wasnt, it was always called iran or IranShahr (land of aryans) for thousands of years by the people. Persia was the latin/greek name which greeks called Iran so the name passed along. iran asked to change its name from persia to iran in 1900s. Do your research before making inaccurate claims
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@@nayrtnartsipacify thanks for you agreement!
@@KameroonEmperor I dislike your reply!
@@w.c.s.m.4215 you will not. your fantasy history will stay in the fantasy world. only the Turks were/are/will be herding nomads of Eurasian steppe
You've become fan of "Fortress of Lugh"?
"homeland" but where we were even earlier? My theory is that our lineage started in the times when Western Sahara was green and a fertile stepped river basin, when it started drying we moved away some went north and became Basques and other pre-aryan European natives, bulk went eastward, some stayed behind in Middle East and became Semites while remaining went to Anatolia and from there they went around Caspian sea from both sides, one through Caucasus other through Persia. Only then we arrived at "the homeland". We didn't appear in Caucasus from nowhere after all, what was earlier?
In the national park near my town in Eastern Poland there's 800 burial mounds and many more in the fields, LiDAR technology is amazing tool that helps unearth the past without damaging it.
That books I called “the horse, the wheel and language.” I read that one a while back.
I also read another that I would love to hear to put your great skills to work on. “Origins of the worlds mythologies” by Witzel. He is professor of Sanskrit at Harvard.
Love your work, man. Gives me something to listen to everyday, and I’m thankful!
I did a 23 and me vahuaduo thing (Irish descent primarily) and I got 51-56% steppe ancestry which is ridiculously high for even an Irish
Was the rest cheese grease
@@christiankalinkina239 lol, dont wory i dont larp as aryan dont worry its just interesting
@@aspen1606 I was joking your actually 100% hyperborean I saw it in a dream
I am like 25 percent steppe in india
Me with 35% Steppe ancestry
This is becoming one of my favorite historical education channels. I can minimize it on my screen and do my Greek and Hebrew vocabulary practice above it. Listening to you talk has added so much to my historical Journey. I didn't know I didn't know so much.
When I see the Kazakh landscape.the blood memory kicks in
Ha ha
Greetings from Kyrgyzstan 😊❤
the chingiz khan narrative is complete bs. nomadic ppl didn't kill others, they never gave a flying f about settled ppl. why??
you cant kill 100 million humans with 1000 years old technology. it would take centuries of none stop executions. every single mongol soldier would have to spend his entire life doing it. he had like 50k soldiers at most, in actuality not more than 10k.
07:30
"As the only public intellectual who has entered this field, I get to..."
That has got to be one of the most hubristic statements I've heard all year.
One of the most fascinating event in history, thanks for covering it
Rudyard, building on the prehistory theme, I would be absolutely fascinated to hear your thoughts on Göbekli Tepe. Does it not force a reimagination of human history?
I never knew much about the Aryan's but now I know. Thanks! I still await the Achaemenid Persian Empire video. Actually I I kinda want to see an African society video.
Oh yeah an African nation video that sounds nice. I hope they go into a pre-Islamic African country that had no influence from Islam. Islam personally to me strips the uniqueness of said cultures and religions and just ups and replaces it. Its more organic and they had no outside foreign influences. Like the Kingdoms of Alodia, Numidia, Punt, D'mt, Azania, Ancient Carthage, the Ancient Somali city-states, the Macrobian Kingdom and the Aksumite/Axumite Empire.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
You're referring to a tiny part of the genome expressed in phenotypes (skin color, hair color and texture, eye color, etc.). Certain genetic differences may have given the steppe peoples advantages like the mutation that gave them tolerance to lactose found in cow milk which unlocked a huge source of protein.
Well when the mustachioed Austrian painter was very very deeply upset about the state of his adopted homeland, he made a little ruckus…
And, he got his homeland bombed into oblivion with 18 million of his people dead by the end of the conflict. Needless to say, don't fuck around 'cause you might find out.
Not only different races; different languages also blended together on the soil of India. The Indo-Aryan languages include Márát́hii, Rajasthanii, Gujrátii, Punjabii, Kashmirii, Kharáhivalii, Brajabhásá, Bundelkhandii, Avadhii, Chattrisgarii, Bhojpurii, Angika, Maghadhii, Maethilii, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Gáŕhowalii, Kumáyanii and Gorkhalii. The Austric languages are Muńd́á, Ho, Santhal, Khaŕhia, and Momkhám. The Tibeto-Burmese languages include all the languages of Assam except Assamese, Mańipurii and Naga. And the Tibeto-Chinese languages include Ladhakii, Kinnarii, Kirátii, Lepcá, Yiáru, Gáro, Khaśiya, Mizo and Newari.
@@jothinarayanan980 Khas are more Indo Aryan.
I found your channel last night and binged some. I like your didactic style. I hope to run into you around west Philly.
He lives in Texas now
@22:15 The Yellow Emperor of China was clearly a blonde Caucasian, but excuse me for stating the blindingly obvious yet again
Was he tocharian?
No,
he wasn't even real to begin with
The Great Eurasian civilization of Arian people?¿ maybe
@@AndrwsAnimatics Meh, prehistoric China was more diverse then it has now become.
@@freestylebagua the pyramids in western China have red and yellow haired mummies inside. They planted trees over top the pyramids so people stop thinking about them.
33:39 The Norse and Greek pantheons have some pretty striking parallels with the Hindu gods and the Hindu gods in turn have some surprising parallels with the Shinto gods of Japan. Does this mean there's an Aryan connection with the Japanese as well?
No, Shinto gods have been influenced by Buddhism which has roots in Vedic and Hindu culture. Vedic Hinduism gave rise to Buddhism which spread itself to southeast Asia and China, and from there it went to Japan.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
@@HDB41 Well that sounds like a connection with extra steps.
@@narutouzumaki2157An Iranian weeb, now that's something you don't see every day.
My favourite historian talking about my favoured subject
I can drink milk because of this historical event.
Hi, I would want to see a video about all the Pre-Achaemenid Japhethic tribes in the Zagros and eastwards (Sagartians, Utiians, Parthians, Bactrians, Drangians, etc) and maybe the non- Japhetic peoples (Cosseans, Cadussi, maybe Elamites, maybe the Gutians of Naram-sin, etc).
I know I am an atypical person
The fact that more people don’t use the terms Japhethic and Hamitic while continuing to use the term Semitic is an issue. It’s also an issue that people think there’s only one group that’s Semitic today…
@@AZ-697 if we expand the topic BUT forget about the sons of Eberu, the sons of Ashur, Aram, etc. There are other SHemitic peoples in the world (they are supposed to be 1/3 of the planet) which could include the Dravidians (since they are related to the Elamites, remember I am talking about SHEMITES with an H, not Semites)
@@diegoragot655 Shemites=Semites. The change in spelling is due to the Greek and Latin being unable to represent the sound in the original Hebrew name.
@@AZ-697 why can't we make it another term?? And make the semites just a smaller group within the larger Shemites??
@@diegoragot655 What? I don’t understand what issue you have and honesty what you’re suggesting makes no sense. Have a good day.
I'm proud my ancesters rode dragons to slay monsters. They was taking our women. Now we get to live in the sun.
There was kind of a fifth river valley civilization in central Asia, Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, otherwise called the Oxus, that existed in eastern Turkmenistan and around the southern reaches of the Amu Darya river in the Bronze Age. But they don’t have any connection to the aryans. They had cities and big ziggurat like temples but only lasted from max 2400-1700 bc. There was some Urban-ish society before that though, like the Fertile Crescent before Mesopotamia and Egypt rose.
Toward the later phases of Oxus civilization, there was an increasing amount of genetic mixing with the Andronovo Scythians (Aryans).
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I LOVE that we are reclaiming the name "Aryan!". Though to be quite honest the ethnonym is only really appropriate in Iran and India.
But their aryan and our aryan does not represent the same meaning. Hitler's fault is that he didnt came up with better name for superrace. Its hillarious when I see Indians and muslims in the comments simping for Hitler and thinking that they are superrace. 🤣
@@notsee494 Well my point is that the origin of the ethnonym "Aryan" is in a Iranian word for the nobility. This made sense because in that region, where the chariot-folk had just conquered the Harappan civilization and the Dravidians, the nobility were ethnically distinct, they were ethnic Aryans, in an apartheid social structure.
So, in that sense, the use of "Aryan" as an ethnonym is /kind of/ inherently racist, but the etymologies of ethnonyms and other culturally specific things are always kind of weird like that.
Mostly, I'm just glad that we can use the word "Aryan" without needing to summon mental images of Hitler.
@loganstrait7503 The Hitler derangement is slowly dying off, I noticed. Hell, on Twitter, some people talk about him like he's a deity.
Yeah Adolf, the Nazis and his vast followers really bastardized the name. Like the Swastika which represents peace and harmony. I personally looks very cool. Now because the Nazis used it exclusively and widely its stigmatized in the Western World. I hesitate even to put it on official flags in fictional nations I sometime make.
@@AMRARDvermebrungruppe I get you, but my point was that today's indians and iranians are mixing the ethnic aryans with "superrace aryans" and are viewing themselfs as superrace which is ironic.
I learned an insane amount of knowledge from this. Thank you very much.
Everyone should watch the podcast by Shrikant Talageri and his out of india theory 2.0 its on youtube 3 parts each of 2 hrs approx...
His work on Rigveda and avesta is revolutionary.. and the elephant in the room " Dasarajna War" the rigvedic tribes name involved are mind boggling then comes the "Varshagira War" and the 360 turn around happens between New Rigveda and Avesta...Its a share history of indoiranians
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Thank you for a commentary that wasn't tip toeing around the subjects. Your approach gave us an informative 102. It is nice to find you, and look forward to more content
@34:36 To go along with your linguistic observation, Lithuania also has the highest admixture of Yamnaya DNA of any group in Europe, according to Survive the Jive
I think estonia has the highest.
I dare say they look better than germanics and Scandinavians dare I say
This is pop linguistics. Lithuanian lacks most of the IE verb system.
Waiting for Persian civilization video
The main proponent of Indian nationalist claiming out of india theory and refusing ait is Shrikant Talageri.His books Rigveda Analysis and Avesta and rigveda final evidence are there.
His youtube podcasts are also present on youtube. I want everyone to debunk him linguistically if they can😅.
Talageri forged evidence himself. It's proved
Any book recommendations on this subject? As well as the broad subject of proto civilizational cultures
Source:- trust the tissue paper 🚮
0:03 Funny how you put Illyrians but no Thracians and Dacians on the map.
Romanian here, and I agree with this!
@@Dul131 I'm Romanian as well.
I think there just wasn't enough room. Small map, large font. Also romanians you're not dacian, let it go
@@flagpole974 Who are the Dacians? They are a sub-group of the Thracians. Genetic tests conducted by Bulgarians said that Bulgarians, Romanians, Northern Italians and Northern Greeks have ancient Thracian DNA when they compared their DNA with DNA found in ancient Thracian tombs. So you're debunked.
@@flagpole974 You must be a Hungarian whose language and founders' origins are in Asia. DNA tests done by Hungarian scientists themselves show that Hungarians are between 5% to 7.4% Asian. Scientific genetic analysis as clear as it gets. Romanians= Thraco-Dacians (with Slavic and a bit Greek/West Anatolian DNA added) while Hungarians are nomadics from Asia with Eurasian genetics. So don't get all superior on me.
I could not stop watching this with full attention, the ideas n info discussed collected together was like coming home but also being shot out in vast exploration, things ive n weve all thought about n read about delivered together. Hiraeth
34:35 Not sure why you think it's ironic that Lithuanian is possibly the closest to the ancient Indo-European language. You said it yourself, North Europe is majority Aryan (Lithuania is pretty up north, for the geography challenged).
As to why the language changed less than others:
1) The region is isolated. Dense forests and lost of wetland means it's hard for outsiders to enter.
2) Christianity, and with it the written word, only spread in the region in the late middle ages.
3) The national character of the people is to resist change and foreign influences (first mention of Lithuania in 1009 is when a Christian missionary is decapitated).
I've been waiting for this ever since I heard you mention that you were working on it! Thanks for the upload Bruddah.
Around 36:13 you mentioned the absurdity of essentially stereotyping native Americans as buffalo riding mages. I laughed and realized Shadowrun already basically did it, but that isn't legitimate history.
Thank you! Saw a few podcasts you were on, the two you shared. Good stuff, great thanks and respect from Birmingham, England.
This was truly pedestrian to put it lightly.
If this dude had read David Anthony's "The Horse, The Wheel and Language" then he might have avoided some errors here.
1. Research suggests more of a gradual migration over centuries than a straight up invasion. It's interesting to note how there are various synthesis of cultures in different regions. Most Neolithic farmer men were replaced but many native European women continued.
2. The Aryans or IE were the dominant culture but they were respectful of the cultures they were mixing with and incorporated their cultures into their own. It is totally false to suggest all of the prior gods of Europe were destroyed. IE had about three main goddesses and maybe a few others but all other goddesses of Europe are likely native to those regions. Odin and Lugh probably also are synthesises of native characters with IE. Other gods as well, may be native to given regions. The glance given to religion and culture here is weak and inaccurate.
3. It was horse domestication that made them successful, then advanced wheel tech. Earliest known wheels are from Europe but not IE. They could ride horses before stirups, etc. as Anthony proves, back to 4k BCE. The importance of the horse can't be understanded for transport, food and culture, later more so for warfare.
This whole thing was half assed and man boobed.
The Persians are especially interesting since they stayed on the Steppe for another millennia longer than the Greeks and Celts, etc. The people who remained pastoral had no use for slaves. We see this with Cyrus liberating Babylon, it wasn't part of their native culture, other than prisoners of war but not in any mass way on the Steppe. The Iranians freed the Jews from Babylon and influenced all Abrahamic religions, another major thing glossed over here.
The OG PIE were mostly brown eyed and haired but did carry the blue eyed genes. More of these genetics mixed in with mixture with more Northern Europeans, Funnel Beakers, etc.
Don't sleep on the Tocharians either, not even a shout out to many branches here. Slab Grave culture is also interesting for the cross over between the Scythian and the Mongols.
This was not a noble presentation, step it up dude.
If anyone is seriously interested then check out JP Mallory "In Search of the Indo Europeans", David Anthony and Barry Cunliffe's work.
Dan Davis, Survive the Jive and others on here also give good presentations on the topic. The Baltic people are key for understanding the crossover East to West and who these people were, as they were not conquered by Abrahamic zealots until around 1500 and have still retained much of their native culture into the present day.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
53:53 He actually did read the book... and his thoughts can be summarized entirely as "It's not good". So I have very little faith his errors aren't deliberate.
Yeah, that theory is totally implausible, massive population movements are basically never peaceful or stable, they are a component of chaos. Likewise men don't just submit to having all their women taken, especially in tribal societies. Academics get humanist brained and think power does not lay with the sword, it's utterly alienated from actual historical trends or human behaviour patterns. They have literally said the same thing about the bronze age collapse and the migration period even though we have primary sources conveying exactly how violent and volatile a process it was.
The map really oversimplifies it. The Tocharians were probably an early migration east that had little to do directly with the indo-Iranians, while even the Indo-Iranians themselves come from the corded ware, not Yamnaya directly.
Yes
Corded ware mostly r1a
Yamnaya r1b
Corded ware back migration east
The Nazis believed that the nordics were the most aryan, not the Germans
I think he is bias against 1930s Germany.
But they did believe that slavs were less Aryan than the Germans.
@@ajay4319 Them and many Slavs did get along well because they both hated communism and accepted many as refugees. Also, they were close to the Ukrainians which were Slavs.
@@PassionateSpirit88 i agree. But i was talking about their beliefs. Them and Ukrainians got along because of their common hatred to communism and not because they viewed them as "equals". Any given day, they would've considered a French or an English to be more Aryan than a Slav.
@@ajay4319 I'm not exactly sure. I know from alot of interviews from former German soldiers at that time they mentioned several times that they felt sorry for them in the East and wanted to bring civilization
as an American Buddhist who is also fascinated by the time of the Buddha in India(2500 years ago), you can see the influence of the Aryan peoples(whos time was hundreds of years before) in the culture of the time. in Buddhism the Ariya is the noble ones, the awakened ones, this is the goal of the Buddhist person to eventually attain nibbana(nirvana). The Main path of the Buddhist is the Ariyo Atthangiko Maggo, the Noble Eightfold Path.
19:00 The Slavs aren't more indo-European than the Germans, but its pretty close
Bro half of germans are germanized slavs. And what is that classification who is more and less XD what rules are there for that
Actually Swedes and Irish are among some of the most indo European peoples
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@heksyn2706 West Slavs are Slavicised Germans.
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
Yes in the 1930s the boy scouts of America would have Aryan badges and other Aryan like badges. Was only in after world war II that we couldn't see the word Aryan anymore
Robert Sepehr.
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I just wanted to say that I really find your videos entertaining.
1. there are hypotheses that summarians that called themselves the 'black headed people' came from ancient indus (the peopel that gave us writting & math)
2. Aryans who were considered less advanced than the indus only had 2 advantages were they were once credited as introducing writing along with their chariots..maybe ppl dont think that now dunno i studied 25 years ago.
3 central american conquest wasn't integration while north america was genocide that is BS, central america was extermination and slavery by soldiers, priests mostly men and took women from the natives when they got here, while north America were entire families came to north america to settle.
4. not sure if 1 & 2 are true, but considering both Zoroaster and Buddha mythology ALSO starts in india neither should give anyone the arrogance to claim India didnt have writing until the Islamic expansion in 700AD.
Nobody Claims that Indians did Not have writing until 700 ad
What about the Cucuteni-Trypillia stuff?
Seems important but overly ignored
So Conan lore is pretty much just actual history.
Your story about the Aryans is mostly accurate, but its biggest problem is that it starts without its true beginning. How did the Aryans come to be? Who were the Proto-Aryans? How did their rise even begin? What I can say is that the story of the Aryans and the Indo-European language "begins" in Southeast Europe, on the Balkans, at the end of the Ice Age. The first conditions for the creation of civilization emerged in the valleys of the Lower Danube. Here we find a continuity from the Starčevo, Vučedol, Lepenski Vir, and Vinča cultures, all the way to the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture and Yamnaya. Within these connected cultures, the seed was planted for what would later give rise to the Aryans, namely the development of language and script (the Vinča script), the oldest metallurgy (Blagotin), the first metal weapons, and the first wheel (Ljubljana, Slovenia). These were evolutionary cultures that led to the emergence of the Aryans and their conquests. I recommend everyone read the books of the Italian author Mario Alinei.
PS. Ex Yugoslavian languages are most similar to Sanskrit, not Lithuanian. That's not my quot, Sanskrit speakers said it.
Lithuanian is most similar to PIE period
Don't know about the West but in my country (Bulgaria) i remember literally learning about the Aryan invasions in school and then I've also read about them on the internet and in books in English. I never feared being called a Nazi for studying history lol.
Look into the Vinca culture, even older and in Bulgaria. It may be the true home of the PIE
American here. Born in 1990. I was also taught about the Aryans in school growing up. I believe in/around 2003. The younger generations are victims of school indoctrination with severe HDS (Hitler Derangement Syndrome) which is related to TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), hence certain political parties smearing Trump as “the next Hitler.”
if you go around saying "aryan" over here in the states, then you will be labeled a white supremacist. I was taught separate history of greeks, romans, etc. I was never taught these people were all cousins.
I would love a video about the Hundred Years’ War or the Punic Wars. I don’t know much about these topics, and it would be great to have Rudyard teach about them!
The irony is that the Mongols in central Asia had the impact the Aryans did.
Not many people know this but prior to the mongol empire half of central Asia was still populated by Persian and Bactrian or Scythian Aryans who became Pashtuns and Tajiks when pushed south.
Central Asia was half Turk half Khoresani Aryan which is a amalgamation of groups but when the Mongols arrived they wiped out the Khoresmian empire which had a Turkic elite and slaughtered the Turks forcing them to join becoming Turco-Mongols.
These Turco-Mongols than unified under Timarlane of the Timurid empire and they wiped out all remaining Aryan populations except Samarkand, Tajikistan and half of Afghanistan not populated by Turkmen, Uzbeks or Hazaras.
And there's still Pashtuns and Tajiks who look white. I met Nordic looking Aryans in Afghanistan and Tajikistan but most had a "Middle-Eastern" look.
The Mongols raped the blonde women taking them into the Hazara and Uzbek genepool breeding out the features making it rarer but why you see a rare blonde hazara who's mostly Turco-Mongol.
I know that
Greetings from kyrgyzstan
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42:00 This map makes me ponder why the Hittites didnt conquer the land to the west (Anatolia), or even further North/West.
I realize they run into the proto-Greeks (or Mycenaeans if you will), but thats not until the coastal regions (the Dardanelles) at least..And besides, they(~Greek) arent really much of an "empire" as we know it, yet..
Imagine not being Aryan
I can't. 😕
God made me this way. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Praise Him. ✝️☦️✝️
At least I'm.
im not aryan. im turk. eurasian steppe belongs to us, the turks.
@@dehaman_4_144 no, you belong to Mongolia only
Love to see you guys cover Southeast Asia.
SouthEAST Asia?
Do you mean Southwest Asia?
*Reply to:* _"Love to see you guys cover Southeast Asia."_
Asians didn't genocide central asia, that's why central asia is a mix of white and asia
Considering that West China down to Kaschmir are the place of Origin of the people and that they are Not found today in West China....
uhhh what? They absolutely did. Look what the Han did in what is now western China.
It's a mix due to Russian imperialism, which is why Russian Asia is mostly white and in the late 1980s Kazakhstan was majority white.
@@ZontarDow ahmmm you do know that Proteins Like the Proteins for blonde Hair originated in that Region and north of IT.south Chinese people...the Origin of modern asians did come to that regions only recentely
@@ZontarDow actually even the old Turcic folks are a Mix of your folks and "European"you did end ....questions where do you think do we find oldest fossiles with blonde hair
So I know you've covered the American Civil War, any chance of covering the "cowboy war" era? I feel it's super interesting, kicked off by the O.K. corral that everyone knows, the story of Tombstone (best movie, btw), involves the railroads and JP Morgan, the Rothschilds, and depending on how it went it could have shaped America differently. Idk, I think it could make for an amazing episode, personally.
@32:24 Survive the Jive can fix your errors regarding Western Hunter Gatherers, who genocided the immigrant Anatolian Farmers, whose Y chromosomes did not survive in Western Europe, and whose Y-replacement mix created the stone circles as the megalith builders.
Fun fact regarding the place names in europe: Scholars in greek universities hypothesize that words ending in -nthos are not of Indo-European linguistic origins but from the former indigenous. For example an island names Zakinthos (zante in english) doesnt have an indoeuropean name
It looks like some “let’s not get canceled” got edited out around minute 47.
Aryan and indo european is not the same thing. Aryan is just a branch of indo european and not all indo europeans are aryans and never used the term for themselves.
The Basque people and language are members of the pre-Aryan indigenous European population and language group.
Linguistically, you are correct. Genetically, this is not clear at all.
It's quite interesting that the Aryan Homeland is adjacent to the area where the Garden of Eden is said to be located.
The aztecs believe cortez was their lost aryan ancestor who were light skinned and bearded.
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
@@Oera-B No it cannot
Louis L’amours countless novels often contain references to unknown races that existed before history. As we learn more, those theories become more possible.
Lmao. Very you
Not gonna bring up Robert e Howard
Aryans are indo-iranians not Indo-Europeans(yamnayans), indo-iranian (aryans) are a daughter branch of Indo-Europeans (yamnayans). It's Iranians and Indo-Aryans who called themselves aryans, we since ancient times called our countries as iranshahr and arya-varta respectively, no western cultures ever called themselves aryans before colonization of India. After. After colonization they(westerners) came to know about sanskrit and avestan word "aryan", and some tried to appropriate that word for themselves and popularise it in west. All the descendants of aryans(indo-iranians) are Iranians and indo-aryans & NOT western Indo-Europeans(yamnayans) descendents.
@@narutouzumaki2157 The term "Aryan", originally used as an endonym by Indo-Iranians, can be used in a broader sense to refer to Indo-Europeans generally.
Nah bro the Aryans just used Ymir's curse to expand and then wipe our memories
Dude that’s crazy, I’m ancestrally mostly English (also a bit French, a bit German, a bit Scottish and a bit Italian), and my paternal Y haplogroup is also from the “indigenous” Europeans who built Stonehenge. Brother?
An interesting insight into pre-Aryan culture in Europe is the Basque language in northern Spain. It’s a complete lingual isolate in a sea of Indo-European languages
You should do a video on the Blue Pill Era!
I thought it was not WhatIfAltHist but it seems it still is. Of course he would call Indo-European Aryan and then show a group that were not thr Aryans and say it wrong.
The Tocharians actually called themselves the Arsi and eventually Agni people which means fire people. Archeologist gave them the name Tocharian because they mistaked them as people from Bactria but today we know the Arsi where a distinct ethnic group with their own language.
Ah yes, demonetization.