In the long history, there were many ethnicities all over the world, that had their own unique way of life, culture, and history. However, some of these ethnicities sadly died out. Due to warfare, disease, or assimilation into another culture.
But this doesn't mean that they're gone. They still live on through their descendants that has their genetics in their DNA or through the artifacts and culture they left.
But if you were able to choose one ethnic group, to survive to this way, with some of their people, being full genetically from the past, and their culture somewhat preserved, who would it be?
Here are some of the options through a specific POD, which one?
- Taino - Arawak ethnic group once living across the Caribbean, from Cuba, Hispaniola, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Jamaica. Although extinct as an ethnicity, lives on through their descendants in Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
- Lucayans - A branch of Taino, living in the Bahamas. Went extinct due to Spanish Colonization
- Picts - A group of peoples who lived in what is now northern and eastern Scotland.
- Neutral Nation - An Iroquoian-speaking people who lived in what is now southwestern and south-central Ontario in Canada, but went extinct due to disease, and warfare from the Iroquois Confederacy in the 17th Century.
- Beothuk - A Native American tribe living in Newfoundland, before going extinct in the 19th Century
- Volga Bulgarians - Bulgar people living in Volga region, before dying out.
- Jaegaseung - Descendents of Jurchens living in Northern Korea, before being assimilated into Korean society.
- Capayán - Indigenous Tribe living in Argentina, before being subjugated by the Inca, and going extinct with the Spanish Colonial Period.
- Volga Finns - Finnish People living the Volga region
- Phoenician/Punic People - An Ancient Semitic People that inhabited Phoenicia (Modern Lebanon) and Carthage (Modern Tunisia)
- Emishi - An ancient ethnic group living in Japan, before being defeated during the Heian Period. Although, some historians theorize that the Emishi had a connection to the Ainu people, but this is just speculation.
- Guanahatabey - A distinct group from that predated the Taino, living in Western Cuba, that went extinct during the Spanish Colonial Period
- Sadlermiut - A Native American group living in Canada, with some believing them to have been the last remnants or Dorset Culture or a mixture of Dorset and Thule Culture, (Although genetics show otherwise). Went extinct in by the early 20th Century.
- Crimean Goths - Last of the Gothic tribes living in Crimea, before going disappearing in the 18th Century.
- Scythians - An Ancient Steppe Indo-European nomadic groups in the Eurasian steppe, until the 3rd century BC
- Khazars - A semi-nomadic Turkic people that was notably to converted to Judaism
- Guanche - A people living in the Canary Islands, before being conquered by the Spanish, and intermixing with the Guanche. Although their culture and language died out, they live through genetics.
- Other (Write it down)
So, with this list down, who would you want to save?
Sidenote: I know that some of these ethnic groups does live on through DNA and Genetics, like the Taino through their descendants in the Caribbean. But what we're here to talk about hypotheticals, about certain ethnic groups living as a distinct ethnicity.
Also, I was initially about to put the Moors in the list, but really couldn't decide, so if you want to put it, put it on "Other". Also, groups included in "Other" would be Ancient ethnic groups, such as the Huns.