A Pan-Indoeuropean Country

Proto Indo European Homeland is a hostile land with little resources. Compare that to Anatolia, Transoxania,Balkans,Italic Peninsula,Iberia,Gaul,Tarim Basin and Kashmir(the territories covered in the first wave). Scythians were the ones who dominated the PIE homeland before eventually Russians and Ukrainians took over. Even they migrated into Europe(it's said that they are the ancestors of Hungarians,Balkan Slavs in part) and India(ancestors of Jatts,Khatris,Nairs,Tulu Bunts,etc,etc). So that's not a worthy land. If say all Indo Europeans migrated to one place as a huge confederation and start massive cities like the Ancient Mesopotamia,it could be possible.
Within no time,Tocharians split into the Afanasevo culture and Indo-Iranians (probably even Balto-Slavs) went into the Sintashta culture and eventually Indo-Iranians went into the Andronavo culture. The Anatolian Lydians,Phrygians,Hittites,etc went off quickly into the Anatolia. So that precludes this already. Say all Proto-Indo-Europrans cross the Caucasus mountains and the Black Sea into Anatolia,ME and Balkans like the Anatolians before all these splits happened,this could be possible. Anyway @metalinvader665 is quite an expert in these things.

Is it poor though? Ukraine is certainly not a poor homeland and civilization centre.
 
Maybe a super Russia that not only wins world war 1, or some equivalent, but that manages to conquer Iran and northern india, while also building a massive navy. But, it definitely won't annex a lot of territories , but it can puppetize them, so that they are kind if like of like one country.
 
Napoleon wins, establishing the First French Empire as the hegemon of mainland Europe... for a time. However, the French under an aging Napoleon II or under Napoleon III, get into a rematch with Russia 50-60 years later. Europe has industrialized enough by then that this second series of Napoleonic Wars can last years, exhausting France, Russia, and the German states caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Britain engages on its own terms and can send specialized amphibious invasions through allied states with comparatively low casualties.

As France is worn down and the Napoleonic sphere collapses about 70 years after its creation, the British Empire integrates former Coalition members as satellite states, and conquers non-French parts of the French Empire such as the Low Countries, Rhineland and Illyria. The British Empire steadily takes most of Europe under its sphere of influence becoming the new industrial supplier and taking control of French-owned industries in the Low Countries and Central Europe. In interest of keeping the greater British Empire, which rules Europe and India, together, closer economic, social, cultural, and political integration is pursued. One part of this is the creation of a pan-Indo-European ideology. In the midst of a conservative-aristocratic version of Romantic nationalism and various Nordicist ideological streaks as present in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the pan-Indo-European ideology is the more inclusive/populist one by comparison, despite being crazy by modern eyes, and spreads widely among loyalists in the British sphere in Europe.
 
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Albert.Nik

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But if you extend this thread into a Future History division too,there could be a Lion King-2,Simba's Pride(1998) like reunion of all Indo-Europeans in an advanced future age! Some kind of History-Science fanatic regime that could come to power as a large party with wings in each country(like the Ba'ath) dominated by Indo-Europeans from Ireland to India and build some kind of futuristic systems to do so! But continued discussions in FH or chat.
 
A Soviet wank during WWII. Both the western allies (mainly the British empire) and the axis screw up so that the Soviet Union end up conquering all of Western Europe, Iran, Afghanistan and British India.
 

Rishi

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But if you extend this thread into a Future History division too,there could be a Lion King-2,Simba's Pride(1998) like reunion of all Indo-Europeans in an advanced future age! Some kind of History-Science fanatic regime that could come to power as a large party with wings in each country(like the Ba'ath) dominated by Indo-Europeans from Ireland to India and build some kind of futuristic systems to do so! But continued discussions in FH or chat.

Duly noted.
 
Is there any way for there to be a Pan-Indoeuropean country in which all of the native lands of the Indo-Europeans (from Iceland in the west to India in the east) are united into a single country and for that country to still exist today?
The Basques would be lonely.
 
I feel like if a state were to unify a region that big with such a diverse amount of cultures, they may as well go for he rest of the world as well. Other than that, it'd undeniably be a Mongols-type situation
 
The Achaemenids defeat Alexander and Rome continues its ascendancy. The border between the Roman and Persian empires is fixed at the Bosporus. ITL, the Romans view the Persians similarly to how they viewed the Greeks. Eventually Roman and Persian nobility begin to intermarry, involving themselves in each others affairs of state and a unified, but highly decentralized, empire slowly emerges. Instead of fighting each other they will begin expanding into Germanic and Scythian/Saka lands. It's not clear if the Achaemenids were Zoroastrian in the way that the Sassanids ways, so this could lead for greater religious synchronization.

Yea this seems like a Roman wank is the best option here.
 

Skallagrim

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Pretty sure that in terms of arable land and soil fertility, the Ukraine whips all those areas.

The soil there is damn heavy, though. Highly fertile ground, but you do need a heavy plough before you can really utilise it effectively. The relatively late introduction of that particular instrument to Western Eurasia (compared to China, where they'd had it since time immemorial) rather stunted a lot of areas in Northern Europe. Once it was introduced, you at once see Ukraine becoming a breadbasket.

Get yourself a heavy plough, and (literally) reap immense riches!
 
The soil there is damn heavy, though. Highly fertile ground, but you do need a heavy plough before you can really utilise it effectively. The relatively late introduction of that particular instrument to Western Eurasia (compared to China, where they'd had it since time immemorial) rather stunted a lot of areas in Northern Europe. Once it was introduced, you at once see Ukraine becoming a breadbasket.

Get yourself a heavy plough, and (literally) reap immense riches!
A pan-indoeuropean empire would presumably stretch to China's border, so transmission of that particular technology could be hastened.
 
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