who would look like OTL Germans or French or Central European
Have you got a source for this one?
who would look like OTL Germans or French or Central European
Tocharians,Scythians,etc were all Indo-European peoples as most of the people in Europe.Have you got a source for this one?
I didn't know that Sri Lankans looked like Germans or Frenchmen, but ok.Tocharians,Scythians,etc were all Indo-European peoples as most of the people in Europe.
The original Indo-European ancestors of Indians,Sri Lankan and Maldivians were actually similar to Europeans. Due to an Upheavel that is supposed to have taken place in Southeast Central Asia,the original Indo-Aryans became extinct due to mixing. But due to a caste system originating at that age,Indo-European features increase as you go up the Castes. However,Punjabis,Jatts,Gujjars,Kalash,Dards and Kashmiris are the only peoples whom you could compare to an European person, remaining in the Indo-Aryan section. Kalash and Dards are the Purest Indo-Aryans that exist for now. Jatts,Punjabis,Gujjars,etc have a good admixture of Tocharians and Scythians as they live in NW India from where all these empires came from. Indo-Aryans of the Mitanni never touched India in the native territories so they might have remained White. But they are a thing of the Past as well. But sticking to Tocharians and Scythians,they were nothing short of Nordic(before Turkic invasions). In Iran,still the large traces of the Indo-Iranians still exist. Same with Kurds. Ossetians are the purest Indo-Iranians surviving today and are descended directly from Scythians itself.I didn't know that Sri Lankans looked like Germans or Frenchmen, but ok.
I didn't know that Sri Lankans looked like Germans or Frenchmen, but ok.
Tocharians as a whole were Indo-Europeans descended purely from those who migrated from Caucasus and Eastern Europe purely like Swedes,Germans,Russians,Czechs,etc. Tocharians are depicted in paintings clearly with Northern European features. There were no natives there(Tarim Basin,Kyrgyzstan,West Central Asia) and definitely not natives with whom once mixed,European features will go away. The Asian peoples like Turks and Mongols lived a long distance from them at that time yet. Ancestral South Indians couldn't even leave a trace that far away. Also,the cause of Vedic Aryans migrating into India and getting extinct as pure Vedic Aryans is probably because of an Upheavel or a conflict. Had they settled in a different way like having more planned settler kingdoms and empires earlier,you would have majority number of European looking Indians looking somewhat like today's Greeks,Iranians,Italians,etc.Maybe he refers to the mummies of Tocharia or the varied depictions in their own art or descriptions made by Chinese observers. Though, I have little knowledge in this area.
How do you get a strong Kushan empire?Have a strong Kushan Empire
Get the founder Kujula Kadphises or Kanishka to settle large number of Tocharians in Central Asian river valleys and Indian Himalayan foothills who would be brought from Kuche or Agne or Kashgar or some Kushanized Scythians or if possible Anatolians/Iranians or Slavs. Give them incentives to breed more children as did Rome. You will have it.How do you get a strong Kushan empire?
Get the founder Kujula Kadphises or Kanishka to settle large number of Tocharians in Central Asian river valleys and Indian Himalayan foothills who would be brought from Kuche or Agne or Kashgar or some Kushanized Scythians or if possible Anatolians/Iranians or Slavs. Give them incentives to breed more children as did Rome. You will have it.
Can you elaborate please? I doubt such an emperor would love to establish more settler colonies within the Tarim Basin near Kashghar. They would most probably choose Punjab and Uttarakhand near Himalayan foothills,KPK region of Pakistan,Central Asian river valleys and such and after little advancements,towards Delhi or something. But I doubt Fair skinned settlers would like the idea to settle in such hot and sunny regions like Delhi before Industrializing(Arizona,Texas,Australia,Nevada were settled by White people post Industrial age AFAIK). First they would settle and dominate the Central Asia after unifying it and after a sufficient advancement,they would come into mainland India with stream punk like industrial empire. If they were that unified and continued like that,I am sure they could have done. They could have easily defeated the Huns and Mongols assimilating them I to Tocharians but Tocharian population would be very huge so little genetic markers if any. Or they may never enter the Empire or the West at all and stay where they are after getting defeated by Kushans. Later,the steampunk like Solar colonies would be settled in hotter regions of India.I'm loving the idea of a Kushan, or Tocharian Empire effectively importing an urban population.
-SCENE BEGINS-
A slaver, a slave and a buyer are standing inside the walls of a Tocharian City.
Buyer : "Hello, welcome to Kashgar, move over to the right and we'll break your chains once we've paid the slaver"
Slave : "What?"
Buyer : "Well, you see, you're free - to settle."
Slave : "What?!"
Buyer : "We needed more farmers, you were a farmer, and well - the hike is a bit of a bother"
Slave : "WHAT?!"
Buyer : "Relax, you're free now that you're here, now have a glass of water and we'll find you a plot of land and a spear"
Slave : "Wh...at?"
Slaver : "Thanks for the gold, [John]"
-END SCENE-
Tocharians and the Anatolians were Easternmost Centum speakers for a native population though Greeks were that far at one time,they weren't native. Today,it is English which is also a Centum language and the easternmost place is Australia/NZ(They are also interesting linguistics wise- Tocharian is a Centum language (like Romance and Germanic), while the Indo-Iranian languages are Satem languages (Baltic and Slavic are, too).
Can you elaborate please? I doubt such an emperor would love to establish more settler colonies within the Tarim Basin near Kashghar. They would most probably choose Punjab and Uttarakhand near Himalayan foothills,KPK region of Pakistan,Central Asian river valleys and such and after little advancements,towards Delhi or something. But I doubt Fair skinned settlers would like the idea to settle in such hot and sunny regions like Delhi before Industrializing(Arizona,Texas,Australia,Nevada were settled by White people post Industrial age AFAIK). First they would settle and dominate the Central Asia after unifying it and after a sufficient advancement,they would come into mainland India with stream punk like industrial empire. If they were that unified and continued like that,I am sure they could have done. They could have easily defeated the Huns and Mongols assimilating them I to Tocharians but Tocharian population would be very huge so little genetic markers if any. Or they may never enter the Empire or the West at all and stay where they are after getting defeated by Kushans. Later,the steampunk like Solar colonies would be settled in hotter regions of India.