Alternate Routes of Migration

This is a serious question, but based off of what we know about the Indo-European Migrations, were these specific migration patterns inevitable or could they equally have just gone South and West into the Levant and eventually North Africa. In addition, were the Mongol conquests inevitable. Ultimately, if Genghis Khan is never born, would some other individual take his place. Furthermore, were these historic migrations inevitable in their course.
 

Albert.Nik

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Indo-Iranian and Tocharian migrations via Volga Basin-Caucasus-Anatolia-Levant-Mesopotamia or Volga Basin-Caucasus-Iranian River Valleys-Indus Valley-India. This would give them an excellent foothold.
 
Particular migration routes aren't necessarily inevitable but certain ones are more probable than others given criteria.
Look how often the Steppes held host to domino sets of migrants.
 

Albert.Nik

Banned
Particular migration routes aren't necessarily inevitable but certain ones are more probable than others given criteria.
Look how often the Steppes held host to domino sets of migrants.
Could you explain the second line? I usually wonder why the Tocharians and the Indo-Iranians would leave the excellent lands around the Volga Basin continuing into Caucasus and instead going into the stark,dangerous and scarce Steppes. They would have found a bounty had they migrated in this route bumping into Anatolia,North Mesopotamia and the Fertile Iranian river valleys from where India can be reached with a good foothold. Steppe and the Desert cuts down the population heavily. I wonder what was the habits of the Proto-Indo-Europeans with respect to these things.
 
Could you explain the second line? I usually wonder why the Tocharians and the Indo-Iranians would leave the excellent lands around the Volga Basin continuing into Caucasus and instead going into the stark,dangerous and scarce Steppes. They would have found a bounty had they migrated in this route bumping into Anatolia,North Mesopotamia and the Fertile Iranian river valleys from where India can be reached with a good foothold. Steppe and the Desert cuts down the population heavily. I wonder what was the habits of the Proto-Indo-Europeans with respect to these things.
The Steppes aren't great for settlement but they are great for travelling on.
 

Albert.Nik

Banned
The Steppes aren't great for settlement but they are great for travelling on.
Maybe. Tocharians migrated into Kazakhstan Russia border in the Afanasievo Culture and then to Tarim Basin. Indo-Iranians migrated into the Uzbekistan/Turkmenistan region before spreading into Afghanistan,India,Iran,Levant. If they had migrated through Greener routes as I said,they could build stable cultures,civilisations and a good populations to spread further smoothly. This is what I think.
 
This is a serious question, but based off of what we know about the Indo-European Migrations, were these specific migration patterns inevitable or could they equally have just gone South and West into the Levant and eventually North Africa. In addition, were the Mongol conquests inevitable. Ultimately, if Genghis Khan is never born, would some other individual take his place. Furthermore, were these historic migrations inevitable in their course.
Basque whaler migrations to Pre-Little Ice Age Greenland and possibly North America
 
If the Indo-Europeans originated on the Pontic steppe like some hypothesis their migration route would likely follow the geography of the steppe meaning they would migrate toward the Ukraine and Central Asia though some may branch out into the Caucuses. Eventually the Indo-Europeans will migrate into the steppes of Armenia, Central Anatolia, and Iran. This is a very common migration route for steppe tribes as demonstrated by the Avars, the Buglars, the Petchenegs, and the Turks and it would be unlikely they would deviate from that.
 
This is a serious question, but based off of what we know about the Indo-European Migrations, were these specific migration patterns inevitable or could they equally have just gone South and West into the Levant and eventually North Africa. In addition, were the Mongol conquests inevitable. Ultimately, if Genghis Khan is never born, would some other individual take his place. Furthermore, were these historic migrations inevitable in their course.

Conquests of Genghis and his successors had little to do with the migrations: most of the ethnic Mongols remained in their traditional region.

Were these conquests inevitable in exactly the same form and scope? Of course, they were not. However the huge nomadic empires had been created on a regular base in the Steppe Belt and the same goes for the nomadic conquests of various parts of China. There is a theory linking these events to the wet/dry cycles within the Steppe, which is not necessarily correct but rather convenient.
 
This is a serious question, but based off of what we know about the Indo-European Migrations, were these specific migration patterns inevitable or could they equally have just gone South and West into the Levant and eventually North Africa. In addition, were the Mongol conquests inevitable. Ultimately, if Genghis Khan is never born, would some other individual take his place. Furthermore, were these historic migrations inevitable in their course.
Magyars to Anatolia. Basques to Greenland. Aztecs to North America. Inuits to Scandinavia. Tocharians to Japan.
 
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