Alternative development of Civilizations in Asia

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Hello folks, I am planning to make an interesting timeline in which I will divert the Indo-Iranians into Eastern and Central Russia and settle kingdoms and Empires there.

In this timeline, what I want to make it interesting is, if the Native Indian civilizations are given time to recover from the damage caused by a Climatic change and do so, building newer civilizations around the Ganges, the Central Indian rivers of Narmada and Southern rivers of Krishna, Cauvery and Godavari.

However, the point to be noted is that Indian Civilization wouldn't be "Pure" anything by ethnicity and origin because such a thing is just impossible as the Climatic regions, Migration pathways and Developmental pathways simply won't allow such things.

You will have influences from the Middle East here. The origins of such influences would be Elamites, Gutians, Egyptians, Sumerians, Mesopotamian Semitic civilizations, Hurrians, Urartu and many such kingdoms. You'd have some migrations from these regions too. They would settle among the numerous river valleys. Iran and Afghanistan will be a migration and settlement highway. You will also have a few Anatolian and Armenian migrations. The Indus valley already had links and contacts with these civilizations and hence it wouldn't be very hard to attract them to settle alongside the rebuilding Harappan Civilization, which would come up in Gangetic region.

The Punjab region, Kashmir, Parts of Afghanistan, which would be quite empty will start attracting the people from the Fertile Crescent and Greater Iran and there would be a few Civilizations built by them, that would come up here.

Indo-Iranians will migrate Northwards from Andronavo Culture, in this timeline. They will meet South Asia a Millennium later from what they did in OTL(Around 1700-1500 BC). They will encounter more developed and far more diverse civilizations compared to OTL. Western Siberia, Permian regions, Volga basin, Udmurtia will be where Indo-Iranian civilizations and kingdoms will come up, which will have a lot of Uralic influence along with Indo-Iranian.

Transoxania is a backwater of the Indo-Iranian empires and the various South Asian empires. That would be where the first contact happens. The social, religious and national aspects of Asia would develop far more differently in this timeline. India would have a lot of conflicts and would be far more diverse. It would be quite developed by the time any Indo-European contact happens. Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Punjab, Gujarat, Sindh will see kingdoms built by people who migrated from Iran, Mesopotamia, Biai, etc in the Bronze age-Iron age transition. Ganges and Narmada will have civilizations built by those remnant people of the Harappan Civilization along with other latter day migrants from the North and the West.

Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery will have Dravidian Civilizations which are quite smaller and would soon be overshadowed and conquered/influenced by people from the Kingdoms in the North which would produce an Empire like the Vijayanagara.

Admist these diversity and conflicts, an unexpected development takes place. Southern Kingdoms, which are now a fusion of the Dravidian and the Northern Kingdoms' migrations, would begin seafaring into the vast Indian ocean and discover the habitable but emptier regions of Madagascar and South Africa, on one side and seafarers on the East establish connections with the Southeast Asia, more influenced by Chinese and also by the larger Indo-Iranian civilizations who pass down the influence from Siberia-Silk Road-China-Southeast Asia. Since there are an another Indo-European peoples called the Tocharians in these region, I am not going in detail about them as they are quite small. They will probably assimilate with the Indo-Iranians.

Because of this development, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Madagascar will have strong civilizations by around 300 AD.

What I need here are some complete details about Civilizations in Iran, India, Mesopotamia and Asia Minor before 2000 BC.

Thanks @Bassarion Korax for inspiring me to make such a timeline and giving me so many ideas, through his story-lines. I hope you don't mind me copying a bit from you!
 
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Also, I want a lot of details about Austronesian civilizations, also.

Because, I'm looking to create a Dravidian-Austronesian hybrid cultures in Madagascar, Indonesia and Sri Lankan islands.

But I'm not getting good sources for Proto-Dravidians as Bassarion Korax also needed, a few days ago. If I don't get good sources for that, I'll keep Dravidian civilizations limited to Indian and African peninsular regions only and get Chinese and North Indian influence pervade Southeast Asia, instead.
 
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Are you @Albert.Nik by any chance?
No.

What actually got me to do this are two things.

One, reading Bassarion Korax's ideas and at the same time, I feel sad for the older Civilizations in South Asia to go into History with almost no trace after all their sophistications.

So I want to make them thrive, at least here.

Edit: The difference between his and mine as it seems, he wanted Indo-Europeans controlling more lands with "Non-White" people and I want Indus Valley and Non-Indo-European civilizations stronger in South Asia and Middle East.
 
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I will continue this one.

Let me start. What could be the best POD to have Tocharians and Indo-Iranian peoples(Aryans, Iranian peoples and Nuristanis), the two major Indo-European peoples who migrated Eastward from the Yamnaya and the Corded Ware cultures, to have a more sedentary lifestyle and hence lay the foundation to build more powerful empires in the later days? I think starting Agriculture in the Caucasus and the Pontic Steppe would give the good foundation for this but I have in mind regions deeper North in Russia like Karelia, Moscow region, Chuvashia, Bashkiristan, Chelyabinsk, parts of Kazakhstan, etc.

I need opinions for these. And coming to the religion, I want to have a very different landscape from OTL one. I would like to see Turkic Tengrism mixed with Tocharian and Indo-Iranian religions while the civilization is still in Central Asia and Iran, and then expand slowly, phase by phase into India after the Indus valley has long gone and the people have migrated. I would have them expand into Northern river valleys first and then, like a colonial empire, expand into the rest of the Subcontinent. I would like to give East Asia good touches of Tocharian, Tengrist and Indo-Iranian religious influence, along with some small friendly settlements there, too.
 
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An alternative of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe would be Anatolia->Iran->split, one group to Levant, one stays in Iran and Anatolia and another closely associated group colonizes Bactria and Sogdia, if the Pontic regions are strictly suitable for Nomadism only.

They could practice and advance Agriculture and Sedentary life in the process of spreading through the whole route.
 

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Are you @Albert.Nik by any chance?
No. Albert.Nik is here. :)

I've posted my coming back message in the Non Political Chat and clarified. The OP is a bit interesting but I would stay away from these at least till I get things together and prepare things to post it without breaking rules. Till then, I will not engage in these things for a quite long time.
 
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