Timeline/Chronology: Alternate Indo-European/Indo-Aryan migration and domination in the East

Albert.Nik

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In this Timeline or Chronology,I will discuss about how Indo-Europeans and their descendant cultures and peoples would migrate from the Steppes and the Volga Basin. In a gist,I will have the Indo-Iranians and Tocharians migrate into Asia not through the desert lands on the Eastern coast of Caspian sea but rather from the Black sea-Balkans-Anatolia-Northern Mesopotamia-Iran(green regions)-Afghanistan-Green regions of Central Asia and and Upper plains and Himalayan foothills of India which were quite empty-Rest of India.

This would be the route. You would have a number of Anatolians,Hellenics,Thracians,Albanians,Celts,Uralics,Caucasians,etc join in small numbers,the Indo-Iranians(Iranians,Indo-Aryans and Nuristanis) and Tocharians who would be more numerous early on before they migrate and settle Eastward and transform the regions. These are not nomadic pastoralists but agriculturalists cum pastoralists with a semi settled life style. There would be more women in the Indo-Aryan,Iranian peoples in this timeline unlike in OTL,hence. Indo-Aryan country would be as I said in large regions of Himalayan foothills and the upper Himalayan-originating-river plains of Punjab,Uttarakhand OTL regions with ideal climate in the beginning and would spread out more after becoming more numerous and taking in more people in and assimilating into their empire/kingdom.

Iranians would also be more numerous like the Aryans and the Tocharians in the OTL Iran (which the Aryans were also dominant in this ATL) itself and would be split into two groups. One goes into Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh OTL regions and another group conquers some Green parts of Central Asia and establishing and joining the large Tocharian Empire who also took a similar route but came earlier and have gained a good foothold unlike OTL. The religion would be an Indo-Iranian one that would be a far large version of Zoroastrianism and would be adhered to by all these peoples. All these Indo-Iranian kingdoms and empires would be very close to each other and in the Modern era this would become somewhat like the Indo-Iranian version of the European union or something like that. Or they could also become a single country called "Airyanem Vaejah" or "Aryavrat". Stay tuned for those things. I would begin my timeline from the early Sintashta days.

Note: I know how to be careful with a lot of things and how to go about without bringing in anything sensibly unacceptable. So point out only if you have something interesting or enjoyable to say.
 

Albert.Nik

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3500 BCE: Afanasevo Culture appears in the Bulgaria,Macedonia,Serbia region. The language is Proto-Tocharian. The people are Tocharians. These are very similar and identical to Urnfield Culture of the Italo-Celts. Migration seems to have happened from the West Volga Basin. Anatolians are migrating via the Caucasus route and the two will touch at one point in Anatolia while Tocharians head east towards Green regions of Northern Iran and increase in numbers en route practicing Agriculture and settled animal rearing and the migration is driven by more Indo-European groups arriving. Thracians and the Greeks are just behind. Their Italo-Celtic cousins are moving towards Central Europe and North Balkans.
2500-2100BCE: Sintashta Culture takes form in Romania and Serbia region by around 2500 BCE. These are Indo-Iranians who will form a central figure in our timeline. Proto-Indo-Iranian is the language.
 

Albert.Nik

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1800BCE: Andronavo Culture takes form in Southern parts Anatolia,Northeast Iran,Kurdistan regions. Soon Indo-Iranians increase in numbers and split into three groups after moving deeper into Iran to first settle in the Greener river valleys. Three groups form. Indo-Aryan,Nuristani and Iranian. All look same for now. 60% around in each group have light eyes and hair as in OTL Andronavo. Numbers increase drastically as the Indo-Iranians now move towards Indian plains in the North. Iranian peoples split into groups. Northern Indo Iranians settle with the Tocharians in the Greener valleys of Central Asia and South Indo-Iranians settle in Maharashtra,Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat OTL. Indo-Aryans are the largest group and have settled in the Himalayan foothills and Punjab,Haryana and Uttarakhand regions. Indo-Aryans are the most populous and the friendliest group of all Indo-Europeans for now. Native populations are not interfered with anywhere as they have the gender ratio,resources,technology,knowledge to flourish on their own. As they grow more and more numerous and the kingdom grows,Iranian kingdoms on both sides and Tocharians grow friendly with them. The genetic composition and appearence hasn't changed for any group since the Andronavo as they didn't invade/attack or interfere with any other groups. They flourished on their own. Fourth Indo-Iranian group has taken birth in this timeline from the Indo-Iranian peoples who stayed back where the Andronavo existed in the Middle East and in this timeline,even the Middle East is also Indo-European. All this settlenents have completed by 1500-800BC range and the empires and the people are quite strong and having good footholds.
 
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Albert.Nik

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800BCE: Iranian peoples and Tocharians dominate the regions of Kashmir and North of that. Aryans dominate the the Himalayan foothills and the Northern Plains and have allotted autonomous territories for the Native Non-Indo-Europeans and are very truthful in maintaining these agreements. Slowly,as the Indo-Aryan empire grows in size and population,some people willingly join of their own will without any force. Even the Iranian peoples who went South also maintain similar settlements and arrangements. Iran and Afghanistan are dominated by both Indo-Aryans and Iranian peoples while Afghanistan also has a lot of Nuristanis,KPK is shared between Iranian-Tocharian division of the North and Indo-Aryans.

Next post is about the evolving Religious and social structures after which there will be a map and then further timeline.
 

Albert.Nik

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Spring 790BCE: The Indo-Aryan king and queen(king and queen of the second most numerous Indo-European group and in general,second most numerous European group after the first place taken by Italo-Celts and the third place of numerous European groups is shared by Iranians,Tocharians and the Germanic peoples. This is the demography of greater Europeans and European descendents for now) calls a summit at Shimla,his honorary capital and his resort town inviting Iranian peoples Kings and Queens and the Tocharian Kings and Queens too. They meet to decide their religious belief and makeup that would receive patronage in these kingdoms and would be thought to the general populations by Kings and their circles. Kings and Queens are themselves priests and others could join the royal circles by merit as well as descent.

They arrive at an Ethnic cum Universalizing religion based on all these Indo-European mythologies and both Ethnic and Universalizing components are strong and are very strategic. New Temples with Aryan(not 20th century ones) and Tocharian Gods,symbols spring up all over the four kingdoms and their cities. The Indo-Europeans and the Greater European family/mega-clan are having their brightest time yet all over the World.
 
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Albert.Nik

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Sanskrit is the religious language of the Indo-Aryans and so is their official language and the spoken language but the latter includes Dardic and Gandhara too.

For the Northern Iranian-Tocharian kingdom it's both Kuchen and Avestan languages. And spoken languages include Scythian,Bactrian,Sogdian and other Tocharian languages too.

For the Southern Iranian kingdom,it is Avestan as a religious language and spoken languages are Persian and Kurdish.

For the Indo-Iranian group in the middle East,it is a separate branch of the Indo-Iranian family called "Paschimaarya" translated as Aryans of the West. This doesn't exist OTL.
 

Albert.Nik

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From the thread title, I was looking for an PIE migration into China.
My focus is North India,Afghanistan,Central Asia and Iran. Tell me if it's confusing and I'll change the title. But in China,Tarim Basin and the valleys North of it would be involved.
 

Albert.Nik

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Some reviews done and migration patterns from Balkans to the East will have to be changed considering that the type of migration doesn't sound fully plausible.

Later things will remain almost or fully unchanged.
 
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