WI: Fully One Branch Indo-European majority Middle East

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Albert.Nik

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IOTL,Middle East was a mishmash of peoples of diverse origins,genetics,appearence,culture,language,religion,orientation of thought,etc. This is one of the historical cause for the instability that plagues the region though not the only cause but a very powerful one. In this timeline,I give you a condition and you can unveil how the ME develops. In this timeline,a massive migration of one Indo-European branch into the ME happens in the early to mid Bronze age. The migration is so massive that in just a few generations,the society and the region is almost unified in terms of ethnicity,language,religion and genetics. The older inhabitants join the new Indo-European empire and become indistinguishable in just two or so generations. Semitic peoples,Elamites,Sumerians,Gutians,etc all join the large Indo-European confederation which comes from the Pontic Region and the Caucasus and the confederation contains bilingual Caucasian peoples and Anatolian peoples, Hurro-Urartians,Georgians,Uralics,etc who join en route. They though retain their language as a second language,adopt the Indo-European language for social and political purposes. Its a sedentary and agricultural expansion and hence this huge flood of people. Babylonian,Elamite,Pheonician,Mesopotamian,etc cultures are built upon by the new entrants. So within the late Bronze age and early Iron age,you have a ethnically and linguistically unified region from Judea to Afghanistan. Politically too,almost unified. You can choose any Indo-Europeans. Tocharians,Indo-Iranians,Cimmerians,Dacians,Thracians,Anatolians,etc,etc. Indo-Europeans are the only group capable of this much change as no other peoples are this populous and widespread. I thought of Uralic but Uralics need to cross IE and hence could be assimilated. So you can begin with the effects.
 

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That's it. That is just it. We're done.

Your unending efforts to get "Indo Europeans" to control areas that always seem to tend "browner" in native population is just too much. Too many warnings, too many kicks, too many PM conversations trying to get you to simply STOP. Clearly it is a band wagon you can't seen to get off.

I'm not going to go chapter and verse on why your efforts are wrong, on so many levels that it is almost mind-numbing. Been there, done that.

Wish you'd listened, wish it didn't come to this. In the end, you can not keep the lemming from the sea, or the whale from beaching itself, or whatever other self destructive metaphor one may choose.

We divorce you.

To Coventry with you.
 
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