Farmers Vs Herders

A History of Mankind (19)

With the Caucasus an almost impassable barrier, Indo-European migrations in the 3rd millennium BC headed west and then north and south into Europe, leading to the creation of most European language families, and east and then south into Central Asia, driven by the ancestors of the first Hindus, Persians, Armenians and Kurds.

The migration westwards, acro…