Why were Indo-Europeans so succesful, /his/?
>>1427660
They invented the wheel and shiet. Also I guess Europe and Iran are good places to build an empire
>>1427660
Because chariots made it the most widespread language family in various parts of Eurasia, which inevitably lead to it being spoken by the civilizations that eventually rose in those areas, one of which conquered the world.
You mean why were the Spanish, English, and French so successful?
Because let's be honest it was pretty much all them.
>>1427660
Get a better quality map damnit.
>>1427807
Depends on the age,no? I mean during the time of the first Persian empire the achaemenids controlled approximately 51% of the world population. Additionally the Scythians controlled HUGE masses of land in eastern europe and central asia makin the Iranian people the propably most powerful group during that time.
>>1427660
they all derive their culture and languages from the greeks
>>1428222
Even the cultures which are older than the greeks?
>>1428222
t. Pavlos Barbar
>>1428264
like? ancient greek is older then sanskirit for example
>>1428327
sanksrit stems from proto-indo-iranian and proto-indo-european, not ancient greek
Because original Indo-Europeans were genetically close to Finnish people.
>>1428382
What the fuck are you talking about.
>>1429262
Don't stir the dank memester or you will face terrible autism.
>>1429296
this
>>1427807
>spanish
just for a little while. They were raped by moors for 8 centuries .
>>1429405
they werent raped by the moors for 8 centuries.
They were raped for 3 centuries, like 711-1000, after that it was them raping moors who would only lose territory.
By the 1200s they could have reconquered all of Spain, but prefered to keep the Kingdom of Granada as a tribute paying vassal.
the Spanish Empire in the Americas lasted over 3 centuries, 1492 to 1810. And Spain was the most powerful European nation from the Italian Wars in 1525 when they captured the King of France in the battle of Pavia, to 1643 when the French finally managed to beat them in Rocroi.
There may not have ever been such a people as "indo-europeans."
>>1429767
Where'd the language come from then
>>1428327
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek
>9th century BCE to the 6th century CE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit
>Era ca. 2nd millennium BCE–600 BCE
>>1429767
it is an abstraction, but a people who spoke proto indoeuropean existed, and were most likely the Yamnaya culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamna_culture
>>1429776
Technically we don't know there ever was such a language (although most consider it likely). As for who spoke it and when, we have only various highly speculative hypotheses. We know nothing about them, including whether they could be described as a single culture at all. We don't know if they were "successful," only that their language never died out.
>>1429759
>1492 to 1810
Spain only lost Cuba in '98
>>1429867
So I would count that as 4 centuries
>>1428327
Wew if you got a coin every time you told a lie you would have paid all debts by now.
>>1427807
>eurospics
Wew.
Somebody have that chart with the rank of achievements/inventions showing Britain, Germany, France and Italy first and meme so-called civilizations like Muslims far behind?
>>1429262
Most European cultures and people stem from the breakdown of the Finnish Empire
>>1429915
this
the scythians, tocharians, sogdians, thracians, phrygians, dacians, celts, latins were all incorrectly labelled IE when infact they are paleolithic Finn survivors
>>1430059
More than survivors, they were colonists evolved from them, their language culture, and genetics to the pre-existin substratum of non finnic people. While they evolved, though, the inhabitants of their original homeland turned on themeselves, de-evolving in a cannibalstic culture due to the unnatural long winter that hit that land, triggered by either a Hwang weapon of last resort, or their own defence mechanism gone rogue (the reports are quite lacking here)
>>1428222
>WE
The Greeks are just one branch of the Indo-European tree, the Indo-Europeans greatly predate the Greeks and much of Greek language and religion was derived from and influenced by the Indo-Europeans
