The whole of old-world history consisted of the population of the steppes of Central Asia increasing to a point where they couldn't live in that area. They emigrated to [or invaded- it depends on your view] adjoining areas. The people in adjoining areas moved on...until eventually some people got pushed into the Atlantic or Pacific or Indian Ocean or wiped out or made slaves or serfs. The size and speed of incursion varied of course, peaking with peoples like the Tatars and Mongols, but it was a steady process. It continued until around the seventeenth century, when armament developments [see the musket and bow thread in the History forum] meant that nomads lost their military superiority over settled peoples. The last such event was probably the Tatar Manchus' invasion of China. W.H.McNeill, in Plagues and Peoples, suggests that bubonic plague may have become endemic among central Asian rodents in Genghis Khan's reign, so that eventually the population could never again become large enough to effectively invade neighbouring countries.Xylene said:Just for interest's sake, why are Europeans called Caucasians, when the populations of the Caucasus Mountains are mostly of Central Asian origin? Pardon my ignorance, but did the present-day European races come from this area a long time ago? Or is there another reason? Or no reason, for that matter, just misinterpretation?
jennyRater said:
android said:
skumara said:How many european subgroup are there anyway? I mean caucasians,......etc?
Relevant to the discussion above are not Von Braun and his staff who helped the US to put a man on the moon, but rather those involved in the bogus race theory which gave an invalid basis to the notion that Aryans are supposedly superior and therefore have the moral right, even obligation, to create more Lebensraum for their prosperity.
Neildo said:
The scientists- applied engineers etc- were uninterested in the racial mythology of deluded fools like Rosenburg. It's worth noting that the greatest technological innovation of WWII- the atom bomb- was not achieved by the nazis.Neildo said:
On the contrary: they refused to believe and use Einstein's theories for mythological racist reasons. Ths meant they didn't think an atomic bomb was possible. the nazis' conviction of their racial superiority made them invade the USSR and mistreat the people who welcomed them and would have aided them against Stalin; it made them declare war on the USA. If the nazis hadn't been stupid as well as vile they might have won.
Thersites said:
: the Wirbelrohr was a plasma generator of the 'pinch' type dreamed up by those silly German idiots years before anyone else even bothered to investigate fusion, not fission.... later used as prototype for the British initiative at Harwell.