
Episode 11: Germanic Ancestors
The History of English Podcast
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The History of the Indo Europeans
There really is no consensus of opinion as to the exact timing and order of these events. Indo european speech might have been emulated because the chiefs who spoke it had larger herds of cattle and sheep, and they had more horses than the peoples of northern europe. The culture of the indo europeans allowed and embraced territorial expansion. When it came to raiding and warfare, the hippies may have blended their mastery of horses and wheeled wagons into the creation of chariots for use in warfare and raiding. We may never know exactly why that happened but i alluded to some of the possible factors in the last episode.
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