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The Corded Ware culture in Middle Europe (third millennium BCE), [web 1] which arose in the contact zone east of the Carpathian mountains, materialized with a massive migration from the Eurasian steppes to Central Europe, [10] [web 2] [11] probably played a central role in the spread of the pre-Germanic and pre-Balto-Slavic dialects.
The Indo-Iranian peoples, [10] [11] [12] also known as Ā́rya or Aryans from their self-designation, were a group of Indo-European speaking peoples who brought the Indo-Iranian languages to parts of Europe, Central Asia, and South Asia in waves from the first part of the 2nd millennium BC onwards.
This timeline tries to show dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East/ South West Asia .The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Its president, Walther Wüst, believed that the Germans were directly descended from the Aryan 'Nordic race', which spread into Asia until racial mixing led to 'degeneration' (Entartung) and 'denordification' (Entnordnung). [123] In the late 19th century, student fraternities in Austria and Germany already used 'Aryan clauses' to exclude Jews.
A map showing territories commonly considered part of the Middle East. The Middle East, or the Near East, was one of the cradles of civilization: after the Neolithic Revolution and the adoption of agriculture, many of the world's oldest cultures and civilizations were created there.
For one, there were a series of films produced by Lothar Zotz with titles like Threatened by the Steam Plough, Germany's Bronze Age, The Flames of Prehistory, and On the Trail of the Eastern Germans, all of which delved further into the supposed prehistory of the German peoples. These films used the appeal of myths, the glory of the ancient ...
German orientalists and historians during the Nazi era, like Heinrich Schaeder, Heinrich Lüders, Helmut Berve, Fritz Schachermeyr, Walther Wüst, and Wilhelm Weber, adopted this racial thesis of a northern migration to Asia, believing that Nordic "Aryans" once colonized the Middle East and Inner Asia to defend their Nordic homeland against ...
[39] One group were the Indo-Aryans who founded the Mitanni kingdom in northern Syria; [40] (c. 1500 – c. 1300 BC) the other group were the Vedic people. [41] Christopher I. Beckwith suggests that the Wusun, an Indo-European Caucasian people of Inner Asia in antiquity, were also of Indo-Aryan origin. [42]