This document discusses the ancient origins and migration paths of various groups including the Tocharians, Balts, Aryans, and Finnic peoples. It traces their movements from the Urals region starting around 12,000 BC through Asia and back to Europe along trade routes like the Silk Road. Key points discussed include the proposed splitting of Finnic from Proto-Indo-European around 9,000 BC, the domestication of horses around 4,400 BC, Tocharian settlements in western China dated to around 1,900 BC, and the migrations of groups like the Balts, Goths, Scythians, and Saxons back to Europe between 800 BC to 1200 AD.
2. Finnic-PIE Separation >9000 BC
12 m BC
8 m BC
3 m BC
9 m BC
5900
4400 BC Balt
Tocharians
Where they came from - the Urals
Finnic
PIE
Urals
Volga
Pontic
Steppe
4. How they got back to Asia
Domesticated Horses 4400 BC
5. The
Silk Road
What they did
in Asia
Horse Breeding
Trading
Sanskrit
Slavic dialect
Hindu Vedas
Buddhism
Kushan Empire
Chess
How they
returned
to Europe
6. How Aryans went East
They were Hunters
Free Nomads & “Noble men”
7. Agriculture from Assyria & Anatolia
land controls, foreign ownership,
...taxes, fealty, hierarchies >7000
BC
Byzantine Farmers
21. Tocharian Culture in Asia
• Horse Breeding & Trading 1500 BC
• Sanskrit & Slavic Dialect 1500 BC
• Hindu Vedas, Upanishads 1400-800
• Buddhism (Sakya Culture) 500 BC
• Silk Road- Kushan Trading >200 BC
• Buddhism to China <100 AD
• Chess 500 AD
• Tocharian extinct 832 AD
23. The Daina & The Veda
dainà folk-songs, highest expressions
of the native heart and mind.
religious sentiments, philosophy
• Balts & PII >> Daina to India & Persia
Daina became Sanskrit Vedic dhēnā
and the Avestan daēnā in Iran
• the Indo-European root
• “dhi, dhy-ei, dhei,” means
“to think, or to ponder over
26. Spread of PIE Languages 67-3800 BC
Germanic
Italic
Celtic
3800
Greek
5300
Baltic Tocharian
5900
Tocharian
Baltic
Hittite
6700
1000 BC
2500 BC
6700 BC
Balt 5900 BC
Finnic was Parent of all PIE Languages
Slavic 500 AD
27. Language Evolution :
* Finno-Ugric is a “Stem” > Nostratic Language
* 5900 BC Baltic-Tocharian decended from Finnic
* 1500 BC Baltic spoken from west Asia to Poland
*1500 BC Slavic dialect separated from Baltic (Ural)
* 500 AD Slavic became a separate Language
* 1200 AD Slavic Fractionated, Russian emerged
* 1200 AD Baltic Fractionated, Latgalian, Lithuan,
32. Yuezhi Trading Cities of the
Ancient Tarim Basin, Xinjiang
Taklaman Desert
Kucha/
Kuchi
Kurçi
Toch. B
Kashgar
/Kashi
Khotan/
Yutian
Turfan/ārśi,
Gaochang
Tocharian A
r mchiȔ ȕ
Kroran
Yanqi, Agni
Note: Kurçi–Yuezhi (Goth-Kurzeme) Link
34. Slavs
500 AD
Goths
Kursi
400 BC Balts 1500
Saca ... Saxons Scyths BC
Scyths .. ... 400 AD 200 BC
Amazons
800 BC
Migrations North
Balts, Scyths, Saxons, Goths, Kursi
Yuezhi Guti
Kursi
35. Slavics 500 AD
..400 Goths Scyths 200 BC
.... Saxons
...... Rome Mongols
1200 Silk Road ... Western Civilisation
Yuezhi 176 BC Baghdad Kushans
Sakya
550 BC
Caspian Cleavage