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Prior to industrial revolution, mass immigration was difficult, not only because of logistics but tribalism.
by pkkkzip 1y ago
Prior to industrial revolution, mass immigration was difficult, not only because of logistics but tribalism.
- ruszki 1y agoHungarians mass migrated about a thousand years ago from the Ural Mountains, several thousands of kms from present Hungary. Germans mass migrated to Hungary hundreds of years ago, especially after Mongols and Turks killed most of the population there. Italians lost their appetite to coriander because the mass migration of Germanic people around and after the fall of Rome. It was more difficult, but it happened many-many times.
- david38 1y agoYea, and like you just proved, it was very difficult. Hence the choice to do it in large groups.
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- peterfirefly 1y agoAnd they left very little trace in the genes of modern Hungarians. They did leave their language, of course. The Turks ruined a large part of Europe but their genetic footprint in Turkey is only about 8%.
- SJC_Hacker 1y agoWhere are you getting these numbers from ? Without digging up old cemetaries (if they’d still exist) and sequencing DNA, there’s a lot of assumotions and conjecture
- anon291 1y agoNot really no. Any student of linguistics is quickly dispelled of this notion
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- anthk 1y agoIf I sort out 20 Spaniards from different provinces and regions, you wouldn't guess if they were Spaniards, French, South Germans, North/South Italians or even Irish.
- SJC_Hacker 1y agoTell it the Vandals, the Goths, the Huns, the Angles (I.e English), the Normans, the Danes, the Mongols, the Turks, etc.