Georges Dumezil
“During the third and second millennia BC the most important event in the recent temporal history of humanity occurred: from a region that seems to be located between the Hungarian plain and the Baltic, in successive waves, conquering troops set off in all directions who spoke essentially the same language. What had happened? Disintegration of prehistoric empires? Food or climatic difficulties? Innate imperialism, confused call of destiny, busty maturation of a privileged human group? We will never know anything about it. But the fact is there: centrifugal races, in a few centuries, enslaved all of Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern Europe to these bold horsemen; the old inhabitants disappear,assimilated or formed islets which were slowly reabsorbed and of which only the Basque “witness” remains today, at the end of the Pyrenees, and, in the Caucasus, small, very original peoples. In Central Asia, a few grew as far as Turkestan, where their kingdoms would still hold out almost ten centuries after the start of our era, despite Chinese pressure despite the turmoil of the Turks and Mongols.”
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