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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 11:17:58 GMT
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In article <hubey.785359521@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
H. M. Hubey <hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu> wrote:
>sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:

>There are further questions: Unless the IE folks liked living in
>harsh lands, there's no explanation of why they conquered/settled
>Anatolia, Iran, India, Central Asia while gingerly avoiding 
>the "Land Between the Rivers". ...

	Actually, there was a brief Indo-Aryan presence about 1500 BCE in 
that territory, the Mitanni kingdom.

	Mallory has more details, including mention of a horse-training
manual with recognizable Indo-Aryan vocabulary.


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