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  2. Germanic peoples - Wikipedia

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    The East Germanic peoples, the Langobards, and the Suevi in Spain converted to Arian Christianity, [284] a form of Christianity that believed that God the Father was superior to God the Son. [285] The first Germanic people to convert to Arianism were the Visigoths, at the latest in 376 when they entered the Roman Empire.

  3. Indo-European migrations - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian or Gothic in older literature) [217] were an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin, identified by their use of the Germanic languages which diversified out of Proto-Germanic starting during the Pre-Roman Iron Age. [web 14]

  4. Proto-Indo-Europeans - Wikipedia

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    However, Aryan more properly applies to the Indo-Iranians, the Indo-European branch that settled parts of the Middle East and South Asia, as only Indic and Iranian languages explicitly affirm the term as a self-designation referring to the entirety of their people, whereas the same Proto-Indo-European root (*aryo-) is the basis for Greek and ...

  5. Migration Period - Wikipedia

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    Germanic peoples moved out of southern Scandinavia and northern Germany [9] [10] to the adjacent lands between the Elbe and Oder after 1000 BC. The first wave moved westward and southward (pushing the resident Celts west to the Rhine around 200 BC), moving into southern Germany up to the Roman provinces of Gaul and Cisalpine Gaul by 100 BC, where they were stopped by Gaius Marius and later by ...

  6. List of early Germanic peoples - Wikipedia

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    This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (May 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The list of early Germanic peoples is a register of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations in ancient times. This information comes from various ...

  7. Kurgan hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    However, after Karl Penka's 1883 [14] rejection of non-European PIE origins, most scholars favoured a Northern European origin. The view of a Pontic origin was still strongly supported, including by the archaeologists V. Gordon Childe [15] and Ernst Wahle. [16] One of Wahle's students was Jonas Puzinas, who became one of Marija Gimbutas's teachers.

  8. Eurasian nomads - Wikipedia

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    Eurasian nomads form groups of nomadic peoples who have lived in various areas of the Eurasian Steppe. History largely knows them via frontier historical sources from Europe and Asia. [1] The steppe nomads had no permanent abode, but travelled from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.

  9. Indo-Iranians - Wikipedia

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    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 major parts of Eurasia in waves from the first part of the 2nd millennium BC onwards. They eventually branched out into the Iranian peoples and Indo-Aryan ...