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To: Neeka who wrote (109230)	4/14/2005 4:20:58 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

“It was essentially a meat locker,” he says. “Loads of food. And that allowed them to build up the population density to then go out and move westward and then eastward.” That leaves out half the equation. Central Asia provided abundant food for long periods - but then drought or disease or climate change due to volcanic activity brought famine. Then you had a too large population fighting over too little food. That was when the losers had to move. The history of recorded civilization is the history of one wave of humanity after another, coming off the sea of grass, conquering the settled lands, from the earliest history recorded in records or archaeology. One after another, the peoples came: The Aryans. The Greeks. The Latins. The Dorians. The Scythians. The Celts. The Goths and Visigoths. The Avars. The Huns. The Mongols. The Turks. Just to name a sampling. That's quite a period from the Aryan expansion (5000 years ago?) to the Mongols & the Turks (500 - 1000 years ago). After that, the settled lands began to crowd out the sea of grass.