Indogermanen

Table of Contents

Agenda Battlefield

Prehistory
The Indo-European Question
I. Approaching the Origin
Linguistic Evidence
Word Comparisons
Toponymy
Archaeological Evidence
Corded Ware and Ochre Grave Culture
Bell Beaker Culture
Mesolithic and Division
Anthropological Evidence
Complexion and Genetics
Depigmentation

II. History of Expansion
Conditions of Origin in the Würm Ice Age
End of the Ice Age
Sedentarization
Prerequisites for Indo-Europeanization
Schema of Language Change
Wheel and Horse
Advancement in the Neolithic
The Eastern Indo-Europeans
The Western Indo-Europeans
Ethnogenesis of the Bronze Age
Aryans in India
Anatolians and Armenians
Mycenaeans, Sea Peoples, and Dorians
Celtic-Italic Peoples
Balto-Slavs
Proto-Germans
Kingdoms and Tribes of the Iron Age
Medes and Persians
Hellenes
Italics
Blonde Hair in Antiquity
Celts
Germans
Migration Period and Viking Age
Sassanids and Sarmatians
Slavs
East Germans
West Germans
Norsemen
Western European Nobility
European Colonization of the World
Expeditions
Portugal
Spain
Netherlands
France
England
Russia
Italy, Germany, and Japan
Europeanization of the World
Retrospective

III. Nature of the Indo-Europeans
Underlying Character Traits
K-Selection
Monogamy
Warlike Nature
Social Cooperation
Curiosity for Discovery
Ambition
Organization
Stubbornness
Inventiveness
Synthesis
Are Indo-Europeans Germans?

Indo-European Cultural Characteristics
Excursus: Haplogroups
What Haplogroups Show
Haplogroups in Indo-European Studies
East and West
Excursus: Remaining Counterarguments.