- 10 May 2013 01:07
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I am very interested in the migration of populations in pre-modern times. I like to find examples of peoples migrating from one place to another. So then I am wondering, would it have been possible for some Europeans in the 14th century to migrate across Eurasia and settle in Manchuria for example? Imagine a king in a European country sent some nobles with horses, supplies, agricultural experts, warriors, women etc and said "Go as far from here as you can". Then this group of a thousand or so would migrate east and keep going, giving birth to more children, surviving attacks of hostile peoples in the steppe, settling for a few periods to cultivate food. Eventually after about a hundred years they then arrive in Manchuria and get permission from the state in charge there to settle permanently. Then you can imagine that they would have descendants to the present day. Would such a scenario have been possible?
Something like this did happen in around the 1600s or 1700s. The Kalmyks migrated from Mongolia to the Volga and settled there. Apparently this migration took thirty two years. They went over land without using modern technology. After WWII some even apparently migrated to France. It is quite something to think that a people migrated from Mongolia to France by land...
Something like this did happen in around the 1600s or 1700s. The Kalmyks migrated from Mongolia to the Volga and settled there. Apparently this migration took thirty two years. They went over land without using modern technology. After WWII some even apparently migrated to France. It is quite something to think that a people migrated from Mongolia to France by land...