Indo-Europeans migrated across Eurasia, becoming Indians, Europeans etc.
Norsemen settled in France and became Normans who conquered England and invaded Ireland.
"...the Sea Peoples - that buccaneer horde of displaced Cretans and European barbarians, some of them from the far North..." (p. 284)
- mostly raided Egypt and became ancestors of the Philistines although a smaller number of them entered and intermarried in Lebanon and Syria, becoming ancestors of the Phoenicians.
The Time Patrol has to know about unrecorded migrations. Specialist Keith Denison traces Aryan clan migrations in "Brave To Be A King" and "Amazement of the World." Poul Anderson summarizes the ancestry of both Philistines and Phoenicians in "Ivory..." He embeds his readers in history and prehistory.
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Yup. People move around a lot.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And when they do so in armed hordes they become invaders eager to seize whatever land thought grabable. Pharaoh Ramesses III, second and greatest king of the XX Dynasty of Egypt, fought hard battles on sea and land to drive away those Sea Peoples, some of whom became the Philistines.
Ad astra! Sean
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