What cultural evidence suggested the existence of Indo-Europeans?
Common elements among different religions and cultures.
What linguistic evidence supports the existence of Indo-Europeans?
Common words in different languages.
What does available information suggest about Indo-European writing?
Indo-Europeans had no writing.
What did an ancient DNA study demonstrate about Eurasian steppe peoples?
They migrated toward Europe and western Asia over about 500 years.
Indo-European hypotheses label
Based on shared cultures and languages.
Evidence for Indo-Europeans
Ancient DNA shows migrations from Eurasian steppes.
Indo-European social hierarchy
Clergy, nobility, and common people.
Main Indo-European economic activity
Livestock breeding, little agriculture.
Proposed Indo-European location
Northwest of the Caspian Sea.
Indo-European language groups
Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Indo-Iranian, Italic.
Period of Indo-European migrations
5th to 3rd millennium BC.
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1. Regarding hypotheses about Indo-European origins, which statements are correct?
2. The linguistic evidence used to hypothesize Indo-European origins includes:
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