What's the deal with the Caucasus? It seems to be filled - /his/ - History & Humanities

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Anonymous
2017-03-09 08:55:05 Post No. 2478909
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Anonymous 2017-03-09 08:55:05 Post No. 2478909 [Report]

What's the deal with the Caucasus?

It seems to be filled with hundreds of different meme ethnicities that are the washover from ancient civilizations and conquerors but somehow survive rather than assimilate fully like most Mesopotamians/Anatolians did and now are a clusterfuck of ethnic wars for independence and the right to a sovereign state.

Anonymous 2017-03-09 11:17:33 Post No.2479163
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Anonymous 2017-03-09 11:17:33 Post No.2479163 [Report]

I mean yeah I guess that's pretty much what the deal is

Anonymous 2017-03-09 11:24:53 Post No.2479191
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Anonymous 2017-03-09 11:24:53 Post No.2479191 [Report]

>>2479163
But how did they avoid the assimilation process?

Is it cause of the mountainous region that protected clusters of them every time some foreign force tried to add them to their empire?

Anonymous 2017-03-09 11:30:44 Post No.2479216
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Anonymous 2017-03-09 11:30:44 Post No.2479216 [Report]

>>2478909

>assimilate fully like most Mesopotamians/Anatolians did

I don't know about that. There are dozens of meme ethnicities in Mesopotamia. Less so in Anatolia but that's because of conflict rather than assimilation

Anonymous 2017-03-09 11:43:58 Post No.2479256
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>>2479216
I know, that's why I said "like most".

But most are still semitic and speak similar languages with religion being the main factor of difference.
But outside the standard Caucasus languages, you got everything from the fucking descendant of Scythian/Sarmatian, to Pontic Greek and different Oghuz Turkic dialects.