>>21091216Well I'll try
The Aryans originated as mammoth hunters on the Eurasian steppes and eventually over the course of thousands of years adopted nomadic pastoralism
This lifestyle leads to fundamentally different ways of thinking compared to agriculture, because you have much more time to think and speculate as a pastoralist and you have less material resources compared to an argiculturalist, who can store his grain without maintenance unlike livestock
Pastoralists also had to graze and therefore move frequently, meaning they could not dig in and build fortified settlements, which would result in them retaining a strong martial culture due to frequent conflicts with other tribes and cattle raids
Farmer races developed complex economic systems where wealth was more of a weapon than the sword, and because there was less reliance on military prowess there was more extreme polygyny
As a steppe pastoralist, you need your tribe to be willing to fight alongside you at all times, so it made sense to have a more equitable distribution of resources and women to ensure their loyalty
For the farmer, acquiring resources was of the utmost importance because it was the only way you could buy into your society, whereas for the martially oriented pastoralist, your military prowess and therefore your ability to defend your own livestock and raid the livestock of enemies is what ensured your survival
This also manifests in how Europeans are genuinely curious about the world and learning for its own sake, rather than to acquire resources. When the microscope was invented, Europeans brought the invention to the Turks, Indians and Chinese, but none of them cared for it because there was no immediate material benefit to be gained
In the end, the Aryans passed down this philosophy of aristocratic liberty to Europeans, whereas everywhere else there was one emperor who dominated the empire and the relationship of superior to inferior was master-slave rather than lord-vassal
