The spread of civilization history?

Question

My questions;

1. the term "caucasian" comes from the regions of Cocasus. It is a modern days' Russia, Ukraine, etc. Does it mean that the people from Africa traveled to Mid-east, then Cocasus and settled on Western Europe?

2. if then, what does it mean by "Indo-Europe" language? what does India have to do with the Europeans?

3. how did human kinds traveled and spread the civilization? I know the first human appeared on earth is from Africa. Did they travel (spread) to many regions in the world? Where did they arrive first? Did they arrive first in India and then went north west toward to Cacasus?

I want to know, how the human ancestors traveled.

4. so called the "asians", especially the chinese, koreans and japanese have Mongolian heritage. Then the Mongolians are actually the "caucasians" traveled to Asia and settled later?

thank you.

Answer 1

1. The term Caucasian doesn't indicate actual historical migration paths but was simply a term coined many years ago to describe "whites."

2. Linguists can demonstrate the connection between the language spoken in ancient India and modern European languages. Geneticists can demonstrate that the dark skinned peoples of India are actually very closely related to the pale skinned peoples of Europe.

3. There are competing theories about the spread of humans. Some believe that modern humans developed in Africa and then spread outward. Others argue that less developed types first spread out and then developed in parallel in both Asia and Europe.

4. See the answers above. Again, the term "Mongolian" was just a word applied to Asians and is not intended to indicate that Mongolia was the central point of development of modern Asia types.

Answer 2

While this may not be an immediate answer to your questions, you should read Gun, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. His book explains all that you are asking about. Any answer given here would be to simplistic to truly do justice to your questions.