Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.61

c13.61

All these migrations of peoples come at a time when there is a breaking-up of the ancient Western Asiatic civilizations and the introduction into the old strongholds of civility, of new blood, new ideas, and even perhaps new techniques, such as the use of the horse-drawn chariot in warfare. From the mixture of old and new civilizations of an altered texture and fabric were in many places to arise, with the dissonant characteristics toned down in a mutual blending over generations. The barbarians imperceptibly assimilated the traditions of the civilization they had despised yet prized; they had conquered only to be themselves conquered at last by its persuasive and subtle power. The attempt in a Dark Age to re-create what the age itself has destroyed is not confined to early medieval Europe.