Page 103 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

earliest boyhood, have a career open to them in the southlands,
if they desire it. And many of them do.
They are no ordinary hired warriors, these charioteers from

the north, with their outlandish Indo-European language and
their mumbo jumbo of horse lore and training. They are an
elite, to be treated as nobles and ranked with the priests or the

younger princes of the king’s house.
Before the end of the lifetime that began in 2000 b.c. some
of the young warriors have become more than a corps d’elite of a

foreign king. By intrigue or by violence, by marriage or by treaty,
not a few of them have become the actual rulers of the foreigners
they had come to serve.
The Indo-Europeans are on their way south.