Page 72 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM
B.C. TRADE ROUTES ARE SHOWN BY DOTTED LINES. THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS IS TO BE DOMINATED BY THE EXPANSION OF THE INDO-
EUROPEAN SPEAKERS FROM THE SOUTH RUSSIAN STEPPES, AND OF THE SEMITIC­
SPEAKING AMORITES FROM THE NORTH ARABIAN DESERTS.