Atlantis History.com: I. FORCED MIGRATION

Descendants of Legendary Atlantis
by
Constantin Benetatos

Are Northern Europeans more pure descendants
of the Atlanteans than their Mediterranean counterparts?

I. FORCED MIGRATION.

THE RISING WATER LEVEL IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FORCED THE INHABITANTS TO HIGHER GROUNDS. THE ATLANTEANS, WHO WERE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH, DID NOT TAKE LONG TO REALIZE WHAT WAS HAPPENING AROUND THEM. THEY MAY HAVE ATTRIBUTED THIS CALAMITY TO ACTS OF DEITIES OR TO NATURAL PHENOMENA, BUT FOR MOST PEOPLE IT WAS VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND. A MASS MIGRATION MAY HAVE STARTED FROM THE ISLAND OF ATLANTIS IN ALL DIRECTIONS. THE MAJORITY WENT TOWARDS NORTHERN EUROPE WHICH WAS UNINHABITED AND NOW FREE FROM ICE. MANY MAY HAVE BEEN WELCOMED IN THE SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN BUT OTHERS MAY HAVE MET HOSTILITY. THE ATLANTEANS, HEADING TOWARDS NORTHERN EUROPE ,WERE OF A CIVILIZED AND TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY. THEY WERE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THEIR HUNTER-GATHERER ANCESTORS OF MILLENNIUMS PAST.

THE NORTHWARD MIGRATION CONTINUED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. AS THE ATLANTEANS WERE SPREADING APART, THEY BECAME MORE ISOLATED FROM OTHER GROUPS HEADING NORTH. THIS ISOLATION HAD A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON THESE MIGRANTS. THE VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE THEY POSSESSED NEEDED APPLICATION AND APPLICATION IS VERY DIFFICULT WHEN PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY MOVING, TRYING TO SURVIVE AND CARRYING WITH THEM FEW OR NO TOOLS. A FEW TRACES OF THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN BE SEEN TODAY. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE THE STONEHENGE WHICH WAS PROBABLY CONSTRUCTED IN THAT DISTANT ERA. AFTER A FEW GENERATIONS, THEIR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WAS LOST, FORCING THEIR DESCENDANTS TO RETROGRESS TO NEOLITHIC CONDITIONS. THEIR RICH LANGUAGE BECAME SIMPLER WITH THE PASSING OF TIME, BUT IT WAS NOT LOST. FROM WHAT CAN BE SEEN TODAY AND BY ANALYZING THE RACES OF MAN, THEIRS WAS A NORTH, WEST, EAST MIGRATION WITH SMALL GROUPS SETTLING AND COLONIZING THE HIGHER GROUNDS AROUND THE SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN.


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