More than likely they didn't have enough money to pay the Mercanarys so they gave them land.

And honestly when it comes down to Celt's, Many tribes didn't aceapt payment in terms of money or wealth but in terms of land.

smart

On the other hand, Germanic/Slavic people's did not use that strategy. Being on average more war like than the Celtic peoples, Overtook the other people's with shear force of there migrations.

And on average Germanic/Slavic people's migrations lasted longer. Raiding and pillaging on average more than the later.

Poles, Ukrainians, Belorussians, and Russians are all genetically extremely similar and cluster very close on PCA charts. Czechs and Slovaks have some sort of pre-Slavic Celto-Germanic substratum, meanwhile the South Slavs are genetically the least Slavic. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4558026/

Mhm.

yeah that sounds exactly like what common sense would tell you

Within reality i wouldn't be remise to state that Poland has some the Highest R1A ratio's within the Slavic world.

50% when it comes to the main area within Poland such as Krakow-Lublin-Warsaw area.

"sorbs" always reads to me like some doge meme making fun of slavs

It’s either the Proto-Slavs replaced the Polish Iron Age population, or the Polish Iron Age population was genetically similar to the Proto-Slavs.

Genetically similar is the best explaination.

im about if anyone else is

be in general chat

Alright.

wti

I mean, Poland is close enough to the proto-slavic homeland that it probably doesn't make a difference either way

The Area which many Western Slavic nations sit were in reality empty. Minus some Germanic/Celtic tribes still lingering near by.

@Skeleton what are the genetics of south slavs then

Damn Turks...

*South Slavs almost got replaced by Tatars*.

I've heard the Suebi were routinely killing off ppl in modern Poland/eastern Europe turning it into a no man's land

So makes sense it was empty pre Huns

The Hun's had forced many out. Within reality Germanic people had fled those regions for almost a century by then.

Slav's merely seeing a mixture of weakness in the South and to the West pushed out.

*And do i mean pushed*.

@vexmasina44 South Slavs mostly descend from Bronze and Iron Age Balkan populations, but have some Proto-Slavic DNA. Slovenes are likely the most Slavic of the South Slavs, meanwhile Bulgars or Macedonians are the least Slavic.

*God Macedonians*

They are an intresting Gentic look at.

@Mr. Nessel someone sent me that sargoy vid

somewhat decent actually

@Skeleton what are you basing the slavic-ness on

Dude
macedonians are bulgars
but they larp as ancient greeks

*R1A*

macedonia was part of bulgaria taken by serbia after second balkan war
but they failed to integrate them into serbian society

so all that was lef for " macedonians" is larp

^

@Galahad This study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4558026/

It’s a study of the genetic history of the Balto-Slavic populations using Y-DNA, mtDNA, and autosomal DNA.

thanks

@vexmasina44 besides your own group who is your favorite ethnic group in the Balkans