Paper 79 Overview: Andite Expansion in the Orient

Asia constitutes the ancestral homeland of humanity, where Andon and Fonta originated and where their descendant Badonan established a primitive cultural center in present-day Afghanistan that endured for over half a million years. This eastern nexus of human development witnessed the differentiation of the Sangik peoples from Andonic stock and hosted the successive civilizations of Dalamatians, Nodites, Adamites, and Andites. The genetic and cultural contributions of these populations, particularly the Andites, profoundly influenced global civilization as they migrated throughout Asia and beyond, carrying with them the potential of modern civilization that eventually spread worldwide.

The narrative of Andite expansion from Mesopotamia and Turkestan followed multifarious routes over millennia, significantly influencing the racial composition and cultural development of India, China, and the Pacific islands. As increasing aridity affected central Asia around 8000 BC, Andites progressively abandoned their traditional territories for river valleys and coastlines, transitioning from hunting to commerce and urban life in settlements like Adonia. These migrations conveyed superior genetic traits and cultural advances that enhanced existing populations to varying degrees, though often gradually diluted through assimilation with more numerous indigenous peoples. The complex interplay between Andite immigrants and native populations explains much about the distinctive development trajectories of eastern civilizations, the varied success of cultural transmission, and the persistence of certain racial characteristics into modern times.

Asia is the homeland of the human race. It was on a southern peninsula of this continent that Andon and Fonta were born; in the highlands of what is now Afghanistan, their descendant Badonan founded a primitive center of culture that persisted for over one-half million years. Here at this eastern focus of the human race, the Sangik peoples differentiated from the Andonic stock, and Asia was their first home, their first hunting ground, their first battlefield. Southwestern Asia witnessed the successive civilizations of Dalamatians, Nodites, Adamites, and Andites, and from these regions, the potential of modern civilization spread to the world.

For over twenty-five thousand years, until nearly 2000 BC, the heart of Eurasia remained predominantly, though diminishingly, Andite in composition. From the lowlands of Turkestan, these populations executed their westward movement around inland lakes into Europe, while simultaneously from the highland regions they infiltrated eastward through mountainous passages to the northern territories inhabited by the yellow race. The Andite migration into India proceeded along dual routes: from the Turkestan highlands into the Punjab and from the Iranian grazing lands through Baluchistan. These earlier migrations represented a continuous drifting of Andite tribes rather than organized conquests, constituting a gradual demographic shift rather than military campaigns.

For almost fifteen thousand years, centers of mixed Andite culture persisted in the basin of the Tarim River in Sinkiang and in the highland regions of Tibet, where extensive mingling between Andites and Andonites occurred. The Tarim valley represented the easternmost outpost of authentic Andite culture, where they established settlements and developed trade relations with both the progressive Chinese to the east and the Andonites to the north. During this period, the Tarim region enjoyed considerable fertility with plentiful rainfall, while the adjacent Gobi existed as open grassland where herders were transitioning toward agriculture. This civilization, though eventually extinguished by shifting rain patterns, rivaled Mesopotamia in its zenith.

By 8000 BC, the progressively increasing aridity of central Asia's highland regions compelled the Andites to gravitate toward river valleys and coastlines. This escalating drought catalyzed a significant transformation in Andite civilization, giving rise to a new merchant class that emerged in substantial numbers. As climatic conditions rendered hunting untenable for migrating Andites, they diverged from the evolutionary trajectory of earlier races by developing commerce and urban life rather than adopting pastoralism. From Egypt through Mesopotamia and Turkestan to the river valleys of China and India, the more advanced tribes congregated in cities devoted to manufacturing and trade, with Adonia emerging as central Asia's commercial metropolis near present-day Ashkhabad.

India represents the only location on Urantia where all indigenous races amalgamated, with the Andite invasion contributing the final genetic element. In the highlands northwest of the subcontinent, the Sangik races originated, and representatives of each group subsequently penetrated India during their formative periods, creating the most heterogeneous racial mixture ever to exist on the planet. The peninsular base was formerly more constricted than in modern times, with the expansive deltas of the Ganges and Indus rivers developing primarily within the last fifty thousand years through gradual alluvial deposition.

The earliest racial amalgamation in India involved the intermingling of migrating red and yellow races with the aboriginal Andonites. This composite group later incorporated substantial elements of the extinct eastern green peoples and numerous members of the orange race, experiencing modest improvement through limited blue racial admixture while suffering considerably from assimilation of large indigo race populations. By approximately 20,000 BC, western India's population already exhibited Adamic genetic influence, yet throughout Urantia's history, no region combined so many disparate racial types. Unfortunately, secondary Sangik strains predominated in this genetic confluence, and the substantial absence of blue and red racial contributions significantly constrained what might have become an even more exceptional civilization, particularly as the pure Adamites and their immediate descendants showed minimal inclination to intermix with the darker-skinned peoples of India or elsewhere.

Around 15,000 BC, escalating population pressure throughout Turkestan and Iran precipitated the first substantial Andite migration into India. For over fifteen centuries, these superior peoples entered through the highlands of Baluchistan, disseminating throughout the Indus and Ganges valleys before gradually advancing southward into the Deccan. This Andite pressure from the northwest displaced many inferior southern and eastern populations into Burma and southern China, though insufficiently to prevent the eventual racial dilution of the invaders. India's failure to achieve Eurasian hegemony stemmed largely from topographical constraints, as northern population pressure merely compressed the majority southward into the diminishing territory of the Deccan peninsula, lacking adjacent territories for potential emigration that would have facilitated the displacement of inferior populations and fostered superior civilization.

The integration of Andite conquerors with the indigenous population of India eventually produced the mixed people known as Dravidians. The earlier and purer Dravidians possessed a remarkable capacity for cultural achievement, which gradually diminished as their Andite genetic inheritance became progressively attenuated. This dilution ultimately undermined India's nascent civilization approximately twelve thousand years ago, though even the minimal infusion of Adamic bloodlines catalyzed extraordinary acceleration in social development, producing the most versatile civilization then existing on the planet.

Shortly after conquering India, the Dravidian Andites lost their racial and cultural connections with Mesopotamia, though the subsequent establishment of maritime routes and caravan paths restored these associations. At no point during the past ten thousand years has India been entirely isolated from Mesopotamia in the west and China in the east, although mountainous barriers significantly favored western intercourse. The superior culture and religious inclinations of India's peoples originated in the early Dravidian period, partly resulting from the significant presence of Sethite priesthood members who entered during both the earlier Andite and later Aryan invasions. The thread of monotheistic thought running through India's religious history derives directly from Adamite teachings in the second garden.

Around 16,000 BC, a contingent of one hundred Sethite priests entered India and nearly achieved religious conquest of the western half of this heterogeneous population. However, their religious system failed to endure, and within five thousand years, their doctrines concerning the Paradise Trinity had degenerated into the triune symbol of the fire god. For more than seven thousand years, until the conclusion of Andite migrations, India's religious status significantly surpassed global standards, showing promise of developing the preeminent cultural, religious, philosophical, and commercial civilization, a potential that remained unrealized due to the complete submergence of Andites among the southern populations.

The second major Andite penetration of India manifested as the Aryan invasion, occurring over approximately five hundred years during the middle of the third millennium BC. This migration marked the terminal exodus of Andites from their Turkestan homelands, though they never achieved complete conquest of the subcontinent. The invaders' failure to fully subjugate the region, coupled with their numerical disadvantage, ultimately rendered them vulnerable to absorption by the Dravidians of the south, who subsequently expanded throughout the entire peninsula except for the Himalayan provinces.

The Aryans exerted minimal racial influence on India except in the northern provinces, with their impact on the Deccan being predominantly cultural and religious rather than genetic. The persistence of nominal Aryan bloodlines in northern India resulted not only from their greater initial concentration in these regions but also from subsequent reinforcement through later conquerors, traders, and missionaries. Until the first century BC, continuous Aryan genetic influx enriched the Punjab, with the final significant infusion occurring during the Hellenistic campaigns. On the Gangetic plain, Aryan and Dravidian elements gradually merged to produce a sophisticated culture, further enhanced by contributions from northeastern China.

India witnessed the emergence of various social organizations throughout its history, ranging from the semi-democratic systems of the Aryans to despotic and monarchical forms of government. However, the most distinctive feature of Indian society became the persistence of rigid social castes instituted by the Aryans to preserve racial identity. The elaborate caste structure has endured into modern times, with all except the highest caste established in futile attempts to prevent racial amalgamation with inferior subjects. The premier caste of teacher-priests, the Brahmans, derives from the Sethites, with twentieth-century AD Brahmans representing the direct cultural descendants of the second garden priests, though their teachings diverge substantially from those of their illustrious predecessors.

While India's historical narrative centers on Andite conquest and eventual submergence by older evolutionary peoples, eastern Asia's story primarily concerns the original Sangik races, particularly the red and yellow peoples. These two races largely escaped the admixture with degraded Neanderthal strains that significantly hindered blue man development in Europe, thereby preserving the superior potential of the primary Sangik type. Eastern Eurasia's Neanderthal populations contained higher proportions of debased animal strains, pushed southward by the fifth glacier, which simultaneously blocked Sangik migration into eastern Asia for an extended period.

When the red man eventually navigated northeast around the highlands of India, he discovered northeastern Asia largely free from subhuman populations. The red race established tribal organization earlier than any other peoples and became the first to migrate from the central Asian focus of Sangik development. The inferior Neanderthal strains were either annihilated or expelled from the mainland by the later-arriving yellow tribes, allowing the red man to reign supreme in eastern Asia for nearly one hundred thousand years before the arrival of yellow populations. More than three hundred thousand years ago, the main contingent of the yellow race entered China from the south as coastal migrants, gradually penetrating farther inland over successive millennia, though they did not encounter their migrating Tibetan relatives until relatively recent times.

Growing population pressure eventually compelled the northward-moving yellow race to encroach upon the red man's hunting territories, initiating a protracted struggle for the fertile lands of far eastern Asia. This racial antagonism culminated in over two hundred thousand years of bitter warfare between these superior races. Initially, the red men achieved considerable success with devastating raids on yellow settlements, but the yellow man demonstrated remarkable adaptability in martial arts and manifested exceptional talent for peaceful coexistence with compatriots. The Chinese early recognition that collective strength derives from unity provided a decisive advantage, while the red tribes continued self-defeating internecine conflicts. One hundred thousand years ago, decimated red tribes retreated before the advancing ice of the final glacier, eventually abandoning Asia for North America when the Bering land bridge became passable.

After successfully displacing the red man to North America, the expanding Chinese cleared the Andonites from eastern Asia's river valleys, driving them northward into Siberia and westward into Turkestan, where they soon encountered the superior Andite culture. In Burma and Indo-China, the cultural traditions of India and China intersected and merged, preserving in these regions the largest concentration of the vanished green race found anywhere globally. The Japanese ancestors remained on the mainland until approximately 12,000 BC, when a powerful southward coastal expansion of northern Chinese tribes finally dislodged them, a migration attributed to the leadership of a chieftain eventually venerated as divine.

Like the peoples of India and the Levant, victorious yellow race tribes established their earliest settlements along coastlines and river valleys, though these lowland communities later suffered from increasing floods and shifting river courses that rendered many locations uninhabitable. Twenty thousand years ago, Chinese ancestors had constructed approximately twelve substantial centers of primitive culture and learning, particularly along the Yellow River and Yangtze. These centers subsequently received reinforcement through a steady influx of superior blended peoples from Sinkiang and Tibet, introducing a measure of Andite blood to the river settlements, albeit less extensively than in the northern regions where the Tibetan centers exhibited less advancement than those in the Tarim basin.

The ancient yellow race derived its superiority from four principal factors: genetic advantages, social cohesion, spiritual advancement, and geographic protection. Unlike their blue relatives in Europe, both red and yellow races largely avoided mixture with degraded human stocks. The northern Chinese, already enhanced by modest infusions of superior red and Andonic strains, subsequently benefited from significant Andite genetic contributions. The yellow race early recognized the value of internal peace, contributing to population growth and cultural dissemination among millions. From 25,000 to 5000 BC, the most advanced mass civilization on Urantia flourished in central and northern China, as the yellow man achieved unprecedented racial solidarity and established the first large-scale cultural, social, and political civilization on the planet.

Approximately fifteen thousand years ago, significant numbers of Andites traversed the Ti Tao pass and disseminated throughout the upper Yellow River valley, infiltrating Chinese settlements in Kansu. Subsequently, they penetrated eastward to Honan, where the most progressive communities were situated. The cultural centers along the Yellow River had consistently demonstrated greater advancement than the southern Yangtze settlements, an advantage that persisted following the Andite arrival. Within several thousand years after the arrival of even modest numbers of these superior individuals, the Yellow River settlements had surpassed the Yangtze villages and maintained this advantage indefinitely.

The Andite influence derived not from numerical superiority or overwhelming cultural advancement, but from how their assimilation produced a more versatile genetic foundation. The northern Chinese received sufficient Andite genetic material to modestly stimulate their inherently capable minds without inducing the restless, exploratory curiosity characteristic of northern white races. This limited Andite inheritance caused less disruption to the innate stability of the Sangik type while still conferring significant benefits. Later waves of Andite migration imported certain cultural advancements from Mesopotamia, particularly improving economic and educational practices among the northern Chinese populations, though their influence on religious culture proved relatively transitory despite later descendants contributing to subsequent spiritual awakening.

The Chinese population did not commence urban development and manufacturing activities until after 10,000 BC, following climatic shifts in Turkestan and the arrival of later Andite immigrants. This new genetic infusion contributed less to yellow race civilization than it stimulated the rapid development of latent tendencies in superior Chinese stocks. From Honan to Shensi, the potential for advanced civilization began to materialize, with metalworking and various manufacturing arts dating from this period. The similarities observed between certain early Chinese and Mesopotamian methods of time calculation, astronomy, and governmental administration resulted from commercial relationships between these geographically distant centers, as Chinese merchants traversed overland routes through Turkestan to Mesopotamia even during the Sumerian period, creating a mutually beneficial exchange of cultural knowledge and practices.

While the red race suffered from excessive warfare, the development of Chinese statehood was paradoxically delayed by the thoroughness of their conquest of Asia. They possessed remarkable potential for racial solidarity that failed to fully actualize because they lacked the continuous external threat necessary to drive national cohesion. With the completion of eastern Asia's conquest, the ancient military state gradually dissolved as historical conflicts faded from collective memory. The Chinese quickly transitioned to agricultural pursuits, further reinforcing their pacific tendencies, while maintaining a population density well below the agricultural carrying capacity of the land.

Consciousness of past achievements, albeit somewhat diminished in later eras, combined with the conservatism of a predominantly agricultural society and well-developed family structures to generate ancestor veneration, eventually approaching worship. This attitude paralleled similar developments among European white races during the five centuries following the disintegration of Greco-Roman civilization. Belief in and veneration of the "One Truth" as taught by Singlangton never completely disappeared; however, as centuries passed, the pursuit of new and higher truth became increasingly overshadowed by the tendency to revere established knowledge and tradition, explaining the stagnation of what had previously been the world's most rapidly progressing civilization.

Between 4000 and 500 BC, the political reunification of the yellow race was accomplished, though cultural unification between the Yangtze and Yellow River centers had already occurred. This political consolidation of later tribal groups encountered some conflict, but societal attitudes toward warfare remained minimal due to ancestor worship, increasing linguistic diversification, and the absence of military necessity for thousands of years, rendering the population extraordinarily peaceful. Despite failing to fulfill the promise of early statehood development, the yellow race progressively advanced in civilizational arts, particularly in agriculture and horticulture. The complex hydraulic challenges confronting agriculturists in Shensi and Honan necessitated group cooperation, contributing significantly to interdependence and peaceful relations among farming communities.