Paper 79 Overview: Andite Expansion in the Orient

Asia is the homeland of the human race, where Andon and Fonta were born and where the Sangik peoples came from the Andonic stock. Many civilizations developed in southwestern Asia, including the Dalamatians, Nodites, Adamites, and Andites, which later spread to influence modern civilization.

For over twenty-five thousand years, the heart of Eurasia was home to the Andites, who made their way into Europe, Tibet, India, and China. As drought increased in central Asia, the Andites moved to river valleys and coastlines, becoming traders instead of hunters or herders, and eventually spreading their culture throughout the region.

Asia is where the human race began when Andon and Fonta were born in a southern peninsula of the continent. Their descendant Badonan created a primitive culture center in what is now Afghanistan that lasted for over half a million years. This eastern focus of humanity is where the Sangik peoples became different from the Andonic stock.

Southwestern Asia saw several important civilizations develop, including the Dalamatians, Nodites, Adamites, and Andites. From these regions, the foundations of modern civilization spread to the rest of the world, shaping human history and progress.

For more than twenty-five thousand years until about 2000 BC, the Andites were the main population of central Eurasia. They moved westward around inland lakes into Europe, and from the highlands they moved east through the mountains to reach northern China. The Andites also went into India from Turkestan and Iranian grazing lands.

For nearly fifteen thousand years, centers of mixed Andite culture existed in the Tarim River basin in Sinkiang and in Tibet. Increasing drought around 8000 BC drove the Andites to river bottoms and seashores, creating a new merchant class. Eventually, most Andites left the region due to continuing drought, heading south and creating the so-called Aryan migration to India and the Levant.

India is the only place on Urantia where all races blended, with the Andite invasion adding the last group. In the highlands northwest of India, the Sangik races first emerged, and members of each race entered India in their early days. The base of the peninsula was narrower in ancient times, with the deltas of the Ganges and Indus forming over the last fifty thousand years.

Around 15,000 BC, increasing population in Turkestan and Iran caused the first major Andite movement into India. For over fifteen centuries, these superior peoples poured into India through Baluchistan, spreading through the Indus and Ganges valleys. By 10,000 BC, the Andites had been absorbed by the local populations, but they had greatly improved the genetic makeup of the people.

When the Andite conquerors mixed with the native people of India, they created the mixed group called Dravidians. The early and purer Dravidians had great potential for cultural achievement, which was weakened as their Andite heritage became diluted. Even the small amount of Adam's bloodline greatly improved social development.

The superior culture and religious tendencies of India's peoples came from the early Dravidian period, partly because many Sethite priests entered India during both earlier Andite and later Aryan invasions. Around 16,000 BC, one hundred Sethite priests nearly achieved religious conquest of western India, but their teachings about the Paradise Trinity eventually changed into the symbol of the fire god.

The second Andite movement into India was the Aryan invasion, which took place over about five hundred years in the middle of the third millennium BC. This migration marked the final exodus of the Andites from their homelands in Turkestan, although they never fully conquered India.

The Aryans made little racial impact on India except in the northern provinces. In the Deccan, their influence was cultural and religious rather than racial. The greatest lasting effect was the establishment of social castes, which the Aryans created to prevent racial mixing. The highest caste, the teacher-priests called Brahmans, came from the Sethites, and they are the cultural descendants of the priests of the second garden.

While India's story is about Andite conquest and eventual absorption by older evolutionary peoples, eastern Asia's story is mainly about the primary Sangiks, especially the red and yellow races. These two races largely avoided mixing with the inferior Neanderthal strain that held back the blue man in Europe, preserving their superior potential.

The red man moved northeast around India to find eastern Asia free from subhuman types. They ruled eastern Asia for almost one hundred thousand years before the yellow tribes arrived. Over time, the yellow race pushed northward into the hunting grounds of the red man, leading to a 200,000-year struggle. Eventually, the red man was pushed out of Asia into North America, while the yellow man, strengthened by mixing with some red and Andite strains, became dominant in China.

After driving the red man to North America, the expanding Chinese cleared the Andonites from eastern Asia's river valleys. In Burma and Indo-China, the cultures of India and China mixed, and the vanished green race survived here in larger numbers than anywhere else in the world. The ancestors of the Japanese weren't forced off the mainland until 12,000 BC.

Twenty thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Chinese had built up a dozen strong centers of primitive culture along the Yellow River and the Yangtze. These centers were reinforced by blended peoples arriving from Sinkiang and Tibet, bringing some Andite blood eastward. The superiority of the ancient yellow race came from four main factors: genetic advantages, social cooperation, spiritual foundations, and geographic protection by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

About fifteen thousand years ago, the Andites began crossing the pass of Ti Tao and spreading into the upper valley of the Yellow River. Soon they moved eastward to Honan, where the most advanced settlements were located. The northern centers along the Yellow River had always been more progressive than southern settlements on the Yangtze.

It wasn't that there were many Andites or that their culture was far superior, but mixing with them created a more versatile people. Later waves of Andite migrants brought some cultural advances from Mesopotamia, improving economic and educational practices of northern Chinese. After 10,000 BC, following climate changes in Turkestan and the arrival of more Andite immigrants, the Chinese began building cities and developing manufacturing skills.

While the red man suffered from too much warfare, the Chinese development of statehood was delayed by how thoroughly they conquered Asia. They had great potential for racial unity, but this didn't fully develop because they lacked the continuing threat of outside invasion that would have united them.

After completing their conquest of eastern Asia, the ancient military state gradually broke apart as past wars were forgotten. The Chinese turned to farming, which made them more peaceful. Over time, their focus shifted from seeking new truth to preserving what was already established, causing what had been the world's fastest-growing civilization to stagnate. Despite this, Chinese civilization has persisted for forty thousand years, presenting an almost unbroken picture of continual progress down to modern times.