Paper 79 Overview: Andite Expansion in the Orient

Asia represents the birthplace of humanity, where Andon and Fonta originated and where their descendant Badonan established a primitive cultural center that endured for over half a million years. This eastern region of human development witnessed the differentiation of the Sangik peoples from Andonic stock and became home to successive civilizations of Dalamatians, Nodites, Adamites, and Andites. The genetic and cultural contributions of these groups, especially the Andites, would significantly shape global civilization as they migrated throughout Asia and beyond.

The Andite expansion from Mesopotamia and Turkestan followed multiple routes over thousands of years, influencing India, China, and the Pacific islands. As increasing drought affected central Asia around 8000 BC, Andites increasingly migrated to river valleys and coastlines, transitioning from hunting to commerce and urban life. These migrations carried superior cultural and genetic traits that enhanced existing populations, though the degree of influence varied by region and was often gradually diluted through assimilation with more numerous indigenous peoples. The story of these migrations explains much about the development of eastern civilizations and racial characteristics that persist into modern times.

Asia is the homeland of the human race, with Andon and Fonta being born on a southern peninsula of this continent. Their descendant Badonan established a primitive center of culture in what is now Afghanistan, which persisted for over half a million years. It was at this eastern focus of human development where the Sangik peoples differentiated from the Andonic stock, making Asia their first home, hunting ground, and battlefield.

Southwestern Asia witnessed the successive civilizations of Dalamatians, Nodites, Adamites, and Andites, whose cultural and genetic contributions were significant. From these regions, the potentials of modern civilization spread throughout the world, laying the foundation for human progress across the planet. The migrations and influence of these groups, particularly the Andites, shaped the course of human history through their cultural practices, genetic contributions, and adaptive capabilities.

For over twenty-five thousand years, continuing until nearly 2000 BC, the heart of Eurasia was predominantly Andite, though this presence diminished over time. These people moved westward around inland lakes into Europe, while from the highlands they infiltrated eastward through the mountains to the northern territories of the yellow race. The Andite migration into India proceeded from Turkestan highlands into the Punjab and from Iranian grazing lands through Baluchistan, representing a gradual drifting of tribes rather than military conquests.

For almost fifteen thousand years, centers of mixed Andite culture persisted in the Tarim River basin in Sinkiang and in the highland regions of Tibet, where extensive mingling between Andites and Andonites occurred. By 8000 BC, increasing aridity in central Asia drove the Andites toward river bottoms and seashores, leading to the development of a new merchant class. As drought conditions worsened, a significant exodus of Andites from the region occurred, culminating in the so-called Aryan migration into the Levant and India. This dispersal of Adam's mixed descendants improved to some extent most Asian and Pacific island peoples, though the Andites were almost entirely displaced from their central Asian homelands.

India stands as the only locality on Urantia where all races blended, with the Andite invasion contributing the final genetic element. The Sangik races originated in the highlands northwest of India, and members of each race penetrated the subcontinent in their early days, creating the most diverse racial mixture ever to exist on the planet. The peninsula's base was formerly narrower than today, with the deltas of the Ganges and Indus rivers developing over the last fifty thousand years.

Around 15,000 BC, increasing population pressure throughout Turkestan and Iran caused the first substantial Andite movement into India. For over fifteen centuries, these superior peoples entered through the highlands of Baluchistan, spreading throughout the Indus and Ganges valleys and slowly advancing southward into the Deccan. The failure of India to achieve dominance in Eurasia was largely due to its geography, as population pressure from the north pushed people southward into an increasingly confined territory. By 10,000 BC, the Andites had been largely submerged by the local populations, but their genetic contribution had significantly improved the inhabitants of the region.

The blending of Andite conquerors with the native population of India eventually produced the mixed people called Dravidians. The earlier and purer Dravidians possessed considerable capacity for cultural achievement, which gradually weakened as their Andite genetic inheritance became diluted. Even the small infusion of Adam's bloodline produced a remarkable acceleration in social development, creating the most versatile civilization then existing on earth.

Not long after conquering India, the Dravidian Andites lost their racial and cultural connections with Mesopotamia, though trade routes later reestablished these links. The superior culture and religious tendencies of India's peoples originated in the early Dravidian period, partly because many Sethite priests entered India during both the earlier Andite and later Aryan invasions. Around 16,000 BC, a group of one hundred Sethite priests entered India and nearly achieved religious conquest of the western half of the region, though their doctrine of the Paradise Trinity eventually degenerated into the symbol of the fire god.

The second significant Andite penetration of India was the Aryan invasion, occurring over approximately five hundred years in the middle of the third millennium BC. This migration marked the final exodus of the Andites from their Turkestan homelands, though they never completed the conquest of India. The invaders' failure to fully conquer the region eventually led to their genetic absorption by the more numerous Dravidians of the south, who later spread throughout the peninsula.

The Aryans made minimal racial impact on India except in the northern provinces, with their influence in the Deccan being primarily cultural and religious rather than genetic. On the Gangetic plain, Aryan and Dravidian eventually merged to produce a high culture, later enhanced by contributions from China. The most distinctive feature of Aryan society was the establishment of rigid social castes, created to preserve racial identity. These castes have persisted into modern times, with the highest caste—the teacher-priests or Brahmans—descending from the Sethites and representing the cultural continuation of the priests from the second garden.

While India's history centers on Andite conquest and eventual submergence by older evolutionary peoples, eastern Asia's story primarily involves the original Sangik races, particularly the red and yellow peoples. These two races largely escaped mixture with the degraded Neanderthal strain that hindered the blue man's development in Europe, thus preserving the superior potential of the primary Sangik type. The red man moved northeast around India to find eastern Asia free from subhuman types, establishing tribal organization earlier than other peoples.

More than three hundred thousand years ago, the main body of the yellow race entered China from the south as coastal migrants, gradually penetrating further inland. Growing population pressure caused the northward-moving yellow race to encroach on the hunting grounds of the red man, leading to centuries of conflict. The yellow race learned to live cooperatively with their compatriots while the red tribes continued internal conflicts, eventually suffering repeated defeats. One hundred thousand years ago, the diminished red tribes migrated to North America across the Bering land bridge, leaving genetic contributions that benefited the northern Chinese peoples.

After driving the red man to North America, the expanding Chinese cleared the Andonites from eastern Asia's river valleys, pushing them northward into Siberia and westward into Turkestan. In Burma and Indo-China, the cultures of India and China blended, and this region retained the largest proportion of the vanished green race. The Japanese were not forced from the mainland until 12,000 BC, displaced by a powerful southern-coastwise thrust of northern Chinese tribes.

Twenty thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Chinese had established a dozen strong centers of primitive culture along the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. These centers were gradually reinforced by superior blended peoples arriving from Sinkiang and Tibet, bringing some Andite genetic traits eastward. The superiority of the ancient yellow race stemmed from four primary factors: genetic strength from avoiding mixture with degraded stocks, social cohesion and internal peace, spiritual advancement from following Singlangton's teachings of the One Truth, and geographic protection by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

Approximately fifteen thousand years ago, Andites in considerable numbers began traversing the pass of Ti Tao and spreading throughout the upper valley of the Yellow River among Chinese settlements in Kansu. They gradually penetrated eastward to Honan, where the most progressive communities were located. The northern culture centers along the Yellow River had always been more advanced than the southern settlements on the Yangtze, an advantage that persisted after the arrival of the Andites.

The Andite influence was not based on their numbers or cultural superiority, but on how their intermixing with the Chinese created a more versatile population. Later waves of Andite migration brought certain cultural advances from Mesopotamia, improving economic and educational practices among the northern Chinese. After 10,000 BC, following climatic changes in Turkestan and the arrival of later Andite immigrants, the Chinese began building cities and engaging in manufacturing. Trade relationships between Chinese merchants and Mesopotamia fostered cultural exchange, though this commerce declined due to climate changes and nomadic invasions in the third millennium BC.

While the red man suffered from excessive warfare, the development of Chinese statehood was delayed by the thoroughness of their conquest of Asia. The Chinese possessed great potential for racial solidarity, but it failed to fully develop because they lacked the continuous external threat that would have provided ongoing motivation for unity. With the completion of their conquest of eastern Asia, the ancient military state gradually disintegrated as memories of past wars faded.

The transition to agricultural pursuits further enhanced the Chinese tendency toward peace, especially with a population well below the maximum sustainable density for agriculture. Consciousness of past achievements, agricultural conservatism, and well-developed family life led to ancestor veneration, which eventually bordered on worship. The search for new truth gradually became overshadowed by the preservation of established knowledge, explaining the stagnation of what had once been the world's most rapidly progressing civilization. Despite limitations, Chinese civilization persisted through forty thousand years of history, representing the nearest thing to an unbroken picture of continuous progress down to modern times.