drought

• caused highland tribes to invade Euphrates valley

78:8.3The peace­ful grain grow­ers of the Eu­phrates and Tigris val­leys had long been ha­rassed by the raids of the bar­bar­ians of Tur­kes­tan and the Ira­nian pla­teau. But now a con­certed in­va­sion of the Eu­phrates val­ley was brought about by the in­creas­ing drought of the high­land pas­tures. And this in­va­sion was all the more se­ri­ous be­cause these sur­round­ing herds­men and hunters pos­sessed large num­bers of tamed horses. It was the pos­ses­sion of horses which gave them a tremen­dous mil­i­tary ad­van­tage over their rich neigh­bors to the south. In a short time they over­ran all Mes­o­po­ta­mia, driv­ing forth the last waves of cul­ture which spread out over all of Eu­rope, west­ern Asia, and north­ern Africa.

• drove Andites to Egypt

79:1.2For al­most fif­teen thou­sand years cen­ters of mixed And­ite cul­ture per­sisted in the basin of the Tarim River in Sinkiang and to the south in the high­land re­gions of Ti­bet, where the And­ites and An­don­ites had ex­ten­sively min­gled. The Tarim val­ley was the east­ern­most out­post of the true And­ite cul­ture. Here they built their set­tle­ments and en­tered into trade re­la­tions with the pro­gres­sive Chi­nese to the east and with the An­don­ites to the north. In those days the Tarim re­gion was a fer­tile land; the rain­fall was plen­ti­ful. To the east the Gobi was an open grass­land where the herders were grad­u­ally turn­ing to agri­cul­ture. This civ­i­liza­tion per­ished when the rain winds shifted to the south­east, but in its day it ri­valed Mes­o­po­ta­mia it­self.

• caused Andite exodus from Caspian region

79:1.3By 8000 B.C. the slowly in­creas­ing arid­ity of the high­land re­gions of cen­tral Asia be­gan to drive the And­ites to the river bot­toms and the seashores. This in­creas­ing drought not only drove them to the val­leys of the Nile, Eu­phrates, In­dus, and Yel­low rivers, but it pro­duced a new de­vel­op­ment in And­ite civ­i­liza­tion. A new class of men, the traders, be­gan to ap­pear in large num­bers.

79:1.4When cli­matic con­di­tions made hunt­ing un­prof­itable for the mi­grat­ing And­ites, they did not fol­low the evo­lu­tion­ary course of the older races by be­com­ing herders. Com­merce and ur­ban life made their ap­pear­ance. From Egypt through Mes­o­po­ta­mia and Tur­kes­tan to the rivers of China and In­dia, the more highly civ­i­lized tribes be­gan to as­sem­ble in cities de­voted to man­u­fac­ture and trade. Ado­nia be­came the cen­tral Asian com­mer­cial metropo­lis, be­ing lo­cated near the pres­ent city of Ashkhabad. Com­merce in stone, metal, wood, and pot­tery was ac­cel­er­ated on both land and wa­ter.

79:1.5But ever-in­creas­ing drought grad­u­ally brought about the great And­ite ex­o­dus from the lands south and east of the Caspian Sea. The tide of mi­gra­tion be­gan to veer from north­ward to south­ward, and the Baby­lo­nian cav­al­ry­men be­gan to push into Mes­o­po­ta­mia.

79:1.6In­creas­ing arid­ity in cen­tral Asia fur­ther op­er­ated to re­duce pop­u­la­tion and to ren­der these peo­ple less war­like; and when the di­min­ish­ing rain­fall to the north forced the no­madic An­don­ites south­ward, there was a tremen­dous ex­o­dus of And­ites from Tur­kes­tan. This is the ter­mi­nal move­ment of the so-called Aryans into the Lev­ant and In­dia. It cul­mi­nated that long dis­per­sal of the mixed de­scen­dants of Adam dur­ing which ev­ery Asi­atic and most of the is­land peo­ples of the Pa­cific were to some ex­tent im­proved by these su­pe­rior races.

• disrupted Sahara civilization

80:1.4But dur­ing ear­lier times there was lit­tle to hin­der the west­ward mi­gra­tion of the Adamites. The Sa­hara was an open graz­ing land over­spread by herders and agri­cul­tur­ists. These Sa­ha­rans never en­gaged in man­u­fac­ture, nor were they city builders. They were an in­digo-black group which car­ried ex­ten­sive strains of the ex­tinct green and or­ange races. But they re­ceived a very lim­ited amount of the vi­o­let in­her­i­tance be­fore the up­thrust of land and the shift­ing wa­ter-laden winds dis­persed the rem­nants of this pros­per­ous and peace­ful civ­i­liza­tion.

• disrupted Sahara civilization

80:2.1The early ex­pan­sion of the vi­o­let race into Eu­rope was cut short by cer­tain rather sud­den cli­matic and ge­o­logic changes. With the re­treat of the north­ern ice fields the wa­ter-laden winds from the west shifted to the north, grad­u­ally turn­ing the great open pas­ture re­gions of Sa­hara into a bar­ren desert. This drought dis­persed the smaller-statured brunets, dark-eyed but long-headed dwellers of the great Sa­hara pla­teau.

• drove Andonites from Asia to Europe

80:9.6For al­most twenty thou­sand years the An­don­ites had been pushed far­ther and far­ther to the north of cen­tral Asia by the And­ites. By 3000 B.C. in­creas­ing arid­ity was driv­ing these An­don­ites back into Tur­kes­tan. This An­don­ite push south­ward con­tin­ued for over a thou­sand years and, split­ting around the Caspian and Black seas, pen­e­trated Eu­rope by way of both the Balkans and the Ukraine. This in­va­sion in­cluded the re­main­ing groups of Adam­son’s de­scen­dants and, dur­ing the lat­ter half of the in­va­sion pe­riod, car­ried with it con­sid­er­able num­bers of the Ira­nian And­ites as well as many of the de­scen­dants of the Sethite priests.

• severe d. meant death to early agriculturists

90:2.6Though of an­cient ori­gin, the rain mak­ers, or weather shamans, have per­sisted right on down through the ages. A se­vere drought meant death to the early agri­cul­tur­ists; weather con­trol was the ob­ject of much an­cient magic. Civ­i­lized man still makes the weather the com­mon topic of con­ver­sa­tion. The olden peo­ples all be­lieved in the power of the shaman as a rain maker, but it was cus­tom­ary to kill him when he failed, un­less he could of­fer a plau­si­ble ex­cuse to ac­count for the fail­ure.