"Quick" on a Huns parallel would be one generation. Two to three hundred years gives plenty of time for a by-stages advance with subtly different groups of people being left in different areas.
Which is entirely reasonable when people don't know where they're going (the only people who might tell you speak and unrelated language) and you're, collectively, interested mainly in spreading out so as many chieftan-level males can have as much territory as possible to set up as small wanax-es. Each generation's younger warriors keep moving forward with a subset of the PIE population until they hit the sea.
(PIE culture seems definitely to have been more male-centred, top-down-authority, siy-god oriented than what they replaced. It makes for a mindset suited for conquest.)
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Date: 2018-11-18 02:31 am (UTC)Which is entirely reasonable when people don't know where they're going (the only people who might tell you speak and unrelated language) and you're, collectively, interested mainly in spreading out so as many chieftan-level males can have as much territory as possible to set up as small wanax-es. Each generation's younger warriors keep moving forward with a subset of the PIE population until they hit the sea.
(PIE culture seems definitely to have been more male-centred, top-down-authority, siy-god oriented than what they replaced. It makes for a mindset suited for conquest.)