Guest Posted December 1, 2000 Report Share Posted December 1, 2000 Have any of you heard of the Hazara people of Afghanistan? Physically, they are a Mongoloid people; but linguistically, they a Farsi-speaking folk and they practice Shiism. How this come to be? Scholars still don't know? They are a settled and agricultural people and they do not live in yurts, which is not common for Turkic and Mongol peoples. They settle in a region of Afghanistan that was totally decimated by Genghis Khan's armies. But, scholars have ruled out the Hazara's assumed descent from Mongol soldiers. So, who are they? Some say that they could be descendants of Chinese soldiers and Buddhist pilgrims captured by the Arabs in the 750 A.D.s after the battle of Talas in modern-Uzbekistan. So, in this case, language does not necessarily imply a direct genetical descent of correlation. People can change or borrow other's languages without changing their genes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 1, 2000 Report Share Posted December 1, 2000 they themselves don't believe that they are Mongolian soldiers of Chingiz xan or they are Turkic. They claim they have been in Afghanistan and Xorasan region of Iran for at least 5000 years, a professor I've talked to beleved that they are decendants of Hunic people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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