In this video we will talk about the most difficult scientific problem - the origin of the Slavs. We shall find out, who were the ancient Slavs, where was their ancestor, with what peoples Slavs were in the closest relationship. Let's understand in these questions without folk-history, Slavophobia and stories about the Slavic-Aryan Vedas, relying on the data of archeology, written sources, linguistics.
Who are Slavs? What is archaeological culture? How do they differ from each other? Which archaeological cultures are considered Slavic? How can linguistics help in the search for the ancestral home of the Slavs? How are ancient Slavs and Balts related? Which languages are closest to Slavic? How is the Migration period is related to the appearance of the Slavs?
00:00 What will we talk about?
00:49 Who are the Slavs?
02:18 Bronze Age Europe
03:20 Archaeological Cultures
04:55 Early Medieval Slavic Cultures
06:29 Prague Culture and the Archaeological Breakthrough
08:19 Politics and Science. How Historians Fulfilled Social Order
09:58 Danube homeland and anti-Germanism
11:18 How linguistics can help
14:01 Barbaric Europe at the Turn of the Era
15:53 the Zarubintsy culture
18:12 The appearance of the Slavs
19:12 Migrations of the Goths and the Chernyakhov culture
20:53 Invasion of the Huns
21:15 Crystallization of the early Slavic community
22:04 Summing Up
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