Those Crazy Indo-Europeans

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I've been brushing up on my ancient history for work on Euphemism and found this little bit interesting/amusing:

Another serious mistake committed by historians who were born inthe comfortable sense of European superiority over backward Asiatics has been to assert that the Indo-Europeans had remarkable capacities for civilization and, wherever they went, impelled a great advance. The truth of the matter is that, wherever we first meet Indo-European peoples in history, they were barbarians; and their invasions often produced a serious decline in the civilizations they encountered-- A History of the Ancient World, Chester G. Starr

~ Connor