We are using the research of Dr. Nathaniel T. Jeanson to help us interpret biblical prophecy. Dr. Jeanson is the author of Traced: Human DNA’s Big Surprise. You can purchase a copy of his book on the Answers in Genesis website, and we highly recommend that you watch the video series on the book at their Youtube channel. We will be diligent about letting you know when information we are sharing in this study comes from another source and also when a conclusion is one of our own theories.
Our goal in this study is to show which y-haplogroups the ancient beast empires of Daniel and Revelation originally came from, where they are today, and what relevance this may have to the fulfillment of prophecy. We will be using the term “haplogroups” to mean “Y-haplogroups” for brevity, as we will not be discussing mitochondrial haplogroups at all. Y-haplogroups are only passed through the male line; therefore, when we refer to a people group being of a specific y-haplogroup, we mean all of the people that are genetically linked to the men of that y-haplogroup.
Movement of People after the Tower of Babel
Japheth
Dr. Jeanson believes that Haplogroup IJ are the descendants of Japheth and may have been the ancient Hittite Empire of modern-day Turkey. The first Hittite kingdom began sometime before 1750 BC and reached its height in the 1400s BC. The IJ haplogroup divided when some of the people moved on to modern-day Greece, becoming haplogroup I. These people were the original Europeans. Haplogroup J further divided around the time of the Bronze Age Collapse (1180 BC), when some moved into the Arabian peninsula and eventually formed the Arabian Empire (J1), and some migrated into modern-day Iran and formed the Median and Persian empires (J2).
From Scripture:
- The flood was in 2327 BC; Peleg was born in 2226 BC; Tower of Babel incident in 2221 BC; and Isaac blessed Jacob in 1812 BC.
From Traced:
- The I and J Haplogroups separated sometime between the 2200s BC and the 1800s BC.
From the history books:
- The Tiryns Culture of Greece was born 2200-2000 BC, and within a couple hundred years the Mycenean and Minoan civilizations began to flourish.
Our theory:
After the Tower of Babel, Japheth’s descendants (IJ), settled in Turkey and formed the Hittite Empire (J), and some moved on to Europe (I). The Europeans further divided into I1 and I2.
Haplogroup I1 migrated to modern-day Scandinavia and centuries later some of them returned as the Germanic Tribes. Some moved directly into modern-day Great Britain but most began in the East and migrated west ahead of the Huns who were advancing from Asia.
The Scandinavian’s who remained in the north, eventually became the Vikings and colonized parts of Great Britain, as well as both Western and Eastern Europe.
Haplogroup I2 remained mostly in Southern Europe and became the Greek and Roman Empires. The Celtic Tribes were also originally I2, however, over the millennia to follow they would become a melting pot of many different peoples.
From the history books:
- The Late Bronze Age Collapse was around 1180 BC. Around a hundred years later, the Medes appeared in the northwestern part of Iran. In the 700s BC, they coalesced into a united kingdom and by the 600s BC the Median Empire covered most of Iran.
From Traced:
- The J haplogroup split between the 1200s BC and the 700s BC. One group went to Iran and mutated into the J2 haplogroup, and the other migrated to the Arabian peninsula and became J1.
From scripture:
- The Israelites were in the mid-Judges period during the 1200s BC.
- In 744 BC, Assyria began their siege against Israel and in 741 BC, Israel became captive in Assyria.
From International Society of Genetic Genealogy Wiki:
- The Islamic prophet, Mohammed of the Hashemites, was haplogroup J1.
Our Theory:
- The tradition that Mohammed was a descendent of Ishmael is nothing more than a myth. Mohammed was not even a Semite, but rather a descendent of Japheth.
From the history books:
- In 539 BC, The Medo-Persian Empire conquered Babylon.
- In 330 BC, the Greek Empire, led by Alexander the Great conquered the Medo-Persian Empire, causing many of the J2 people to flee to Central Asia.
From Traced:
- J2 fled Babylon when the Greeks attacked and settled in Central Asia where they mingled with the G haplogroup, who were the original Turks. When the Turks began their invasions westward, centuries later, they brought the J2 people back to Turkey with them.
Summary:
- Haplogroup I2 were the original Celtic tribes, and the Greek and Roman Empires.
- Haplogroup I1 were the original Scandinavians (Vikings) and Germanic Tribes.
- Haplogroup J1 was the original Arabian (Islamic) Empire.
- Haplogroup J2 was the original Medo-Persian (Aryan) Empire.
- See our studies on Daniel’s Beasts and the Beasts of Revelation for more of our research on these empires.
Ham
None of the beast empires of scripture came from the line of Ham. However, because the three brothers’ offspring make up all of the men on earth today, we’ve included Ham’s DNA family tree so you can see where all of the known main haplogroup branches originated according to Dr. Jeanson’s research. With most of the branches accounted for, the options for Babylon and the Israelites are limited.
Shem
Dr. Jeanson believes that haplogroups L, T, N, O, K, S, M, Q and R are descendants of Shem. He has concluded that haplogroup T is very likely the lineage of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and that haplogroup L could be either the lost 10 tribes of Israel or the descendent of Esau (Edomites). We lean heavily towards believing L is the line of Ishmael (Abraham’s illegitimate son) and we will show why in the coming paragraphs. The other haplogroups that Dr. Jeanson has identified are:
- N: the Huns
- O1a: Early Australasians
- O1b: Southeast Asians
- O1b2: Early Korean and Japanese
- O2: Early Chinese
- K, S, & M: Early Papua New Guinean & Australian
Mainstream scientists have also identified a new haplogroup—P2, which is from the Pacific.
LT
From Traced:
- The LT haplogroup split between the 2200s BC and the 1900s BC.
- L has its highest concentration in South Asia and Afghanistan today, as well as Turkey and Armenia.
- T has its highest concentrations in Chad and Somalia; slightly less in Yemen, Iraq, and Egypt; a little less in Saudi Arabia; and scattered in smaller groups in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
- There is also a specially noted group in Zimbabwe called the Lemba.
From scripture:
- King Solomon died in 1012 BC and Judah and Israel became divided after that, which is almost a millennia too late for the haplogroup split.
- Jacob and Esau were born to Isaac in 1875 BC, which is just outside of the time frame the genetic mutations suggest, but still perhaps close enough.
- Ishmael was born to the Egyptian maid, Hagar, in 1988 BC, within the given time frame. This would make the Ishmaelites haplogroup L and the Israelites haplogroup T.
- When the apostles were making their travels and starting churches throughout modern-day Syria, Turkey, Greece, and Italy there were established Jewish communities in the cities they stopped in. This shows us that the Jews had already begun migrating away from Jerusalem before the diaspora officially began. This may also explain why the vast majority of those identifying as Jews today are from haplogroups R1a, R1b, J1, J2, and I, with only a very small fraction (about 2%) of them haplogroup T.
- At the beginning of 735 BC, YHWH smote Assyria for coming against Judah; and He reminded them through the prophet Isaiah that this was a sabbath year (2 Kings 19:29). YHWH reminded Judah of the sabbaths and jubilees years in 734 BC, a jubilee year. King Josiah discovered the book of the law in 651 BC.
- In 609 BC, Babylon conquered Judah and took their ruling class captive and in 539 BC, the Persian king allowed them to return home.
From the history books:
- After the Medo-Persian king allowed the Jews to return to Judah, many stayed in Iraq.
- During the control of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires, many Jews migrated down into Egypt and up into modern-day Syria, Turkey, Greece, and Italy. Then, when Rome kicked them out of Jerusalem in the mid- first century AD, the remainder scattered abroad as well.
- The Lemba people of southern Africa claim to be descended from the Jewish people. They have many religious practices and beliefs that resemble Judaism, however, they say that they lost the book long ago that describes their traditions. The term “Lemba” is Bantu for “respected foreigner” or “non-African”.
According to Rudo Mathivha, a Lemba of South Africa, some of their practices and beliefs include:
- Observation of Shabbat.
- They identify themselves as part of the chosen people.
- They teach their children to honour their mothers and fathers.
- They follow the dietary restrictions in Torah.
- They practice ritual animal slaughter and ritual preparation of meat for consumption.
- They practice male circumcision; something the surrounding Bantu tribes believed the Lemba had invented.
According to Wikipedia:
- “Their myths of origin state that their ancestors migrated from the North. According to Lemba tradition, their male ancestors were Jews who left Judea about 2500 years ago and settled in a place called Senna which was located on the Arabian Peninsula (present-day Yemen). Much later, according to Rudo Mathivha, their oral history states that their ancestors migrated into Northeast Africa (Ethiopia). After their ancestors married local women and became established in Africa, at some point, the tribe split into two groups, one group stayed in Ethiopia and the other group travelled farther south, along the east coast.”
- “In the late 20th century the British scholar, Tudor Parfitt, an expert on marginal Jewish groups, became involved in researching the Lemba’s claims. He helped trace the origin of their ancestors back to Senna, an ancient city which they believe was located on the Arabian Peninsula, in present-day Yemen. In an interview which was featured on NOVA in 2000, Parfitt said he was struck by the Lemba’s maintenance of rituals which seemed Jewish and/or Semitic.”
- “According to [Tudor] Parfitt, who published a book in 1993 on his findings, Senna was most likely located in Yemen, specifically, in the village of Sanaw which is located within the easternmost portion of the Hadhramaut. The city has been home to a Jewish population since ancient times. Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 , as well as since later wars, the Jewish community of Yemen has dwindled to a few hundred. In Lemba tradition, Senna has the semi-mythical status of being a sacred city of origin, and as a result, it is also the object of hopes for their eventual return.”
- “According to Magdel le Roux, the Lemba have a rite of sacrifice called the ‘Pesah’, which seems similar to the Jewish Pesach or Passover.”
- “More recently, Mendez et al. (2011) observed that a moderately high frequency of the studied Lemba samples carried Y-DNA Haplogroup T, which is also considered to be of Near Eastern origin.” The Lemba men who are haplogroup T exclusively belonged to the rare subtype T1b, which has been observed in low frequencies in Ashkenazi Jews as well as in a few Levantine populations.
Our theory:
- LT are the descendants of Abraham, who left Ur (Sumer) and moved to what is today the State of Israel. LT split in the descendants of Ishmael and Isaac around 2000 BC.
- The haplogroup of the original Israelites was T, however, when they left Egypt with Moses they were a mixed multitude (Exodus 12:38 And also a mixed multitude went up with them…). There were people of other haplogroups from Egypt who left with them. By the time Rome destroyed Jerusalem in AD 70, the remaining Jewish people were a blend of many different haplogroups from the people they encountered over the centuries.
- We believe the Lemba are the descendants of the original Israelites.
From scripture:
- Deuteronomy 28:64 And YHWH shall scatter you among all people, from one end of the earth even to the other, and you shall serve other gods there—wood and stone—which you have not known, nor your fathers.
- Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among nations, and shall draw out the sword after you, and your land shall become waste, and your cities shall be a desolation.
- Psalm 106:27 to make their seed also fall among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
- Jeremiah 9:16 I will also scatter them among the nations which they have not known, nor their fathers. And I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.
- Ezekiel 12:15 And they shall know that I am YHWH when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the lands.
- Ezekiel 20:23 And I lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, to scatter them among the nations and sow them among the lands
- Ezekiel 22:15 And I will scatter you among the nations, and sow you in the lands, and I will destroy your uncleanness out of you.
- 1 Kings 14:15 And YHWH shall strike Israel as the reed waves in the water, and shall pluck up Israel from off this good land that He gave to their fathers. And He shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their Asherim, provoking YHWH to anger.
- Nehemiah 1:8 I beseech You, remember the Word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, If you sin, I will scatter you among the peoples.
- Psalm 44:11 You have given us like sheep for food and have scattered us among the nations.
- Ezekiel 36:19 And I scattered them among the nations, and they were sown among the lands; I judged them by their way and by their doings.
- Deuteronomy 4:27 And YHWH shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations to which YHWH shall lead you away.
From eupedia.com:
- “Haplogroup T is one of the most widely dispersed paternal lineages in the world.”
- “In Europe, it makes up only 1% of the population on most of the continent…”
- “The maximal worldwide frequency for haplogroup T is observed in East Africa… and in the Middle East…where it accounts for approximately 5 to 15% of the male lineages.”
From The Tech Interactive :
- “The Y-DNA Haplogroup T is considered unusual because it’s both pretty rare and geographically widespread. Usually you just have one or the other.”
YHWH said the Israelites would be scattered and few in number and that is exactly what we see in haplogroup T. All of the haplogroups have become mixed up together and most are spread worldwide, but T is set apart from the rest in the degree of their scattering despite how few of them exist.
QR
From mainstream science:
- Scientists have recently discovered an ancient haplogroup P2 in men from the islands in the Pacific. This means that at some point in the distant past, haplogroup P had divided into P1 and P2 before P1 split into Q and R.
Our theory:
- We believe that haplogroup P1 are the Akkadians who stayed in the area of Sumer after the Tower of Babel. P2 migrated south-east to the Pacific Ocean and P1 stayed behind. P1 divided into Q and R during the Late Bronze Age Collapse, when Q moved north into east Asia and formed the Scythians, leaving R in Mesopotamia.
From Traced:
- Haplogroups Q and R split sometime between 1300 BC and the 700s BC.
- Haplogroup Q is the predominant haplogroup of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and originated in Central Asia with the original Scythian people.
- Q split when some of them travelled across the Bering Straight with some R1b people between the AD 300s and 600s.
From Traced:
- Dr. Jeanson also traced the R1 haplogroup to Central Asia and says that the R2 haplogroup may have been the Yuezhi migrants and the Kushan Kingdom in northern India.
- The R haplogroup split into R1 and R2 between the 800s BC and the 200s BC.
- The R2 people eventually settled in Central Asia and northern India.
- The R1 haplogroup divided into R1a and R1b sometime between the 300s BC and the AD 200s.
- R1a further subdivided between the AD 1200s and 1600s.
- R1b subdivided between the AD 100s and 900s, sending some R1bs to the New World with the Q haplogroup and others into Europe.
Summary
- Haplogroup T were the original twelve tribes of Israel.
- Haplogroup R1 were the Babylonians.
- See our studies on Daniel’s Beasts and the Beasts of Revelation for more of our research on the Babylonian empire.
Haplogroups of the European Monarchies
The majority of the royal houses of Europe are or were haplogroup R1, meaning they are genetically Babylonian. Rome is called Babylon in scripture, and this gives us another reason why. Please see our studies on the Revelation Beasts for more information on this connection.
House of Osman
The Ottoman Empire, which became the Roman Empire in AD 1453, identified as Turkish in origin; however, “Based on descendant testing, it appears most likely that the sultans of the Ottoman dynasty belonged to haplogroup R1a-Z93. This has not been officially confirmed yet. All sultans of the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) descend in patrilineal line from Osman I, making it one of the longest reigning Y-chromosomal lineage in history.” (From Eupedia.com)
House of Capet
The House of Bourbon is a branch of the House of Capet. Bourbon kings have ruled France, Navarre, Spain, Naples, Sicily, Parma, and Luxembourg. “Larmuseau et al. (2013) tested the Y-DNA of three living members of the House of Bourbon, one descending from Louis XIII of France via King Louis Philippe I, and two from Louis XIV via Philip V of Spain. They concluded that all three men share the same STR haplotype and belonged to haplogroup R1b-U106 (Z381* subclade).” Given the fact that “[a]ll kings of France [are] descended in patrilineal line from Robert the Strong (820-866), unless a non-paternity event happened some time before Louis XIII, it can be assumed that all kings of France belonged to the same R1b-Z381 lineage.” “The House of Bourbon also includes all the kings of Spain from Philip V (1683-1746) to this day with King Juan Carlos, all the kings of the Two Sicilies, the grand dukes of Luxembourg since 1964, and of course all the dukes of Orléans and the dukes of Bourbon.” (From Eupedia.com)
House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg is one of the most prominent dynasties in European history, producing kings of Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, and Galicia-Lodomeria; and emperors of Austria, Austria-Hungary, and the Holy Roman Empire.
“Based on the data from the Habsburg Family Project, there is a high likelihood that the haplogroup of the House of Habsburg was R1b-U152 > L2 > Z41150 > DF90 > FGC59564. The Habsburg originated in the eponymous village in northern Switzerland. They first became Kings of the Romans in 1273, obtained thenf Dukes of Austria from 1278, Kings of Spain from 1516, Kings of Hungary and Croatia from 1526… The Habsburgs provided all the Holy Roman Emperors but one from 1440 until the dissolution of the empire in 1806.” (From Eupedia.com)
House of Oldenburg
“The House of Oldenburg is a German dynasty with links to Denmark since the 15th century. It has branches that rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg. The current Queen of Denmark and King of Norway, the former King of Greece, the late prince consort of the United Kingdom, as well as the first ten persons (and fifteen of the first seventeen) in the line of succession to the British throne, are all patrilineal members of the Glucksburg branch of this house.
“The dynasty rose to prominence when Count Christian I of Oldenburg was elected as King of Denmark in 1448, of Norway in 1450 and of Sweden in 1457. The house has occupied the Danish throne ever since.” (From Wikipedia.com)
“Rogaev et al. (2009) tested the DNA of the presumed grave of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and all his five children, and compared them against archival blood specimens from Nicholas II as well as against samples from descendants of both paternal and maternal lineages. The results unequivocally confirmed that the grave was the one of the last Russian Royal family. Nicholas II belonged to Y-haplogroup R1b and mt-haplogroup T2. Consequently, all Russian emperors of the Romanov dynasty since Peter III (1728-1762) also belonged to haplogroup R1b. This paternal lineage ultimately descends from the House of Oldenburg, which includes all the Kings of Denmark since Christian I (reigned from 1448) as well as several Kings of Norway, Sweden and Greece, and the current heirs to the British throne (Prince Charles and his son Prince William).” (From Eupedia.com)
House of Wettin
“The lineage of the House of Wettin was identified as R1b-U106 > Z2265 > Z381 > Z156 > Z305 > Z307 > Z304 > DF98 > S18823 > S22069 > Y17440 > A6535 by the testing of two known descendants of the Wettin line by Brad Michael Little. The results confirmed that the two men, who share a common ancestor in Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, possess the same haplogroup and haplotype. Members of the House of Wettin include the Kings Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and George VI of the United Kingdom, all the Kings of the Belgians, the Kings of Portugal from 1853 to 1910, the Kings of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1946, several Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania, the Margraves of Meissen from 1075 to 1423, the Electors of Saxony from 1423 to 1806, the Kings of Saxony from 1806 to 1918, and the rulers of the numerous smaller Saxon duchies.”
House of Stuart
“According to the Stewart Stuart DNA Project, the House of Stuart, who ruled Scotland from 1371, then also England and Ireland from 1603 until 1707, belongs to R1b-L21 > DF13 > Z39589 > DF41/S524 > Z43690 > S775 > L746 > S781. The most prominent members were King Robert II of Scotland, King James I, Charles I, Charles II and James II of England & Ireland.” (From Eupedia.com)
House of Árpád
“The DNA of King Béla III of Hungary (c. 1148-1196) was tested by Olasz et al. (2018). His Y-DNA was identified as R1a (possibly the Z93 branch and Z2123>Y934 clade based on STR values, but unconfirmed), while his mtDNA was H1b. Béla was a member of the Árpád dynasty, which ruled over Hungary (and Croatia from 1091) from the arrival of the Magyars in the 9th century until 1301.” (From Eupedia.com)
House of Battenberg
“According to descendant research conducted by Brad Michael Little, the Reginarids’ lineage was identified as R1b-L21 > DF13 > FGC5494 > FGC5561 > A913 > A7607. The Reginarid dynasty includes the first Counts of Hainaut, all the Counts of Louvain & Brussels and the original Dukes of Brabant & Lothier, as well as the entire House of Hesse (Landgraves and Grand-Dukes) and by extension the Battenberg family (Lords Mountbatten).” (From Eupedia.com)
“The Mountbatten family is a British dynasty that originated as an English branch of the German princely Battenberg family. The name was adopted on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name to “Windsor”, by members of the Battenberg family residing in the United Kingdom, due to rising anti-German sentiment among the British public during World War I. The name is a direct Anglicisation of the German Battenberg, or Batten mountain, a small town in Hesse. The titles of count and later prince of Battenberg had been granted in the mid-19th century to a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, itself a cadet branch of the House of Hesse.
“The family includes the Marquesses of Milford Haven (and formerly the Marquesses of Carisbrooke), as well as the Earls Mountbatten of Burma. The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, adopted the surname of Mountbatten from his mother’s family in 1947, being a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg by patrilineal descent. Lady Louise Mountbatten became Queen Consort of Sweden, after having married Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.” (From Wikipedia.com)
House of Plantagenets
“While testing for paternal relatives of Richard III of England to confirm the identity of his presumed remains (see Haplogroup G2a), researchers found that three modern relatives with the surname Somerset and descended from House of Lancaster all belonged to haplogroup R1b-U152 (x L2, Z36, Z56, M160, M126 and Z192). Although this points to a non-paternity at some time in the Plantagenet lineage, it is likely that most if not all Dukes of Beaufort, and possibly most Plantagenets monarchs outside the House of York belonged to R1b-U152.” (From Eupedia.com)
House of Bernadotte
“The House of Bernadotte, which has been the royal house of Sweden since in 1818, and also of Norway between 1818 and 1905 belongs to R1b-DF27 > Z195 > Z272 > S450 > Z295 > S25783 > CTS4065 > S16864 > A5000 > FGC39239 according to the testing of a cousin of King Gustaf V. The dynasty was founded by Jean Bernadotte, a former marshal of Napoleon, who was elected the heir-presumptive to the childless King Charles XIII of Sweden, and became King Charles XIV John. Bernadotte was a native of Pau in Gascony, where this haplogroup is indeed common today.” (From Eupedia.com)
House of Piast
“The Piast dynasty was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. The first documented Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I (c. 930–992). The Piasts’ royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of king Casimir III the Great.
“Branches of the Piast dynasty continued to rule in the Duchy of Masovia and in the Duchies of Silesia until the last male Silesian Piast died in 1675. The Piasts intermarried with several noble lines of Europe, and possessed numerous titles, some within the Holy Roman Empire. The Jagiellonian kings after John I Albert were also descended in the female line from Casimir III’s daughter.” (From Wikipedia.com)
“Professor Tomasz Kozłowski tested the Y-DNA of Prince Janusz III of Masovia, Duke of Czersk, Warsaw, Liw, Zakroczym and Nur. He was a direct descendent of the Piast Dynasty, the first historical dynasty ruling over Poland, starting with Prince Mieszko I (c. 930–992) and ending in 1370 with the death of King Casimir III the Great. The Piast family continued to rule over the Duchy of Masovia until 1526 and the Duchy of Silesia until 1675. Prof. Kozłowski announced that the prince belonged to haplogroup R1b, and therefore probably also other members of that royal lineage, including all the Dukes of Masovia (1138-1526), as long as no non-paternity event took place.” (From Eupedia.com)
Scottish Clans
According to Eupedia.com, twenty-four out of the thirty-two chief lines of Scottish clans are from the R1 haplogroups. Twenty clans are R1b: MacGregor, Buchanan, MacPherson, MacBean, MacLaren, Cameron, Campbell, MacKenzie, MacLean, Drummond, Murray, Sutherland, Bruce, Boyle, Boyd, Erskine, Sinclair, Armstrong, Grant, and Gordon. Four clans are R1a: Home, Cochrane, MacDougall, and MacDonald.
Conclusion
Dr. Jeason does not speculate on where haplogroup R originated before they came to Central Asia. He explains that he needs to do more research before he can be certain and we respect that, he is a scientist after all. We, however, are not scientists so we can speculate using all of the information at our disposal.
First, we’ll start with a brief recap of history (also see our study The Kingdoms of the Ancient World). After the flood, Noah and his family eventually settled in the lowlands of Mesopotamia. They began to build cities and had a booming civilization, which mainstream historians call the Sumerians. They decided to build a tower at Babel and consequently, YHWH confused their languages and they began to migrate away to different lands. Shem and his offspring stayed primarily in the Middle East region; Ham and most of his offspring moved to northern Africa; and Japheth and his line settled in Asia Minor (Turkey).
We believe haplogroup P1 was the Akkadian Empire which formed after YHWH confused the languages and scattered the people away from Babel. P1 split into Q and R during the Late Bronze Age Collapse around 1180 BC, when Q migrated to Central Asia to become the Scythians and R stayed and built the Neo-Assyrian Empire. In 669 BC, King Esarhaddon (Assur-haddon) died and his sons divided the empire into the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires; after this, R split into R1 (Babylonian) and R2 (Assyrian).
The Median Empire conquered and crushed the Assyrian Empire in 609 BC, with the help of the Babylonians. We believe many of the R2 people fled the Middle East to form the Yuezhi migrants of Central Asia, who then migrated to northern India and built the Kushan Kingdom.
The Medo-Persian Empire conquered Babylon in 539 BC, which could have been the cause of a mass migration of R1 out of the Middle East into modern-day Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It is also possible that this migration occurred after 330 BC, when Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquered the Persian Empire. The R1 haplogroup mutated into R1a and R1b in Central Asia.
The R1a group eventually made there way to Eastern Europe and became the Slavic peoples. R1b formed the Kangju of Central Asia, and from there they mingled with the Turks and other people groups and eventually migrated west into Europe. They blended with the Celtic and Germanic tribes over the centuries, dominating Western Europe, and built massive overseas colonial empires. R1a and R1b made up the dominant ruling families of Europe for two millennia.
From a genetic standpoint, Babylon moved to Europe, reformed their empire, and took over the world!
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