Most members of the White race are in some form or another traceable to the major wave of White peoples who entered Europe from approximately 5000 BC till around 500 BC (March 2003). In terms of White racial sub-groupings, these people were known as Nordic. Also referred to as Indo-Europeans, these individuals were originally found in the central and southern parts of Russia, near the Caucasus mountains. As such, Whites are still commonly referred to as Caucasians. Natural disaster in the form of flooding is thought to have prompted the first great waves of migration, and is responsible for Biblical legend of the flood. Leaving their Black Sea Basin heartland, the Nordic peoples invaded Europe and Asia. The three sons of Noah were Shem, Ham and Japheth. It is believed the Hamitic clans descended from Ham gave rise to the Aryans. Canaan was the exclusive homeland of the Hamitic clans, but the Ice Age forced the migration of the Aryans. According to Ninan (2003), Indo-Europeans entered Europe as ôthe first farmers of these wild areas. Each of these Hamitic clans became the progenitor of an Indo-European language and of the Aryan nations (Germans, Kelts, Slavs, and Balts),ö (4).
Nordic Indo-Europeans migrated to a variety of areas. In Europe the Celts, Germans, Balts and Slavs settled, while in the south Indo-Europeans settled in Egypt, the Middle East, India (Indo-Aryans), Afghanistan (Aryans), China (Tocharians), and Japan (Ainu). For a period of 6000 years, Nordic peoples would continue to invade western Europe, making northern Europe the new heartland of the Nordic peoples (March 2003). Larger and stronger than the inhabitants they encountered, the Nordic peoples also discovered the secret of iron working which is why they are often referred to as the ôbattle axe people,ö (March 2003, 2).
The main distinction between the Nordic Aryans of northern Europe and the west and those who migrated to other regions cen...