The common image of the Proto-Indo-Europeans is of a pastoral people constantly wandering in search of greener pastures, both literally and figuratively. They destroyed whoever got in their way, for they were a race of warriors.
They killed the men and forcibly married the women.
Were the Proto-Indo-Europeans warriors? Certainly. Rather, they had warriors. All the ancient societies did. This was not limited to wandering tribes; look at the settled Romans or Irish.
No ancient society could survive without warriors; those were violent times. Were they nomads? Although what we can reconstruct of Proto-Indo-European culture and language contains an emphasis on herding, and even though the Proto-Indo-Europeans had enough wanderlust to start their long treks from the homeland, they weren’t nomads, at least not of a pure kind.
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Deep ancestors - Ceisiwir Serith - Chapter two
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