Until 2000 BC, central Eurasia
was predominantly Andite. The Andite centers of culture were located
in the then-fertile Tarim River valleys and in the highlands of Tibet.
Traders began to appear about 15,000 BC. Urban life, together with commerce
in stone, metal, wood, and pottery, began to flourish. Adonia, located
near the present-day city of Ashkhabad, became the Asian center of commerce.
Andites had been slowly filtering
northward into Europe for many centuries, but by 8000 BC the aridity
of the highlands began to drive them southward to the shores of the
Nile, Euphrates, Indus, and Yellow rivers. Extensive migrations beginning
in 15,000 BC brought Andites into India where all of the Urantia races,
mainly the secondary Sangiks, had blended. An infusion of Andite blood
resulted in a mixed people called the Dravidians, the most versatile
civilization of their time. The Dravidians were among the earliest people
to build cities. They engaged in extensive trade by land and sea, and
Dravidian commercial relationships greatly contributed to the further
diversification of their culture. Much of their religious life stemmed
from the teachings of Sethite priests who had entered India with the
early Andite and later Aryan invasions.
Diminishing rainfall to the
north drove the Andonites southward and forced the terminal exodus of
Andites from their Turkestan homelands into the Eastern hemisphere.
The final exodus of the Andites from Turkestan to India occurred around
2500 BC. These Aryan Andites greatly influenced culture and religion
throughout India, but made little racial impression in India except
in the north. The most characteristic feature of their society was an
elaborate caste system, formed to preserve their racial identity. Brahmans
of today are the cultural descendants of the Sethite teacher-priests.
China's story is primarily
of two Sangik races, the red and the yellow, both of which largely avoided
the Neanderthal race that had retarded the blue race of Europe. The
red man moved around the highlands of India into eastern Asia and ruled
there for almost one hundred thousand years.
About three hundred thousand
years ago, the yellow race entered China from the south and invaded
the hunting grounds of the red men. For over two hundred thousand years
these two races waged war. The yellow race assimilated much of the red
stock, and eventually the united strength of the yellow race drove the
red race-greatly weakened by a tendency to fight among themselves-out
of China into North America across the Bering land bridge. The North
American red men thereafter remained relatively isolated from the rest
of the world.
In China, the expanding yellow
race drove out the remaining Andonites. The strength of the yellow race
was due to four factors: they had largely escaped mixture with inferior
stocks; they valued peace among themselves; they had inherent spiritual
tendencies; and they were protected geographically by mountains to the
west and an ocean to the east.
Fifteen thousand years ago,
the migrating Andites had begun to spread over the upper valleys of
the Yellow River. The northern Chinese received enough of the Adamic
strain to stimulate their minds, but not enough to cause the restless
curiosity so characteristic of the white races. By 10,000 BC, the Chinese
were beginning to build cities and engage in manufacture. Similarities
between Chinese and Mesopotamian methods of time-reckoning, astronomy,
and government administration sprang from their commercial relationships.
The yellow race progressed in agriculture and horticulture, but the
cumbersome nature of their writing system limited the numbers of their
educated classes.
As time passed, the Chinese
search for new truth became overshadowed by tendency to venerate established
ideas. The stability of Chinese family groups helped conserve wealth,
property and experience, and promoted morality, ethics, and the efficient
education of children.