>>110459214>>110453959Semites did exist 5000 years ago, Akkadian is a Semitic language, and we have thousands of tablets in Akkadian from 4000 to 5000 years ago
this is all rather new, from archeogenetics, but it looks like the "urheimat", the place of origin of afroasiatic Languages (be it egyptian/coptic, berber languages, or semitic languages), is the levant, what is now Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
Basically, discovering agriculture was the greatest advantage ever in terms of spreading your genes. agriculture was discovered in the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia.
The anatolian population of the northern branch of the fertile crescent, ended up replacing most of the native hunter gatherer population of europe, pioneer farmers replacing (and mixing, but with more replacing than mixing) the local huntergatherers of europe. europeos mostly speak indoeuropean languages not because of that, but because of a later expansion that happened from the steppes of russian from the population that originally had domesticated the horse. the second greatest advantage after discovering agriculture.
and the western branch of the farmers of the fertile crescent, from the levant, a population called "basal eurasians", probably the natufians, did the same, but with the hunter gatherers of Arabia and northern africa. that is why they all speak related languages (berber, coptic, arabic, hebrew, all belong to the same macrofamily)
