One of the tribes of the Aryans, the Celto-Germanic group (from which I am from), came from the Caucasus, between the Black and Aral Seas. They were there until about 750 BCE, leaving in masse to join Cimmerian settler groups in Northern Europe. Most Court Historians have it wrong when they postulate that the Celts and Germanics fought each other. They were brothers, within the same tribe, at this time, speaking the same language. They moved into Europe at the same time. They split up later, due as much to early Roman pressure upon them, as anything else.
What prompted them to move was three things.
1. Their growing population, outgrowing this region's ability to protect themesleves within the largely undefendable Caucasus.
2. The emergence of a military class amongst themselves.
3. Which class was grown by the return of their mercenaries that fought alongside the Persians in their war against Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire. Nineveh fell, and the Celto-Germanic mercenaries gained valuable insight into the middle eastern world. When they went back to the Caucasus they returned to inform their people of the growing power, and hunger, of the Babylonian (Iraqi) AND Persian Empire, and all the other major players in the cockpit of the world at the time, the middle east. The Celto-Germanics knew by this that the Semites and Persians would sooner or later turn their attention against the Celto-Germanic peoples in the nearby Caucasus. They, through scouts and settlers, knew of a land that was cold but unsettled, northern Europe. The area was consumed with swamps and bogs, but with enough work, and luck...
At the time they went by the name of "Cimmerians" or "Gomerians", also "Gimbri".
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