2000 years ago did Middle Eastern people become the Europeans or were Europeans here before 2000 years ago?

Question

I have some Middle Eastern ancestors from 2000 years ago, would I have Middle Eastern DNA (I know not alot if I do) or did they become Europeans and the DNA changed?

Answer 1

Cro-Magnon, who are genetically identical to us today (H. sapiens), inhabited Europe from 40,000 years ago, until the Ice Age covered Europe with a glacier by about 12,000 years ago.

As the ice receded, about 10,000 years ago, Caucasians (formerly known as Cro-Magnon) surrounding the Mediterranean Basin, who had now mixed with Mid-Eastern & North African peoples, for at least 2,000 years, slowly crept back into Europe from the south!

Remember, that during this Ice Age, modern-day Spain was connected to modern-day Morocco, and modern-day Sicily, was connected to modern-day Tunisia. So not only was the Nile River Delta a genetic "melting pot" where fisherman thrived, but the ports surrounding this enormous basin, which included all of southern Europe, lent itself to a tremendous amount of genetic hybridization!

Answer 2

Replacement theory argues that Modern Humans originated in Africa and spread out from there, replacing other preexisting hominid populations.

If you accept that the first place they would have gone is the Middle East, then you answer is yes.

If as I think, you mean are modern European descended from modern Middle Easterners, I'd say not for most Europeans, although there has been historical population movements and interbreeding amongst those populations so that some some will have Middle Eastern ancestry .

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Answer 3

In reality your DNA has the roots to a million years old ancestral humans whose development is in your blood! Why still have the mind to differentiate zone wise?

Answer 4

well if you take into people from the cro magnon  region of france arouund 30-40,000 years ago i would say europeans predate middle easterners. furthermore europe was a more established culture with writing, megalithic architecture, etc. before the near east.

Answer 5

Middle Eastern and European DNA is pretty similar, you could easily come from one other the other. A DNA test would give a very vague answer on that one, unless you inherit a gene that's specific to the middle East.

Europeans moved up from the Black Sea area into Europe about 40/50,000 years ago, the Neanderthals were in residence so it was a slow process. By 25,000 years ago it was all Europeans. Also, North Africans of today hold a a majority of European haplotypes.

Europeans and people from the middle East are just really closely related, you find genes from the middle East in England, And European genes in the middle East. There were some DNA changes as Europeans moved away, but a lot of them made their way back as far as Morocco.

Answer 6

Before 2000 years ago.