LeBrok
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We know that IE were highly structured society with distinct ruling class, and powerful-unstoppable armies. You want to say that their leaders had only well being of their tribes in mind, and they never had bigger ambitions?1. Ideological reason, expansional reasons. We are talking of a different timeframe and two different cultural environments. Thats why I was specifically speaking about PIE not Indo Europeans at all.
The PIE expanded as herders and had therefore completely different reasons. While later big empires/cultures expanded as warriors/soldiers to conquer lands.
For example the Medes and Persians came as simple nomads in search for new land for their animals and farming. Just the aggressive expansions plans and oppressing of the Assyrians forced the Medes to unify the tribes into a tribal confederation and build an empire. They didn't came as conquerers but simply as herders searching for new grassland for their animals and horses.
Same can be said about Tocharians.
For the amount of IE tribes expanding West and East, led by many leaders, I'm pretty sure that their were few ambitious conquerors who only thought about their glory, battles, and riches of the world. There are many examples of such steppe peoples, among them Mongols under Chinggis Khan. Interesting example are Germanic tribes, who need to emigrate to South Europe, due to famine and wars, but it didn't stop them from conquering and building new empires.
What I'm saying is that human nature and warrior psyche didn't change much in few thousand years. There is no reason to imagine IEs as some different kind of people and their leaders as only peaceful and caring folks.