[Alternative History] Proto-Indo-Europeans fail

[Tomenable]

Assume that the PIEs failed to expand outside of the Steppe, and they got extinct or marginalized.

"Old Europe" (Mid-Neolithic civilization) survives, other parts of the world are also not affected by PIEs.

How would the world have looked like today in such a scenario, especially the European continent?

 

[bicicleur 2]

Old Europe failed and IE survived.
That is why we know much more about IE then Old Europe people.
So impossible to know what world they would have created.

 

[Kisuan]

Well, for starters there would probably be more speakers of Vasonic languages (also Iberian). I also think Uralic languages would have spread deeper into Europe as well.

 

[Kisuan]

I wonder if Afroasiatic languages would spread into Europe (like Phoenician colonies surviving, Carthaginians spreading further). India would probably have more Dravidian speakers. Hurrian, Elamite, Etruscan and other language isolates could also have descendants.

 

[Boreas]

In Y-dna case, the major haplogroup would be I instead of R

 

[Hauteville]

Sardinian-like people in most of Europe