eli5: Who would be the indigenous peoples of Europe?
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The germans, slavic, italian, nordic and greek people never got displaced a lot, so they still are in most part indigenous.
On the british isles there were the viking invasions that displaced parts of the native population and the roman invasion that killed some. For the scottish the picts would be indigenous.
The europeans don’t have a special “Indigenous” population because most of them never got displaced from their home country, instead they slowly changed into the modern cultures they are and left their old cultural ways behind. For the many countries this happened with christianisation. Where their indigenous way of life got replaced with the culturally dominant christian faith, that brought many other customs along with it.
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