Aborigines? You was wrong!

Описание: You always thought that the word "Aborigine" refers only to the indigenous people of Australia.
But what if everything you knew… was wrong?

In this episode, we reveal the true origin of the word “aborigine” — from ancient Latin “ab origine,” meaning “from the beginning.”
It turns out that being an aborigine has nothing to do with Australia in particular — it simply means being native to a place.
So, Native Americans are aborigines of America.
Siberian peoples are aborigines of Siberia.
And yes — Uzbeks are the aborigines of Tashkent.

And the first people who ever used the word "aborigines" lived… in Italy.

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