Homo neanderthalensis is the proper term. And we don’t know that they were “wiped out” or if they were simply out-competed or if they were (as seem more and more likely) absorbed to some extent into the European populations of H. sapiens.
And saying that their existence was “forgotten” is pretty meaningless. Everything before historical times was “forgotten”.
Actually, even according to the Bible they didn’t. They were commanded to, but let some people live.
Cite?
So there are Ammonites, Edomites, etc. around today?
Don’t forget those darn Amelekites!
The Turks did a pretty good job in western Anatolia IIRC.
While the Mongol invasions were traumatic and may have inflicted some permanent damage in the region of Khurasan in particular, I can’t think of any culture that went extinct as a direct result. Mongol massacres were generally of the coldly pragmatic sort - resist and get slaughtered ( locally, not en masse as a people ) or submit and get new masters. Under Genghis Khan unauthorized plundering of areas that had submitted was harshly punished ( one high-ranking general got busted down to a common trooper for just such an offense and died fighting on the front lines ).
As a result a number of cities were decimated or even briefly destroyed, with tremendous loss of life. But there was not any attempt to extirpate entire populations. The Mongols under GK didn’t practice genocide as a matter of policy - they practiced mass intimidation and were content with bloody examples.
No, often brutally oppressed and discriminated against, but not wholesale exterminated. Indeed elements of the Old Prussian nobility semi-assimilated as feudal nobles at the expense of the bulk of their people that were ( depending on the area ) often forced into a grinding serfdom.
There is a fairly decent book called The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen ( 1980, 1997, Penguin Books ) that goes into this in more detail.
Unlike the Armenian genocide ( incomplete per the OP’s definition ), that episode might be better defined as “ethnic cleansing.” The Greeks were mostly sent packing ( and a good number simply fled ahead of the Turkish armies before the “exchange,” like many Arabs during the first Arab-Israeli War ), rather than wholesale butchered and of course it was also reciprocal, though not balanced. Several hundred thousand Muslims were expelled from Greece at the same time ( most of them colloquially “Turks”, but most of those would have been descended from Greeks who converted rather than Turkish settlers ).
Oh and re: the Aztecs, probably not. The Aztec “empire” was a confederated league of city-states ( in which Tenochitlan increasingly was the dominant member ) with a large tribute network of involuntary client states. As such they don’t seem to have been cultural hegemons.
On the other hand the Inca state was much more of your standard centralized empire and does seem to have been quite aggressive about attempting to suppress conquered cultures.
Don’t try to equivolate it. The Turks were much more the assholes here than the Greeks/Byzantium and the Greek/Byzantium culture and people were pretty much gone from this area till this day. It fits the OP well.
Is ‘Turk’ a slur? I thought it was pretty neutral. If it is, I apologise.
The Yahi might quailify, though it’s the “deliberate and systematic” criteria that might a problem.
The movie The Last of His Tribe is about the last survivor of the Yahi.
Not trying to saying both sides were equally at fault, but both sides ratified the treaty and both sides were affected, though as I said many more Greeks were expelled from Turkey than vice versa..
It wasn’t a genocide IMHO - populations were expelled, not exterminated. Was it a disgraceful, awful episode in the history of humanity? Absolutely. Ethnic cleansing is an evil thing. But a slightly different, though related variant of evil relative to genocide.
Oh, not at all. I was just pointing out that in Greece many of the Muslims were referred to as “Turks,” but most of them were descended from Greeks who converted, as on Crete and were generally bilingual in Greek and Turkish.
The original intent wasn’t to wipe them out, but the Lucayans of the Bahamas were eradicated by the Spanish within 30 years of their discovery by Columbus by slave-raiding.
Another example in that general vein are the Guanches of the Canary Islands.