The Scythians proper are a nomadic people …
Years: 765BCE - 622BCE
The Scythians proper are a nomadic people originally of Iranian stock who migrated from Central Asia to southern Russia in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE.
Feared and admired for their prowess in war and, in particular, for their horsemanship, the Scythians founded a rich, powerful empire, centered on what is now the Crimea, that survived for several centuries before succumbing to the Sarmatians during the fourth century BCE to the second century CE.
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- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
