Even the ancient civilization that the Greek were puzzled about and wondering who came first, Egyptians or the Scythians (east of Greece, they occupied a huge territory, their capital being somewhere along a river in central Afghanistan). The legend of Amazons came from the 14 year old Scytian girls who would be someone you would not want to meet, riding on their pony they could throw battle axes 20-25 meters away accurately. Scytian considered children and teenagers equal to the adults and there certainly were no sexism amongst them. Sure their official ritual to become an adult was kind of sick, but that was a tribe of warrior that thrived for centuries, being there when the Greeks were the most powerful and then when the Romans started getting powerful and they had those 3 factions, Scytians were still the most eastern known tribe and fights against them were rare...only Alexander the Great's father managed to push them back way far into Asia...but yeah to be considered an adult you had to decapitate your first kill, take their scalp and pour blood from your opponent in it, holding it like a little pouch and drink it. Despite all that, they would never abuse their own kind and genders were equal, they were advanced in a lot of ways but I said enough to tickle some's curiosities anyway.
Haha, yeah, read Steve Agner's research on the Scythians. I only knew them from computer games taking placing in the Roman Times, when my turn was over, all the other factions/countries would have their turn and I'd see some of what was happening for each of them, depending on if I had spies on the land on some watchtowers. Back in Rome: Total War, when I still gamed a lot, I haven't game much since that year in, 2007, college became way too difficult in my third and fourth year of that BSc.
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User2060 ago
Even the ancient civilization that the Greek were puzzled about and wondering who came first, Egyptians or the Scythians (east of Greece, they occupied a huge territory, their capital being somewhere along a river in central Afghanistan). The legend of Amazons came from the 14 year old Scytian girls who would be someone you would not want to meet, riding on their pony they could throw battle axes 20-25 meters away accurately. Scytian considered children and teenagers equal to the adults and there certainly were no sexism amongst them. Sure their official ritual to become an adult was kind of sick, but that was a tribe of warrior that thrived for centuries, being there when the Greeks were the most powerful and then when the Romans started getting powerful and they had those 3 factions, Scytians were still the most eastern known tribe and fights against them were rare...only Alexander the Great's father managed to push them back way far into Asia...but yeah to be considered an adult you had to decapitate your first kill, take their scalp and pour blood from your opponent in it, holding it like a little pouch and drink it. Despite all that, they would never abuse their own kind and genders were equal, they were advanced in a lot of ways but I said enough to tickle some's curiosities anyway.
star_boi ago
wtf for real
User2060 ago
Haha, yeah, read Steve Agner's research on the Scythians. I only knew them from computer games taking placing in the Roman Times, when my turn was over, all the other factions/countries would have their turn and I'd see some of what was happening for each of them, depending on if I had spies on the land on some watchtowers. Back in Rome: Total War, when I still gamed a lot, I haven't game much since that year in, 2007, college became way too difficult in my third and fourth year of that BSc.