desu geographics

The vastness of the eurasian steppe was not the highway of 1200AD+ it was a vast unending sea of nothing. The difference between these people was purely distance, but in 600ad,every KM might as well have been a lightyear

>>1166316
Not much. The same people spread out basically

Scythians never went that far into Europe

scythians, sarmatians, cimmerians, alans, kushans, ossetians were all one and the same

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seima-Turbino_phenomenon

>>1166495
actually they (Alania) made it all the way into Spain and North Africa

and dont forget about King Arthur of Scythia

influence on Arthurian legends

Scholars C. Scott Littleton and Ann C. Thomas posited that the legends of King Arthur and The Holy Grail derive from Sarmatian legends. The authors find parallels between the Sarmatian legend of Batradz, a Sarmatian king commanding his companions to throw his magical sword into a lake and Arthur's instructions to Sir Bedivere to throw his magical sword Excalibur into a lake. The authors also use historical records to demonstrate the presence of a 2nd-century AD colony of Sarmatian veterans at Bremetennacum, in modern Lancashire, as a historical source for the legends entering Britain.[46] A more extensive study of the Alano-Sarmatian impact on the Roman Empire and the Arthurian tradition is presented by C. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor in From Scythia to Camelot

>>1166316
they were all subgroups of scythians and spoke Scythian language

The Sarmatians differed from the Scythians in their veneration of the god of fire rather than god of nature, and women's prominent role in warfare, which possibly served as the inspiration for the Amazons


>>1166488
steppe + horses = a big homeland

simultaneously, these same dudes bilocated on the other side of the steppe, thousands of miles away, for thousands of years
>In Hungary, a great Late Sarmatian pottery centre was reportedly unearthed between 2001 and 2006 near Budapest, in Üllő5 archaeological site. Typical grey, granular Üllő5 ceramics forms a distinct group of Sarmatian pottery found everywhere in the north central part of the Great Hungarian Plain region

>According to Pliny, Scythian rule once extended as far as Germany. Jordanes supports this hypothesis by telling us on the one hand that he was familiar with the Geography of Ptolemy, which includes the entire Balto-Slavic territory in Sarmatia