Why couldn't The Romans Conquer Scythia? | Who were the Scythians?

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[@liamvanwalsum]

Was this video made by ai? The script and animations jump through time and space weirdly, spelling mistakes for animated words, and even had a few mentions of the north sea that i assume was pulled from a source that discussed trade and the ai then applied to borders?

[@keepcalm2626]

Wasn't there a Greek Bosporan Kingdom between the timelines mentioned in Tauride Peninsula, between 4 and 1 century BCE?

[@GenericYoutubeGuy]

Hey ‘Knowledgia’, Syria-Palestine didn’t exist until 120 AD, before that the region was called Canaan, Lebanon and Syria (obviously there wasn’t a singular united name for it but there were three regions in it) I have no clue why on earth you would call it that, because you certainly didn’t call Scythia Ukraine-Transcaucasia-Stan, and didn’t call the Roman Empire ‘Mediterranea’ lol.

[@GenericYoutubeGuy]

@@liamvanwalsumit might be because he called ancient Canaan, Lebanon and Syria ‘Palestinian Syria’

[@janrudnicki6111]

There was Two SCYTHIA European and Asiana

[@dantetre]

I remember that in Rome: Total War it was pain in the ass fighting the Scythians. They either steamrolled over my smaller armies or they run away from my bigger ones.

[@frakismaximus3052]

Bastards

[@lambert801]

That's exactly how they were historically.

[@kacangajaib1563]

Well no sane people gonna charge into a larger army, even if they have unit advantage and terrain advantage (probably)😂

[@salivatingfarmhand5409]

I still remember that town named Domus Dulcis Domus (Home Sweet Home) on the Baltic coast lol

[@Gutenburg100]

Makes sense. Any people that heavily rely on horse archers as their main force would use hit and run tactics. Kind of like death by a thousand bee stings.

[@JoriztheGreat-Invictus]

I think the misconception about this is that Scythians were not a monolithic people. They were diverse tribes. Greek & Roman authors often lump those various groups into this term: "Scythians" like the way they treat the Germans. Scythia isn't worth conquering. As they were Nomadic people with no uniform civilization. Even the great, Alexander gave up because it isn't worthwhile, when he encountered the Sakka, or one of the Scythian groups. Similar to Tiberius policy of withdrawal of Germania, Scythian will just cause more burden than profit that will downgrade the Roman economy.

[@jacavanheesch4593]

i tough that much was obvious but the video treats them like a empire rather then different people groups with similar language and beliefs and geographical area

[@jbarral6509]

It's the same for the illyrians

[@TeutonicEmperor1198]

fun fact. Huns were named as Scythians in Eastern Roman historiography

[@paulrodgers7228]

Tiberius’s decision to withdraw from Germania definitely backfired on the Romans a few hundred years later, didn’t it? Lol!

[@mr.purple1779]

@@TeutonicEmperor1198 Well, they were and are generally Scythians.

[@MikkoAPenttila]

To be fair to Rome, in the premodern era, the only ones who could conquer steppe nomads for more than a minute were steppe nomads.

[@lambert801]

And... Russia!

[@MikkoAPenttila]

@@lambert801 depends on which beginning date you assign to modernity really. Which is always somewhat arbitrary. I regard the conquests of Kazan and Astrakhan to have occurred in the early modern era.

[@christopherkucia1071]

@@MikkoAPenttilaI say the Nordic migrations in the 6-700’s were the beginning of Russia with Novgorod, Kiev, and the Nordic pirate colonies in the Baltic area.

[@christopherkucia1071]

@@lambert801becoming true kingdoms late 700’s and early 800’s

[@christopherkucia1071]

@@MikkoAPenttilaso yeah much later than the Roman decline.

[@randrothify]

Some factual errors here. Rome was founded in 753 B.C. according to legend. Also, the narrator continually referred to the Black Sea as the North Sea, which is confusing because the North Sea of today is not the North Sea of ancient times. Before the common era, ancient peoples equated colors with cardinal directions and "black" symbolically meant "north", so it is correct to point out that the Black Sea is an ancient way of describing a northern sea. However, the narrator does not make this clear and should have explained the historical context.

[@Zetler]

Because there’s nothing to conquer.

[@cabinessenceking]

Literally nothing there. It wasn't even an "empire", but a culture. The Scythians were constantly at war with each other as well as neighbouring peoples.

[@shiny_teddiursa]

@@cabinessencekingthey maintained their PIE ancestor’s pastoral nomadic lifestyle, i think they are the only PIE descendant to maintain that as all the other ones eventually became settled societies

[@lepmuhangpa]

Did you know that Buddha was indeed a Scythian?

[@cal2127]

wierdly enough theres actually reports of them having cities like scythian neopolis.

[@lepmuhangpa]

@@cal2127 Sythians were wealthy merchants & traders.

[@AtheismScientism]

Answer: They were focused on other regions and manpower/logistics spread too long.

[@bradkrekelberg8624]

Cool stuff. The clouds make your maps hard to follow sometimes.

[@chrisderidder4087]

Clouds make it cool

[@PeterKamen-c5d]

The Cimmerians were also a Scythian group who spoke an Iranic language. It is important to remember that the people we know as Iranians today only contain a portion of ancient Iranian groups like the Scythians.

[@Somerandomguy-b9z]

“Why the romans could not conquer Uranus ?”

[@TheBandit025Nova]

Because They don’t have cojones

[@TheListOf]

Because it's too far away???

[@solartree4189]

It is simply too big

[@Somerandomguy-b9z]

@@TheListOf bro are you that innocent ?🤡

[@TheListOf]

@@Somerandomguy-b9z Are you that DENSE??? 🤡

[@AnthonyGentile-z2g]

Rome absorbed regions which had urban centers. The Classical civilization was politically and socially an urban civilization. The Romans ruled thru essentially self-governing cities. Regions without an urban culture (or at least the beginnings of one-likecthe Celts) were usually left alone.

[@Tomas20728]

And as nomads they could easily move away and lure roman armies deep into the steppe. Some romans armies were lost like this against persians armies who were as well good cavalry men!

[@Patriciaball-rp1jz]

Hey Knowlegia, I love your videos! Just a small complaint, the cool cloud effect is making a bit more difficult to see the map, so you can remove that if you want or not!

[@embreis2257]

3:02 'the Scythian empire was as its peak from roughly 670 BCE to 350 BCE.' okay, nuff said already for the headline to sound weird. in 350 BCE Rome was not a superpower but a small collection of Italian tribes. it hasn't even started to take on the Carthaginians. nomadic people are notoriously difficult to 'conquer' militarily for a settled society. the steppes of the Eurasian plains don't offer much for ancient societies anyway.

[@nishantduhan1]

Another mistake is that there wasn’t even a Scythian empire; it was a confederation of different clans, far from being an actual empire.

[@kiowhatta1]

Scythia was indeed a hodgepodge of many different tribes, not a uniform, united people

[@unemiryune9322]

'armed with bows on horseback' (c) - well yes, if I'd see a scythian wielding a horse with a bow sitting on top of it I'd be terrified as well

[@randomlygeneratedname7171]

That's hilarious. Reminds me of how the common myth of Horse people started from just riders, described as one with the horse.

[@OshinAttari]

Imagine If all Anicent Iranian Tribes Were United ☠️

[@DocuAddict666]

No cities, just horse riders who say bye and ride off if they have no arrows left and you are still standing, self sufficient as hunters and herders, with a retreat direction in 270° from west to east minimum, thousands of kilometers to run, in literally nothing but grasslands. Now, try to convince a roman legion, mainly footmen, with logistics depending on mules, oxen, wagons maybe or sea/river access to set march for it. They'll ask if you're drunk.

[@Bigmojojo]

They did have some cities, just not many of them

[@genovayork2468]

@@DocuAddict666 Dnieper, Don, Kuban, Southern Bug, Dniester.

[@acaydia2982]

The latest genetics show they weren’t as nomadic as we once thought

[@masonkim7]

11:01 Why would Rome march all the way over there to conquer? what a poorly researched clickbait video trying to cash in on anything related to the Roman Empire.

[@Warmaker01]

I agree. Scythia had already been ended and displaced in the 200s BC. They had many internal problems and their enemies were getting the better of them. Macedon had handed them defeats. Yes, that Macedon. Then the Sarmatians came in from the east and it was over. Dude was showing pictures of Roman Emperors like Trajan. Like they were going to fight the Scythians who had ceased to exist as a power hundreds of years before. Trajan reigned from 98-117 *AD*. The Romans had to deal with Sarmatians. Not Scythians. May as well make a video asking, "Why didn't the Roman Empire conquer Qing Dynasty of China?"

[@elshaddaimosthigh5003]

i think its AI created, there#s loads of them now... they are souless

[@balabanasireti]

Okay, kid 🤓

[@elshaddaimosthigh5003]

@@balabanasireti What's up ?

[@elshaddaimosthigh5003]

@@balabanasireti I don't mean Scythians, I mean the AI programme that makes these programmes. Scythians are amazing

[@worldofmix6766]

Saka is basically Old Persian for Latin Scythian

[@CurbYourEnthusiasm65]

Saxon

[@nisantasicoocugu216]

Sakha Yakut Republic exist in the Siberia! Sakha peoples are Turkic!

[@NafeesBaloch-kt8vm]

😅 Saka today Punjabi and Baloch ​@@nisantasicoocugu216

[@aMIr20095]

​@@nisantasicoocugu216 no genetic test show something else

[@iGabenewell]

That cloud effect is truly terrible

[@АнтонПавлов-ц4з]

quote: The Scythians can be called Thracians engaged in animal husbandry. In search of new lands, these old Balkans go far from their native places. Some settled in Central Asia, becoming neighbors of Persians, Indians, Chinese, etc. Others remain in the Balkans, more precisely in Dobruja, where the coins of the Scythian kings Haraspos, Adraspos (with names similar to the name of Heros Ut-aspios and that of Kanas Asparuh), Kanit, etc., minted about 2200 years ago, were found.

[@islammehmeov2334]

LoL bulgaria GYPSY dreams again 😂

[@АнтонПавлов-ц4з]

@@islammehmeov2334 Archeological data doesn't lie dude.

[@nisantasicoocugu216]

Asparuh Turkic Bulgars Leaders common names btw Crimean Tatars also very crowded Turkic peoples and all Tatars Leaders first name might be Giray. this is very unique details from ancient times also Turkic peoples chactheristic tradition

[@АнтонПавлов-ц4з]

@@nisantasicoocugu216 Wrong.Try again.

[@sunnyboy4553]

Great video. So wide-ranging, an overview of pertinant facts I didn't know before. Thank you.

[@thomasbravado]

Empires often like to expand until they reach defensible geographic barriers such as mountains and coasts. In the case of the Roman Empire, the Carpathian mountains made it easy to defend the Balkan peninsula from the north and east, while the Eurasian steppe would have been much harder to defend.

[@UssrMapping123]

Finally! I've been waiting for this video since forever! 👍💖

[@Tomorer]

Excellent summation at the end there @14:07

[@sharity3289]

Thank you!😂

[@Tomorer]

@@sharity3289 Of course prescient day reseaunch suggest Scythians were in fact key allies of the Roman Patricians. I'll wager Praetorians were often Scythian nobles and links to mercenaries willing to assist against the Germans.

[@SMK-SAS]

Scythia, actually Scythia Minor, had already been conquered by a client of Rome after the death of the mighty menace of Rome, Mithridates VII Eupator of Pontus. This client of Rome was one of Eupator's successor states, the Bosporan Kingdom, which will prove to be the longest-lasting client of Rome: 63 BCE - 527 CE. At the time of Eupator's death, Bosporans also ruled over the Chersonite Greeks, although that was not always the case.

[@ignoranceisachoice6045]

It wasn't called "Palestinian Syria" until Rome called it that in 70AD.

[@cerdic6586]

The Scythians were not an 'empire'.

[@Poiyti]

Eastern Iranians: Scythians Western Iranians: Parthians and Persia Poor Rome😂

[@mr.archivity]

Not really 🤷‍♂️

[@SMK-SAS]

@@PatriotOfPersia Alans? You must mean the Germanic Vandals.

[@abolfazlabasnatj2319]

Cavalry and flat plain Trying to conqour with legion? Good luck

[@Poiyti]

@@abolfazlabasnatj2319 Roman legionaries were not able to fight against Iranian cataphracts at all, study the battle of Haran how the Parians beat the Roman legionaries with 100 casualties, nearly 25 thousand dead, but everyone still thinks that Rome was stronger than Iran, even the last war Iran and Byzantium Byzantium was almost falling, but impenetrable Constantinople saved them.

[@abolfazlabasnatj2319]

@@Poiyti برادر چه بی ربط سخن میگویی؟ شما باید بفهمی کجا از چی استفاده کنی تو زمین صاف سواره پیروزه با پیاده نمیتونی :حران ‌ ادسا تو کوهستان و محاصره شهر سوار بیخاصیته با اسب میخوای از دیوار بری بالا؟ و نیزه دار سواره رو بهتر میزنه چون حیوونه دیگه نمیتونه اون نیزه رو دفاع کنه و شمشیر با پیاده نظام قابلیت مانور بیشتره داره تو دعوا تن به تن واسه همینه روم پیاده نظام جر میدهد اما از سواره میخورد تازه با حساب اینا یه کسی مثل پاکور یا اردوان ۵ درست استفاده نمیکنن و شکست خوردن از روم ایران همیشه پیروز نبوده. شاپور میدونست سوار نباید طولانی مدت تو جنگ بمونه باید بکوبه فقط اردوان نمیدونست تلفات سنگین داد

[@HazMat1012]

The last time I flew (end of 2022), the fees were confusing when I booked. I thought I was okay until I was charged baggage fee with one checked bag when I checked in. Since September 2020, I have gone to 5 different destinations of at least 800 miles one way. Of those 5 trips, I drove 3 of those times. It was way more enjoyable to drive. With driving, I can pull over when I want to, enjoy the scenery, and accidentally discover things I couldn't on a plane. For example, I was driving through Nevada from Spokane, Washington, and stumbled on a pullout with The Pony Express information. Plus, the flying process isn't fun with lines, check-in, security, or boarding. Boarding sucks. They are so ineffective. However, I flew a lot for the military and personal reasons. So, I'm sure some of it is just burnout combined with the ineffective flying process ineffective fly

[@darrenmarshall8278]

This video is very well made ! Thank you .

[@briandain8432]

Fascinating Video!! Great Job!!

[@thebiggestshot5958]

Man I love this channel

[@pooya4434]

7:36 umm no. Darius did not conquer Egypt. It was Cambyses (Son of Cyrus the great) who did that.

[@benimtelefoncaliyor1dk]

Scythians weren't the martial nomads they're portrayed to be, Romans simply had no interest in the Scythian lands contrary to the Oghuric horsemen who erased Scythians off history and geography

[@thieph]

You are delusional turk to say that schytians weren't martial in the most martial place in Eurasia😂

[@PatriotOfPersia]

How many Account do you have????

[@Thomas_Name]

​@@PatriotOfPersia Just the one. Why?

[@kaiza9184]

@@PatriotOfPersiaJust the one. Why?

[@PatriotOfPersia]

@@kaiza9184 😂😂😂😂😂

[@axell964]

700.000 peoole in an army at that time? Yeah....not happening. 70.000 would already have been a stretch.

[@nishantduhan1]

It's Herodotos the father of historical lies 😂

[@chrisoulalakkas7935]

Improving yourself daily should be the only addiction you ever need.

[@PatriotOfPersia]

Darius conquered Crimea and most of the northern shores of the Black Sea. A few years ago, a statue of Darius was found around Sochi, Russia. Achaemenians also went to Sicily and had relations with them and supported them against the Greeks

[@frostbitelotus9747]

Poster is a dumbass, Darius fought Greece in 300 bc, Rome wasn’t a factor in this area for several hundred years after.

[@reblo111]

The persians had experience dealing with them, they probably spoke a similar language

[@luciusdomitiusaurelianus5334]

They entered as merchants not conquerors

[@viraloracle5151]

@@luciusdomitiusaurelianus5334 no Persian army built fortresses in Crimea after taking over.

[@luciusdomitiusaurelianus5334]

@@viraloracle5151 I was speaking about Sicily

[@Steven-dt5nu]

Rome was 753 BC. I enjoy your videos

[@MohitGupta-cm2sh]

why couldn't the romans conquer new zealand 🔥

[@bobakbobak2588]

I'm a Pars(Persian) and one of my friends is a 6 6 red-headed Scythian originally from Ossetia(Ossetians are one of the Iraninc people and the Aryan cousins of the Persians). If you visit the Perspolis(Parseh) in Shiraz and Bisotun in Kermanshah(both are very historical cities in Iran) you'll see the petroglyph of Scythians with pointy helmets. Interestingly, while on the Perspolis walls, they're seen hand in hand with their Persian cousins, on the Bisotun wall their leader is captured and captivated amongst others because they rebelled against King Dariush The Great(a lesson for some of the Kurds and Azaris who are making the same mistake thinking this time somehow it would be different). Anyways, as a Pars, I love my Scythian cousins especially those who live in Ossetia, I think about you every once in a while and I hope one day I get the chance to visit and I highly encourage you to come and visit Iran; after all, we're all Iranic people.

[@greatcivs]

I love your videos!! And the Scythians ❤

[@ІванГриць-в3р]

Gerodot wrote that territory of Scythians had placed from the Danube to the Don river.

[@revert6417]

Interestingly, the word 'Skita' in Serbian means 'to wander'

[@jesusismyhelp9005]

Even today Serbia is named after a Scythian tribe called the serboii who where documented in 350 bc even Serbs themselves can find a bit of iranic dna

[@seanzibonanzi64]

We see the origins of the scorced earth strategy used to great effect by this region with the Scythians. It's hard to conquer a people who hold no land sacred.

[@tazenda2P]

The Romans repeatedly ran into the Scythian, Sarmatian, Parthian, Hun wall in the east. They couldn't handle the horse archers, it was too big for them.

[@mr.archivity]

Answer: they didn’t want to wage war against the Scythian tribes as their merchants passed there to reach northern Hindu valley to trade evading Persian territories.

[@ijoeysnake]

great vid

[@briandain8432]

2 cool things about the Scythians: their Scythe (Grim Reaper's Fave) was used to Harvest Hemp for their Superior Bow-String. And never confirmed but obviously the very loose inspiration of the SITH in Original Star Wars (not the Diznee crap)

[@wolfm33]

Why couldn't The Romans Conquer Scythia? Because real life is not a Paradox grand strategy game.

[@crimfan]

Heavy infantry vs light cavalry on the Pontic steppe? That’s insane.

[@BBCBusinessMen]

As an Assyrian I thought I knew all of my history but never knew about the Scythians and their contribution to our history

[@NafeesBaloch-kt8vm]

Assyrian is Scythians

[@lerneanlion]

Question: When did the Scythians end and the Bulgars and the Khazars began?

[@BlueBird-q8k]

6 th century after christ The Scythians were replaced But there are still some notable exception Ossetians and pamiris are reminded of Scythians

[@lambert801]

Centuries of nomadic incursions into their homelands from the east. The Huns had already devastated the Scythians by the 4th century. The Turkic invasions dealt the fatal blow in the 6th century.

[@ds-on4sm]

Scythians are Thracians are Bulgarians. The Bulgars were Thracian Scythians.

[@BlueBird-q8k]

@@ds-on4sm what ?

[@ds-on4sm]

@@BlueBird-q8k Scythian comes from the Bulgarian word skiti which means those who wander. The word has no meaning in any other language than Bulgarian and a few Slavic. Scythia Minor is in Bulgaria/Romania and the oldest Scythia where Tomyris ( a Thracian woman) established Tomi. "The capital of province was Tomis (today Constanța).[1] The province ceased to exist around 679-681, when the region was overrun by the Bulgars, which the Emperor Constantine IV was forced to recognize in 681.[4]" What they dont tell is that it "ceased to exist" because at exactly this time Bulgaria united all its lands and established the First Bulgarian empire. I wonder if this is just a "mistake" or deliberate falsification of history. Bulgarians are still taught this in school.Not to mention that emperor Constantine had a Thracian lineage just like many Roman emperors. So things are not black and white.

[@GustavoMaldonadoFidalgo]

I hope that in another video you mention the Iazyges ( sarmatian tribe who established a kingdom in what is now Hungary ) and fought against the Roman empire

[@mayer14474]

0:30 No, Scythia did not include the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. Scythia was a vast region inhabited by the Scythians, a nomadic people, stretching across parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, primarily north of the Black Sea, and extending into parts of the Eurasian Steppe. The southern shore of the Caspian Sea, however, was typically associated with the region known as Media and later with other parts of Persia (modern-day Iran). The Scythians were more associated with the northern shores of the Caspian Sea and the steppes to the northwest of it.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Wonderful and an informative work about Cythiasian empire glorious history

[@KhazrataliZokirov]

The basis of the Scythians was the Massaget and Sak tribes.By 3 AD, the Huns joined the Massagets and Saks and founded the Turkic tribes. their descendants today🇺🇿🇰🇬🇦🇿🇰🇿🇹🇷🇹🇲🤟🗿🐺⚔️👊

[@RealStalin]

LOL Turks were in Mongolia while Scythians lived in Central Asia

[@MuhammadFazil-xs9gg]

They were iranic people not turkic

[@TheGreatOneIn]

​@@RealStalinNot even Mongolia. Actually Manchuria around the Amur River

[@ramtin5152]

The saka along with the areas around modern day Aral sea (Chorasmia/Khwarazmia) were conquered by Cyrus the great not Darius the great They revolted when Darius became king but he crushed their rebellions and reconquered them

[@irgendwer3610]

why would rome invade a nomadic tribe all the way into the black sea when they can't even sail there?

[@martinsmith9054]

Julius Ceasar believed Rome would never be truly secure until they conquered Parthia, Pontic Scythia and Germany. He speculated that Germany could be taken in pincers after taking Scythia. A grand strategic vision with not enough resources.

[@salivatingfarmhand5409]

Conquering Scythia and Germany was probably possible, but the administrative and economical burden would've collapsed the empire centuries earlier than OTL. We are talking about a colossal amount of overextension, rebellions, importing resources, constructing brand new cities from scratch, finding people willing to colonize.. its utter nightmare

[@jchapman8248]

Where dId the Cimmerians migrate once the Scythians had expelled them from their ancestral home? And why did the former allies turn on one another after they had subdued the Assyrians?

[@odilusporce8814]

The script is written by chat GPT? Fell souless and repetitive

[@lpcanilla92]

Probably. The names on the map are all over the place: "Etrustians", "Meiterranian", or "Assyria" over the span of Acaemenid Persia.

[@ioioi_prx4639]

>Greatest empire >Lost to women Can't be me

[@AltaicGigachad]

Another Turkic tribe with which Scythianic Alans came in contact in the 5th and 6th century was Bulgars and then Khazars who pushed the Alan state beyond the river Terek . Alania was a vassal state of Khazars for two centuries .

[@Saam-cc7lr]

Scythians were iranian people

[@AltaicGigachad]

@@Saam-cc7lr I’ve never claimed they weren’t lol

[@Larrypint]

if you have read the roman Antike literature then you should know that they have been nearly in every source described as red/blond haired and blue/green eyed.

[@Dggedsteven12]

Bruh, I love your videos but this one was weird. "Why couldn't The Romans Conquer Scythia?" That's like asking why the 13 colonies couldn't conquer The Aztecs? This would have been a better video if you didn't try to force the romans into it. Frankly, it makes the video worse because they're irrelevant to your better question "Who were the Scythians?" The script that focuses on them was great. But forcing the romans into the video makes this feel disingenuous and thus feel like clickbait. There's just no reason for this video to include the romans. Especially your focus on comparing the state of Rome with Scythia's rise and fall. You could have spent that time showcasing the culture of the various groups and their differences. Maybe focused on tackling the usual mistake of historians to lob groups into one group when there were many. I love the romans and everything that comes with their existence, but this was a poor attempt to mix the romans with another culture for the sake of throwing the word "conquer," "romans," and "some culture" into the mix.

[@neroatlas9121]

Think about rome is it could defeat a settled people, and conquer them, but they could never counquer something as decentralized and mobile as steppe nomads. Thats also why attila was so successful. Thats also why the chinese always tried stopping the people of the northern steppes from unifying. The times they DID unify, china found itself faced with an enemy who even if they did defeat, would easily be replaced by a newer, possibly stronger enemy.

[@anglo-saxon9182]

I got scythian in me proud to have that in me

[@liamsweeen]

If the Romans conquered The Scythians, then they would eventually form a Roman “Golden Horde” during the 2nd/3rd century…

[@Keyhan-c8c]

no, LOL! conquering scythia doesn't mean they would turn into romans, you think romans had zombie bites that would turn every scythian into a roman? Think about it... If Rome conquered scythia they would just build roman cities and just like they did in middle east and north afria, those cities would been inhabited by both romans and scythians, but the rest of scythians who fled would still be around raiding the lands , so when they huns would arrive they the only difference would be that they had cities to conquered that were built by romans, instead of just wiping out the scythian remainings and going on their ways to attack roman lands in europe! golden hord at that time was at the east of scythians, whether scythian lands were conquered or not by romans, the golden hord would remain Turkic as they were.

[@liamsweeen]

@@Keyhan-c8c yeah, just meant that it would probably break away from the romans once they started to fall apart... Not like the Byzantines could control them, alongside other steppe-folk like the bulgars, magyars, etc.

[@mr.purple1779]

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[@liamsweeen]

@@KyIeMcCIeIIan What are you chatting about mate?

[@Keyhan-c8c]

@@KyIeMcCIeIIan yes ,in arabic they call them Lut, and you may have heard the famouse story of the people, if you did not, look it up on google ''people of Lut''

[@jasongaston17]

Let's go sending love from Chicago to see yet another banger keep it up bro

[@gazaly]

Gog and Magog have been historically associated with the Scythians by some ancient and medieval scholars, particularly due to their nomadic and threatening presence north of key civilizations. However, this identification is just one interpretation, and there is no definitive evidence linking them exclusively to the Scythians. Other interpretations also exist, making it a debated topic in biblical and historical studies. - ChatGPT

[@dmonitize9011]

Why did you not pronounce the S in Belarus? I genuinely cannot understand how you even did that

[@drewbc32]

Right?? Palestine was also pronounced weird. It was also called Israel at this point. This is before the Romans conquered it and named it Palestina after the Philistines, their enemies. And the cloudy effect was cool but hard to see.

[@sao9995]

The Scythians were not a unified ethnic group but rather a collection of related tribes.

[@Thebattler86]

They were all the same ethnicity.

[@sao9995]

@@Thebattler86 The Scythians were not a unified ethnic group but rather a collection of related tribes with shared cultural and linguistic traits. While they did not constitute a single ethnicity in the modern sense, they shared common cultural practices, languages, and a similar way of life, which contributed to their classification as Scythians by a few "contemporary observers". Their "ethnicity" in this context can be understood as a set of cultural and social characteristics rather than a single, homogeneous ethnic identity. The Scythian tribes, spread across a vast area from the Black Sea to Central Asia, had variations in customs and appearances but maintained a recognizable Scythian identity through their shared traditions, such as their distinctive burial practices, art styles, and nomadic lifestyle.

[@TreeCamper]

I think about the Roman Empire like every day Think of all the pasta they could have made with that wheat🌾

[@JojoBojob]

Why does it show the Achamenid Empire at 09:41 but the text says Assyria? This is a huuuuuge error that should be fixed.

[@Calventius]

Should have talked about how the Crimea became Roman..no one ever does.

[@ThatBalkanGuy.]

According to many ancient sources scythians were a thracian tribe, on top of them having insane similarities to the thracians(they didn't tolerate foreign religions, yet worshipped the thracian gods,weird why, right?).Their oldest settlement is from the delta of the Danube. They are not iranians, many of their words actually have similarities with thracian,/bulgarian words instead of iranian, but they get unacknowledged for some reason, like for example their name ,,scythians", they called themselves scutoi, which in thracian, which later became bulgarian, means to wander (since they are nomads). Or their battle axe called sagaris, oldest such was found in bulgaria, also the word for an axe in bulgarian and the other slavic languages is sekira. Btw you are going to say that bulgarians are slavs that emigrated to the Balkans in the 7th century,but that's not true. There is no ,,slavic" people. The south ,,slavic languages" are descendants of the old balkan languages and the northern slavs just speak a similar language. It is in modern times that the word slav was imposed on all of us. The old name for these ppl was veneti, which is why Russia is Venaja in finish. The original Perun believing ,,slavs" simply didnt have the numbers to conquer all of Eastern Europe and impose their language, they just spoke similar language to the thracians and illyrians. The topic is long and will probably leave you even more confused

[@Lunanecra]

Nice job done here, nice to watch it :) (according to germanic history...) Im in fear, that history is a bit different, about who were Sarmatians, who they belonged to, and why they beat Scythians... one day we will learn the whole truth :) Just one hint to you, and i really dont care who pays you... Tartaria

[@18ankurail80]

I don't understand why they use a black map with dark blue seas and clouds covering everything. It's impossible to distinguish!

[@WinstonMaraj-gx8sm]

A good talk on the Scythians.But yhe main idea of why the Romans didnt go after them...

[@SamBrockmann]

Just remember Tomyris, the fiercest Scythian queen.

[@scienceandfuturetech4707]

According to Herodotus tomyris is not a Scythian but she is closely related to the Scythians

[@scienceandfuturetech4707]

According to marcillius amelius the Roman historian Tomyris was Scythian

[@SamBrockmann]

@@scienceandfuturetech4707 , at that point, it's really splitting hairs, isn't it, Heroditus?!

[@ramtin5152]

She's most probably just a myth which is also kinda stated by Herodotus himself There are almost 10 different stories about Cyrus death Tomyris is only in one of them No other Greek or Roman historian even mentioned her neither her story makes sense in case of strategy, military and geography Ctesias, the Greek physician and historian of Artaxerxes II who worked in the royal court of the Achaemenids, doesn't mention her either but his version of the story actually makes sense in the cases in which Herodotus version doesn't

[@SamBrockmann]

@@ramtin5152 , that doesn't relegate her to "a myth". 🤣🤣😆

[@RCass2802]

Not so much of why they "couldn't", rather why they "didn't"

[@krisjackson7582]

The clouds make your maps difficult to decipher a majority of the time

[@mrhumble2937]

They didnt take germania either which was right there. They did what made sense at the time.

[@gorilladisco9108]

it's bold to think Rome could conquer Scythia. Rome had bad records when fighting against horseback riders.

[@HanbenAng]

Some Scythian tribes were known to be cannibals by mixing human meat with domestic animals.

[@saintdenis11]

Missed opportunity in the beginning to say: "More heads, more booty."

[@Babanovac1]

not Romania,at that time was called Dacia by Romans or Getia by Greeks

[@ralfhtg1056]

Major Error: Ancient Rome was not founded in 723 before our time. It was founded in 753 before our time!

[@CARL_093]

cool and very informative

[@lepmuhangpa]

Did you know that Buddha was indeed a Scythian?

[@kuro5559]

darius conquered crimea

[@lambert801]

And much of the northern coastal regions of the Black Sea.

[@ramtin5152]

Exactly There's even a fort in Phanagoria in Russia with an Achaemenid inscription in it It was about a Persian victory over the Ionians as if informing a satrap of his or his general's victory Not only that, in one of his inscriptions, one out of the 3 or 4 Saka tribes is called the Scythians beyond/over the sea These Scythians are depicted as soldiers on his tomb entrance too That's clearly the Scythians north of the black sea

[@ramtin5152]

​@@lambert801Exactly There's even a fort in Phanagoria in Russia with an Achaemenid inscription in it It was about a Persian victory over the Ionians as if informing a satrap of his or his general's victory Not only that, in one of his inscriptions, one out of the 3 or 4 Saka tribes is called the Scythians beyond/over the sea These Scythians are depicted as soldiers on his tomb entrance too That's clearly the Scythians north of the black sea

[@viraloracle5151]

yea darius defeated the scythians lo l i dont know why this video claims otherwise.

[@Friendlyhu]

The Mongols: hold my airag

[@troydavis1]

6:46 753 not 723. And its Belarus, not Belaru !

[@scythn]

Oh hey. Thats the place i used to make my username from. Scythia. Age of empires 2 i think they where featured in back in days when i made it

[@ModestEric]

Seems like lots of fierce enemies came from the east to the west, like germanic tribes, huns, scythians, mongols, etc what could be the common reason...

[@genovayork2468]

4000 km long, not wide, boso.😂 Plains and steppes aren't comparable units, steppe is a biogeographical unit, plain is a relief unit.

[@TheListOf]

@@genovayork2468 I SEE YOU 😆 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 😂

[@theawesomeman9821]

Who's that Pokemon!? It's Scythia!

[@ramtin5152]

Egypt was conquered by Cambyses II not Darius the great He conquered Libya after

[@talhaawan4919]

This is Iranian saka people😊