Why couldn't The Romans Conquer Scythia? | Who were the Scythians?
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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?
Wasn't there a Greek Bosporan Kingdom between the timelines mentioned in Tauride Peninsula, between 4 and 1 century BCE?
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.
@@liamvanwalsumit might be because he called ancient Canaan, Lebanon and Syria ‘Palestinian Syria’
There was Two SCYTHIA European and Asiana
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.
Bastards
That's exactly how they were historically.
Well no sane people gonna charge into a larger army, even if they have unit advantage and terrain advantage (probably)😂
I still remember that town named Domus Dulcis Domus (Home Sweet Home) on the Baltic coast lol
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.
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.
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
It's the same for the illyrians
fun fact. Huns were named as Scythians in Eastern Roman historiography
Tiberius’s decision to withdraw from Germania definitely backfired on the Romans a few hundred years later, didn’t it? Lol!
@@TeutonicEmperor1198 Well, they were and are generally Scythians.
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.
And... Russia!
@@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.
@@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.
@@lambert801becoming true kingdoms late 700’s and early 800’s
@@MikkoAPenttilaso yeah much later than the Roman decline.
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.
Because there’s nothing to conquer.
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.
@@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
Did you know that Buddha was indeed a Scythian?
wierdly enough theres actually reports of them having cities like scythian neopolis.
@@cal2127
Sythians were wealthy merchants & traders.
Answer: They were focused on other regions and manpower/logistics spread too long.
Cool stuff. The clouds make your maps hard to follow sometimes.
Clouds make it cool
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.
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!
Scythia was indeed a hodgepodge of many different tribes, not a uniform, united people
“Why the romans could not conquer Uranus ?”
Because They don’t have cojones
Because it's too far away???
It is simply too big
@@TheListOf bro are you that innocent ?🤡
@@CaesarAugustusBasileus Are you that DENSE??? 🤡
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.
Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) population was 56,800,000 in 25 BC, but only a minority were Romans.
The Scythians originated in Central Asia possibly around the 9th century BC.
The Scythians arrived in the Caucasian Steppe in the 8th and 7th centuries BC.
The Scythians were finally expelled from West Asia by the Medes in the 600s BC, after which they retreated into the Pontic Steppe.
The territory of the Scythian kingdom of the Pontic steppe (600 BC - 350 BC) extended from the Don River in the east to the Danube River in the west.
Beginning in the late 4th century BC, another related nomadic Iranian people, the Sarmatians, moved from the east into the Pontic steppe, where they replaced the Scythians as the dominant power of the Pontic steppe by the Sarmatians, due to which "Sarmatia Europea" (European Sarmatia) replaced "Scythia" as the name for the region.
Claudius Ptolemy in his Geography in 150 AD wrote about Sarmatia Europea between the Dniester and Don Rivers (100 BC - 230 AD), between the Baltic and Black Sea, and Sarmatia Asiatica (350 BC - 370 AD) north of Caucasus, between the Don and Volga Rivers. Around 350 BC, the Don River was a border between Scythians and Sarmatians. Sarmatian conquest of Scythia began in 4th century BC, Donbas if full of mass graves from the 4th century BC ancient battles. One-third of the victims in the Scytho-Sarmatian wars were females.
Scyrhians came from West Asia.
@@genovayork2468 Nope. They came from Central Asia following a path south of Caspian Lake in the 9th century BC, not north of Caspian Lake like historians interpret Neo--Assyrian Empire (911 BC-609 BC) history. Neo--Assyrian Empire cast out Scythian nomads north of the Caucasus Mountains in today's South Russia while their capital was Assur on the Tigris River (911-879 BC), Scythians migrated to today's Ukrainian Pontic Steppe in the early 7th century BC, around 680 BC. Sauromatians-Sarmatians lived around the Ural River (950 BC - 600 BC), around the Volga River (600 BC -400 BC), and they invaded the Steppe west of the Don River (400 BC - 370 AD). Scythians and Sarmatians used different migration paths.
www.worldhistorymaps.info/primeval/1000-bc/
If You take a look at the World map around 1000 BC, they are also wrong. Colchis was "the earliest Georgian formation since 13th century BC."
The Cimmerians themselves left no written records, and most information about them is largely derived from Assyrian records of the 8th to 7th centuries BC. In the 10th century BC Cimmerian tribes ruled in the area of today's South Russia, between the Don and Volga Rivers. The Cimmerians came from Central Asia and they were forced to migrate by m o n g o l o i d s from western China. It is written, not by Cimmerians.
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.
They did have some cities, just not many of them
@@DocuAddict666 Dnieper, Don, Kuban, Southern Bug, Dniester.
The latest genetics show they weren’t as nomadic as we once thought
That cloud effect is truly terrible
700.000 peoole in an army at that time? Yeah....not happening.
70.000 would already have been a stretch.
'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
That's hilarious. Reminds me of how the common myth of Horse people started from just riders, described as one with the horse.
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.
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?"
i think its AI created, there#s loads of them now... they are souless
Okay, kid 🤓
@@balabanasireti What's up ?
@@balabanasireti I don't mean Scythians, I mean the AI programme that makes these programmes. Scythians are amazing
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.
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!
Imagine If all Anicent Iranian Tribes Were United ☠️
4000 km long, not wide, boso.😂 Plains and steppes aren't comparable units, steppe is a biogeographical unit, plain is a relief unit.
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why couldn't the romans conquer new zealand 🔥
Man I love this channel
Fascinating Video!! Great Job!!
This video is very well made ! Thank you .
6:46 753 not 723. And its Belarus, not Belaru !
Finally! I've been waiting for this video since forever! 👍💖
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 .
Scythians were iranian people
@@Saam-cc7lr I’ve never claimed they weren’t lol
The Cimmerians were the exiled Northern Israelites aka "Bet Khumri", who were mentioned on the Black Obelisk of Shalmanaser II and appeared in in Assyrian census records in 700BC. The Greeks called them "Kimmeroi" which is where the term "Cimmerians" comes from. The Trojans were descended from a Cimmerian colony in Dardania.
The Scythians were not an 'empire'.
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
Interestingly, the word 'Skita' in Serbian means 'to wander'
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.
Eastern Iranians: Scythians
Western Iranians: Parthians and Persia
Poor Rome😂
Not really 🤷♂️
@@PatriotOfPersia Alans? You must mean the Germanic Vandals.
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.
Rome was 753 BC. I enjoy your videos
The script is written by chat GPT? Fell souless and repetitive
Probably. The names on the map are all over the place: "Etrustians", "Meiterranian", or "Assyria" over the span of Acaemenid Persia.
Are these AI documentaries ?
Yes…
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
Poster is a dumbass, Darius fought Greece in 300 bc, Rome wasn’t a factor in this area for several hundred years after.
The persians had experience dealing with them, they probably spoke a similar language
They entered as merchants not conquerors
@@luciusdomitiusaurelianus5334 no Persian army built fortresses in Crimea after taking over.
@@viraloracle5151 I was speaking about Sicily
Great video. So wide-ranging, an overview of pertinant facts I didn't know before. Thank you.
Scythians did not look like your pictures. They were a eurasian people, more european in some regards ( in appereance ).
They were eastern Iranic people his Depictions is almost Correct
@@yousafdaudzai3078 They may be Iranian but many had red and blond hair. Not sure those are typical Iranian genetics.
@@yousafdaudzai3078 Iranians dont have blue eye yellow hair dominantly.
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.
darius conquered crimea
And much of the northern coastal regions of the Black Sea.
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
@@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
yea darius defeated the scythians lo l i dont know why this video claims otherwise.
Gerodot wrote that territory of Scythians had placed from the Danube to the Don river.
why would rome invade a nomadic tribe all the way into the black sea when they can't even sail there?
Why couldn't The Romans Conquer Scythia?
Because real life is not a Paradox grand strategy game.
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🇺🇿🇰🇬🇦🇿🇰🇿🇹🇷🇹🇲🤟🗿🐺⚔️👊
Saka is basically Old Persian for Latin Scythian
As an Assyrian I thought I knew all of my history but never knew about the Scythians and their contribution to our history
Why did you not pronounce the S in Belarus? I genuinely cannot understand how you even did that
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.
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.
Heavy infantry vs light cavalry on the Pontic steppe? That’s insane.
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.
Way to many horse back soldiers to wide also wats point of surrounding black sea
Egypt was conquered by Cambyses II not Darius the great
He conquered Libya after
The Scythians were not a unified ethnic group but rather a collection of related tribes.
They were all the same ethnicity.
@@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.
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.
I love your videos!! And the Scythians ❤
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It wasn't called "Palestinian Syria" until Rome called it that in 70AD.
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
Should have talked about how the Crimea became Roman..no one ever does.
Did you know that Buddha was indeed a Scythian?
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
You are delusional turk to say that schytians weren't martial in the most martial place in Eurasia😂
How many Account do you have????
@@PatriotOfPersia Just the one. Why?
@@PatriotOfPersiaJust the one. Why?
@@kaiza9184
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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.
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?
Who's that Pokemon!?
It's Scythia!
Wonderful and an informative work about Cythiasian empire glorious history
Because yes
Question: When did the Scythians end and the Bulgars and the Khazars began?
6 th century after christ
The Scythians were replaced
But there are still some notable exception
Ossetians and pamiris are reminded of Scythians
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.
Scythians are Thracians are Bulgarians. The Bulgars were Thracian Scythians.
@@ds-on4sm what ?
@@user-oj8sh7ur4x 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.
Just remember Tomyris, the fiercest Scythian queen.
According to Herodotus tomyris is not a Scythian but she is closely related to the Scythians
According to marcillius amelius the Roman historian Tomyris was Scythian
@@scienceandfuturetech4707 , at that point, it's really splitting hairs, isn't it, Heroditus?!
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
@@ramtin5152 , that doesn't relegate her to "a myth". 🤣🤣😆
Why didn’t the Romans just conquer everything?!?!?!
Augustus : guys Enough
Didn't they conquer it in the end? We see at the end of the video Crimea is under Roman control.
It was technically a client kingdom named Bosporus, and they willingly decided to pay tribute to Rome in exchange for defense. The map is just lumping everything under direct Roman control
Not so much of why they "couldn't", rather why they "didn't"
New style maps aren't as clear as the old ones, knowledgia.
This video is terrible. The Scythians were never (or rarely) united as a single people they were scattered tribes
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)
If there was something worth conquering they would have tried
great vid
The Mongols: hold my airag
not Romania,at that time was called Dacia by Romans or Getia by Greeks
cool and very informative
Missed opportunity in the beginning to say: "More heads, more booty."
Conquer what? Tents?
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.
Damn there's some funny word use in this video.
I think about the Roman Empire like every day
Think of all the pasta they could have made with that wheat🌾
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.
This looks pretty amateur-ish, entry level stuff and explanations
The clouds make your maps difficult to decipher a majority of the time
The who? Never heard of them.
You forgot Armenia
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.
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
I cracked at Belaroo
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
Roman conquered trade routes and cities not grass and trees
Scythians controlled part of silk road though. And they had cities.
@@jothegreek Then wtf were they doing in Germania and Britannia ?
@@ramtin5152 trade routs
@@jothegreek No the Romans MADE those trade routes there
Those people were living in tribes like the Scythians
They didn't have a prosperous valuable civilization like Italian city states, Egyptians, Carthaginians, Greeks and Macedonians who were conquered by the Romans
@@ramtin5152 dude come to your sensezthere was trade between gaul Iberia and britain long before the romans
700,000 warriors was ALOT back then!
The reason why no Imperial Power ever Conquered the Steppe before the Russians is because the people living therein, were primarily Nomadic and did not dwell in Cities. Not in sufficiently significant numbers comparatively to actually make it Conquerable.