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In the 4th century BC, the Athenian politician Aeschines referred to the Scythian ancestry of his opponent Demosthenes to attemp ...
At the same time, drawing on the Classical authors' lumping together of the ancient Celts and Scythians under the label of "Barb ...
Scythians at the Tomb of Ovid (c. 1640), by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld During the early modern era itself, colonial ethnographers ...
of "right old and rare" objects to Saint Petersburg in exchange for compensation, and the material thus obtained became the basi ...
Life restoration of Protoceratops Ancient Greek sculpture of a griffin The scholar Adrienne Mayor hypothesised over the course o ...
Archaeology Main article: Scythian culture Scythian defence line 339 BC reconstruction in Polgár, Hungary Scythian archaeology c ...
Germanic peoples Roman bronze statuette representing a Germanic man with his hair in a Suebian knot. Dating to the late 1st cent ...
constructed a long fortified border, the Limes Germanicus. From 166 to 180 CE, Rome was embroiled in a conflict against the Germ ...
Cimmerians The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic– Caspian steppe, pa ...
North Germanic Peoples Or Nordic People North Germanic peoples , commonly called Scandinavians ,[1] Nordic peoples [2] and in a ...
carriers of haplogroup I, the emergence of the Battle Axe culture in Scandinavia is characterized by the appearance of new linea ...
seafaring.[46] From a very early time, Germanic tribes are thought to have interacted with and possibly settled in the Baltic st ...
It is likely that Proto-Norse emerged as a separate Germanic dialect around the 1st century.[24] The ethnogenesis of the North G ...
followers were held. Merchants frequently operated through joint financial ventures, and some legal disputes were solved through ...
The Oseberg ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway By the 3rd century there seems to have been a disruption of trade, po ...
— Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet As early as the 6th century, the North Germanic tribes were actively engaged in naval raids on ...
larger than in previous centuries.[59][83] During this time the North Germanic peoples spoke Old Norse.[24][27][74][84] The Pira ...
Ruins of the Hvalsey Church at Hvalsey, Greenland The Swedes were particularly active in Eastern Europe, where they were known a ...
Later history A 19th-century Scandinavist poster image of (from left to right) Norwegian, Danish and Swedish soldiers joining ha ...
Italic People The Italic peoples were an ethnolinguistic group identified by their use of Italic languages, a branch of the Indo ...
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