1 天前 · While Scythians (or "Hungarian Saka") harbored exclusively ancestry associated with Western Steppe Herders, Inner Asian Saka displayed additional Neolithic Iranian (BMAC) and Southern Siberian hunter-gatherer (represented through a proxy of modern Altaians) components in varying degrees.

2 天之前 · Originating in the central parts of the Eurasian Steppe, the Sarmatians formed part of the wider Scythian cultures. [3] They started migrating westward around the fourth and third centuries BC, coming to dominate the closely-related Scythians by 200 BC.

2025年1月24日 · China was then divided among warring states, and border principalities had to convert to cavalry tactics in order to mount successful defenses. The first state to do so developed its cavalry force only after 325 bce. Long before then, however, the Scythians had erected a loose confederacy that spanned all of the Western Steppe.

2025年1月11日 · At some point the Thracian cavalry adopted the Scythian cavalry wedge Wikipedia: Illyrian Warfare. I assume it was early. 540-525 BC. The Greeks viewed cavalry shields as a foreign innovation, specifically Thracian (Nefedkin, 2009; Webber, 2011). Thracians were known to fight on horseback using a light wicker pelta.

6 天之前 · On the left, opposite Alexander's right, had been posted the Scythian cavalry, about I,000 Bactrians and 100 scythe-bearing chariots. In front of Darius's royal squadron of cavalry stood the elephants and fifty chariots.

4 天之前 · The Cimmerian and Scythians movements into Anatolia and the Iranian Plateau would act as catalysts for the adoption of Eurasian nomadic military and equestrian equipments by various West Asian states: [84] it was during the 7th and 6th centuries BC that "Scythian-type" socketed arrowheads and sigmoid bows ideal for use by mounted warriors ...

2025年1月22日 · The service of Sarmatian cavalry, from the 2nd century until the 5th century and the Roman withdrawal from Britain, along with the deeds and exploits of Artorius, may have allowed his legend to grow and foster with each successive generation of Sarmatian 'colonists'.

1 天前 · Scythians, as depicted by themselves on a steel bowl found in a Scythian grave site near the Black Sea. Concerning the area in which the Amyrgians lived, one finds that the Persians and Greeks placed them beyond Sogdiana, across the Tanais River or the Jaxartes, because they encountered them after crossing Sogdiana and the Syr Darya in the ...

23 小时之前 · Between 3500 and 3000 BCE, horseback warfare did not yet exist. The Proto-Indo-Europeans used longbows with stone arrowheads, which were difficult to use from horseback. The concept of organized cavalry only emerged much later, around 1000 BCE. The Proto-Indo-European warrior culture revolved around individual achievements and heroism.

2025年1月7日 · The Byzantines wanted, according to John Haldon, a force of heavy infantry to work with heavy cavalry in a strong, but flexible and maneuverable, style of warfare. The Varangians fit the role of heavy infantry perfectly. Armed with Byzantine armor and their own Nordic weaponry, including fine swords, Danish axes and various polearms, the ...