sarmatia

The Sarmatians had a pretty good run IOTL, but the Gothic ascendancy in the Black Sea area started a chain of events that resulted in their eventual Slavicization. Your challenge is to prevent this from happening and have them play a more dominant role as the Roman Empire declines. Bonus points...

Your challenge is pretty much what the title says: ensure the Scythians and Sarmatians survive for at least a while longer.

Now this timeline explores how & what impact there would be had "Scythians" or at least their descendants survived into the modern day. The point of divergences in this timeline comes in 1238 AD. In this timeline the Mongols convince the Alans to break their alliance with the Cumans & align...

From about 750 BCE to 3rd century CE, the Crimean peninsula was invaded and settled by Schytians/Sarmatians, an Iranic grop who held a vast territory from present-day Ukraine to Central Asia and the northwestern corner of the Indian subcontinent. What POD(s) should be needed to make Crimea...