sarmatians

Your challenge is to have the Samaritans and the Sarmatians somehow ally with each other. And yes, I fully admit that I mainly did this because of their very similar names.

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...

Now the title might be a bit misleading and so before you rant about how this is ASB etc. do let me explain my point. I am sure at least some of you would be aware of the Sarmatian idea of the Commonwealth period and so what if a sizeable Zoroastrian population is able to migrate and integrate a...