AHC: Create a Scythian State

The Scythians were noted for being a series of Tribes ruling over much of Central Asia, and had even created an Indo-Scythian Kingdom ruling over the remnants of former Greco-Baktria.

Your objective is, besides Indo-Scythia, create a Scythian state, transforming the Scythians from a nomadic federation to a sedentary Kingdom. Bonus points if said Kingdom rules over the perceived extent of Scythia.
 
If you want to try for a western approach instead, Scythia also was considered to extend through what is now southern Russia/Ukraine.

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In fact, the Polish Nobility for a while claimed to be the descendants of the Sarmatian branch of the Scythians. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatism

Perhaps we can have the Alans or some such Iranic people play the role of the Huns OTL and successfully set up a state in the Balkans or the Hungarian plains.
 
Are the Scythians still around by Augustus' time? I could see what I could do in my Caesar timeline...

If not, the Sarmatians will do too.
 
Are the Scythians still around by Augustus' time? I could see what I could do in my Caesar timeline...

If not, the Sarmatians will do too.

Well, they're part of a general swathe of Iranic peoples stretching east to central Asia and often collectively referred to as "Scythia" until rolled over by Huns, Alans, and Turkic peoples. But the people specifically referred to as Scythians were overrun by the Sarmatians by the second century BC.

Bruce
 
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