AHC: Crimea remained Scythian/Sarmatian

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 remained predominantly/dominantly Scythian in language and culture, with possible assimilation of invaders during the Migration Era (including Alans from the Caucasus).
 
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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 remained predominantly/dominantly Scythian in language and culture, with possible assimilation of invaders during the Migration Era (including Alans from the Caucasus).

For a Sarmatian culture to survive the Migration period you need something like a civilization more sophisticated than steppe nomads to emerge around Crimea. Maybe some kind of roman colonization/urbanization of southern Ukraine in the early empire, maybe stimulated by new commerce land routes? A new Silk Road north of the Caspian sea?

Conversion to christianity would boost this Sarmatian civilization when the Roman world is busy with barbarians (Vth century)

Then again, you would have to face the Mongols anyway, you can't keep them away indefinitely. Maybe a Kievan Rus founded by already christianized Sarmatians from the South instead of pagan Swedes from Scandinavia?

Just some ideas, i don't know for the PODs
 
I could've sworn that the Crimean peninsula was ruled by the Greek kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, not the Scythians. Perhaps if they had conquered the Bosphoran Greeks and pulled a Parthia, abandoning their nomadic ways for a more sedentary lifestyle, they could've survived.
 
I could've sworn that the Crimean peninsula was ruled by the Greek kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, not the Scythians. Perhaps if they had conquered the Bosphoran Greeks and pulled a Parthia, abandoning their nomadic ways for a more sedentary lifestyle, they could've survived.

Not the entire peninsula; the patch of steppe in the middle has no classical-era Greek presense at all, and it remained pastureland into the late 18th c.
 
For a Sarmatian culture to survive the Migration period you need something like a civilization more sophisticated than steppe nomads to emerge around Crimea.
I'm thinking of a scenario where the Scythians were influenced by Greek traders (and even some Persians) from the Anatolian side of Black Sea coast through extended trade and intermarriage, especially among the upper class.

Is it plausible enough?
 
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