Challenge: Preserve the Amazons

Yes, the Amazons. Their culture, specifically the female domination supposedly aspect of it, must survive to the present day. Not only that, but it must continue to be dominant in the countries they would've been in OTL. Now, GO! Show me that it can be done!
 
The article doesn't necessarily prove or even suggest that they surely existed, there is no reliable historiographical record suggesting that they did, and people who do think they existed placed them in a variety of wildly different regions. That's no basis for an ATL.
 
Ah, okay. Well, please delete. Sorry about this one. Okay, as for that one, just suggested they may, but I was hoping someone would come that maybe had more evidence. Oh well.
 
The Amazons were Sarmatians and Scythians but not really a cultural group because they allowed women to work like men.
 
The Amazons were Sarmatians and Scythians but not really a cultural group because they allowed women to work like men.

The closest parallel we have in relatively modern times has been the Mino, the all-female 'regiment' of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

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

Originally wives of the King who were trained as bodyguards, they were expanded until they numbered one third of the approximately five thousand troops in the Dahomeyan army.

Their misfortune was to run afoul of the French in the Second Franco-Dahomeyan War, during the course of which they were virtually wiped out.
 
Book Rec

You might find Lyn Webster Wilde's 'On the Trail of the Women Warrors' interesting. I'm sorry, I haven't read it myself so I can't say how good it is.
 
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