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...peoples ancient Greece called "barbarian," none were more formidable than the Scythians???the hairy, implacable nomads who ranged over the steppes of Central Asia and north of the Black Sea, in what is now Russia. Around 3200 B.C., on these grassy oceans, the horse was first tamed for riding, and the Scythians were the result of that profound change in man's mobility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold of the Nomads | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

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