Cimmerian Culture Rises in Russia
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Technology, Inventions, Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Animals, Endangered Species, Zoology, Barbarians, Nomads, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: Women’s History, Russian/Former Soviet States History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Russia, Europe, Ukraine
- Date: c. 1000-c. 690
Article abstract: The nomadic Cimmerians, the first people to domesticate the horse and use it in warfare, arose in what would later become European Russia and the Ukraine.
Summary of Event
The Cimmerians were an early people whose existence is shrouded in myth and legend. In the eighth century b.c.e., the Greek Homer referred to them in his epics as living in the far north, in perpetual darkness. This may have been the ancient Greeks’ way of attempting to describe the peculiar patterns of night and day near the Arctic Circle, where the sun barely sets...
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