Packet 4: Tossup 3

Golden vessels decorated by these people with an old man killing youths may depict the “Bastard Wars” between slaves and returning warriors. Black residue in those vessels suggest these people hot-boxed opium and cannabis in cleaning rituals run by androgynous priests called (-5[2])Anarya (15[1])after a king’s death. (15[1])The futility of invading these people (15[1])is shown when a hare distracts their entire army from a battle after refusing to fight for settlements like (*) Gelonus. In Book Four, (10[1])Herodotus foreshadows the invasion of Greece with Darius’s failed attack (10[2])on these people (10[4])using a bridge across the Ister. (10[1])These Iranian-speaking (10[1])people (10[4])were conquered (10[1])around (10[1])200 (-5[1])BC by the related Sarmatians (10[3])and used (10[1])Kurgan burials. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, name these Iron Age nomadic (10[1])people who settled the steppe north of the (10[1])Black Sea. (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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