Round 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 Anarya after a king’s death. The futility of invading these people is shown when a hare distracts their entire army from a battle after refusing to fight for settlements like (*) Gelonus. In Book Four, Herodotus foreshadows the invasion of Greece with Darius’s failed attack on these people using a bridge across the Ister. These Iranian-speaking people (10[1])were conquered (10[1])around 200 BC by the related Sarmatians and used Kurgan burials. For 10 points, name these Iron Age nomadic people who settled the steppe north of the Black Sea. ■END■

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