Scythian culture was Turkic

[Morgoth]

To miss this entirely, with images, data and culture groups is unforgivable. I am refunding this game since Paradox has fallen so low in research and historical authenticity.

Next you'll start telling us Swedes are of Somali culture.

[Mr.Freud]

WTF are u on drugs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians

[Belgian Problem]

Imagine refunding a game because of this.

[Janissary_ML]

Doktor adamsın. Helal sana

[Captain_Narol]

OP is totally wrong, Scythians belonged to the Iranic branch of Indo-Europeans, they were definitely not turkish.

Learn your history before you post stuff like that, please guys.

[Benjin]

Wrong.

[Kinja]

What are you talking about? The proto-turkic people were still somewhere in the lands of modern day Manchuria at the time this game takes place. They only started migrating towards the west in the 6th century, that's almost 800 years after the year this game starts in.

The Scythians were Eurasian nomads.

What they got wrong was giving Dacians, Getians and the other tribes in the area Greek military traditions. They didn't fight using the phalanx.

[Emperor_Peter]

Originally posted by DoctorLove:

To miss this entirely, with images, data and culture groups is unforgivable. I am refunding this game since Paradox has fallen so low in research and historical authenticity.

Next you'll start telling us Swedes are of Somali culture.

You do know how the date system of this game is set up, right?

[Morgoth]

Originally posted by Mr. Freud:

WTF are u on drugs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians

Wikipedia is written by Persian diaspora 90% of the time. Scythians are Turkic, even Tomrys is the feminine form of the word Temir (Demir) = Iron.

Even the Shahname depict the Scythians (Saka) as Turkic, related to Afrasiyab, the Iranian name for Alp Er Tunga, the founder of the Turkic clans, the first Turk in written history, considered the grandfather of Tomrys.

Yada yada yada, read books Paradox.

[Scott]

Originally posted by Kinja:

What they got wrong was giving Dacians, Getians and the other tribes in the area Greek military traditions. They didn't fight using the phalanx.

My guess is this will get fixed in a future DLC. That seems to be PDX's MO these days.

[Janissary_ML]

Do not racism. The doctor says the truth.

[Mr.Freud]

ok, even native Americans are turkic. Aliens are turkic. Transformers turkic. We all turkic deep inside.

[SuperJew]

Scythians are indeed Turkic, but what can you expect from Paradox? Their lack of history knowledge is only matched by their lack of beta testing.

[Captain_Narol]

You're victim of Nationalistic Revisionism.

All serious archeological books consider that Scythians are Indo-Europeans and not Turkish, it's not just Paradox and Wikipedia.

Next you'll tell us that the Armenian Genocide did not happen and that Gaz Chambers didn't existed in Germany.

[SuperJew]

Originally posted by Captain_Narol:

You're victim of Nationalistic Revisionism.

All serious archeological books consider that Scythians are Indo-Europeans and not Turkish, it's not just Paradox and Wikipedia.

Next you'll tell us that the Armenian Genocide did not happen and that Gaz Chambers didn't existed in Germany.

Why are you dabbling in demagogy? Make your case and stop using ad hominems like a brainlet.

Most respected historians and orientalists from Peter B. Golden to László Rásonyi consider Scythians Turkic in language, religion and most likely culture.

[Janissary_ML]

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