[topcat54]

Wikipedia has lot of issues, political battles rage on wikipedia, most of the information is control by lefties, not saying this has anything to do with liberalism, but I go with Chuck on this one, he may have his faults but his knowledge of ancient history is pretty darn good.

Poisoning the well. Do you have any reason to believe the items I quoted are historically inaccurate?

That aside, Chuck still doesn't demonstrate the clear and definite connection between the greek use of Scythian that Josephus was referencing, and the more modern use of the term that became a catch-all for more broad groups of peoples in certain places. He seems content with a rather simplistic view that the term Scythian has always meant the same thing, even over hundreds and thousands of years.

[Quix]

It’s a moot issue.

UTTERMOST NORTH settles it.

. . . for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

There’s a pile of evidence all indicating the same thing.

Of course, willful blindness tends to ignore whole libraries of evidence.