Were the Scythians important people? Kloe (12)

I’m not trying to get out of the answering the question (honest!) but I’m not sure how you define ‘important’. The Scythians were a nomadic people who, in the Iron Age were very successful as traders, were the first people to master mounted warfare and ended up with a vast empire that stretched from China to Siberia. So I suppose that they were important. But they are just one part of the history of the world which is a story of kingdoms and empires, of warfare and trade, of the rise and fall of cultures and civilisations. But I’m sure that those people who study the Scythians would argue that they are the most important people in history.