Ancient peoples Ancient peoples Abashevo culture is a later bronze age (ca. 17th–16th centuries BC) archaeological culture found in the valleys of the Volga and Kama River north of the Samara bend and into the southern Ural Mountains. It receives its name from a village of Abashevo in Chuvashia. Artifacts are kurgans and remnants of settlements. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abashevo culture"
The Achaeans (also Akhaians, Greek Αχαιοί) is the collective name given to the Greek forces in Homer's Iliad. An alternative name, used interchangeably, is Danaans. More specifically, Achaea in Homer is the province of Agamemnon, chief commander of the Greek forces, the northern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, roughly corresponding to the modern prefectures of Achaea and Corinth. The Homeric Achaeans would have been a part of the Mycenaean civilization that dominated Greece from ca. 1600 BC, with a history as a tribe that may have gone back to the prehistoric Hellenic immigration in the late 3rd millennium BC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Achaeans"
The Roman historian Tacitus in his book Germania describes a people known as the Aesti or Aestii. According to his account, the Aesti speak a language related to that spoken in Britain. They worship a deity known as the 'mother of the gods', as well as the wild boar commonly found in the region; for weapons they use wooden clubs and occasionally iron implements. They are also the only people to gather and trade amber. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aesti"
Afanasevo culture, 3500—2500 BC, an archaeological culture of the late copper and early bronze age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afanasevo culture"
Airgialla (dervied from Irish orgialla meaning "hostage of gold"; also Airgialla, Uriel, Orial, Orgialla, Orgiall, Oryallia, Ergallia) was an ancient Irish kingdom. ...more on Wikipedia about "Airgialla"
The Mathura Lion Capital Inscriptions discovered in 1896 from Saptarsi mound in the south-eastern part of Mathura city in Uttar Pradesh, India presently housed in the British Museum London, contains an epigraph in Kharoshthi characters, which refers to princess Aiyasi Kamuia as the chief queen (Agra-Mahisi) of Mahakshatrapa Rajuvula. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aiyasi Kamuia"
The Alans, Alani, Alauni or Halani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of mixed backgrounds, who spoke an Iranian language and shared, in a broad sense, a common culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alans"
The Allobroges (sometimes spelt as allobrogs) were a warlike Celtic tribe in Gaul located between the Rhône River and the Lake of Geneva in what later became Savoy, Dauphiné, and Vivarais. Their cities were in areas of modern-day Lyon, Saint-Etienne and Grenoble and the modern departement of Isère and in the modern Switzerland. Their capital was todays Vienne. ...more on Wikipedia about "Allobroges"
The tribe of the Ambrones appears briefly in the sources relating to the 2nd century BC, splashes meteorically across the pages of Roman history, and just as quickly disappears. Their location at the beginning of their brief history was the coast of north Europe, north of the Rhinemouth, in the Frisian Islands, the region now occupied by what is left of the Zuider Zee, and Jutland, which they shared with their close neighbors, the Cimbri and the Teutones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ambrones"
Ammon or Ammonites (עַמּוֹן "People", Standard Hebrew ʻAmmon, Tiberian Hebrew ʻAmmôn), also referred to in the Bible as the "children of Ammon," were a people living east of the Jordan river, who along with the Moabites traced their origin to Lot, the nephew of the patriarch Abraham, and who were regarded as close relatives of the Israelites and Edomites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ammon"
Ancalites refers to a Celtic tribe living in and around the Thames Valley area. There is little evidence for their ever having existed, beyond the writings of Julius Caesar's " De Bello Gallico" ( The Gallic War) ** ]. There is some small evidence that the Ancalites inhabited the area around Henley, Oxfordshire; http://historion.net/e.conybeare-early-britain-roman-britain/page-31.html, and the Wiltshire tourist board claim them amongst their own ethnic ancestory, which would significantly increase their territory, but without . ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancalites"
Ancient Hawaiʻi refers to the period of Hawaiian history preceding the unification of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha the Great in 1810. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient Hawaii"
Ancient India and Central Asia have long traditions of socio-cultural, political and economic contact since remote antiquity. The two regions have common and contiguous borders, climatic continuity, similar geographical features and geo-cultural affinity. There has always been uninterrupted flow of men, material and the ideas between the two. So much so, some ancient literary sources trace common lineage for Indians, Iranians and other nationalities of Central Asia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient India and Central Asia"
As is the case with most modern nations, Irish people descend from a great number of Ancient Irish Peoples, most of whom have with the passage of time being utterly forgotten except by historians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient Irish peoples" Go crack a shortopedia!
Ancient Pueblo People, or Ancestral Puebloans is a preferred term for the cultural group of people often known as Anasazi who are the ancestors of the modern Pueblo peoples. The ancestral Puebloans were a prehistoric Native American civilization centered around the present-day Four Corners area of the Southwest United States. Archaeologists still debate when a distinct culture emerged, but the current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around 1200 B.C., the Basketmaker II Era. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient Pueblo Peoples"
Androphagi (Greek for "man-eaters") was an ancient nation of cannibals north of Scythia (according to Herodotus), probably in the forests between the upper waters of the Dnepr and Don. ...more on Wikipedia about "Androphagi"
Appenine is an early Bronze Age culture in Italy dating from around 1350 to 1150 B.C. Also spelled Apennine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Appenine"
According to a theory forwarded by Jahanshah Derakhshani (born 1944), the Aratti, or Artaioi, were ancient Aryan people in the eastern lands of the Iranian Plateau. Ca. 1000 BC, the Aratti moved southwest to Persis and became the direct ancestors of the Persians. Until the Macedonian conquest of Persia, the Persians were known as Artaioi. Herodotus (7:61) mentions Artaians as an alternative name for the Persians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aratti theory"
The Arimaspi of northern Scythia, perhaps in the foothills of the Carpathians, were so utterly legendary to Greek writers that it was said they had a single eye in the center of their foreheads. They were said to steal gold from the griffins, causing battles between the two groups. All tales of their struggles with the gold-guarding griffins in the Hyperborean lands near the cave of Boreas, the North Wind (Geskleithron), had their origin in Arimaspea, the lost archaic poem of Aristeas of Proconnesus. Proconnesus is a small island in the Sea of Marmora near the mouth of the Black Sea, well situated for hearing travellers' tales of regions far north of the Black Sea. Battles between griffons and warriors in Scythian tunics and leggings were a theme for Greek vase-painters, and the few Arimaspian details were eagerly reported by Herodotus and Strabo and in Pliny's Natural History. Spiritual descendents of the one-eyed Arimaspi of Central Asia may be found in the decorative borderlands of medieval maps and in the montrous imagery of Hieronymus Bosch. Herodotus recorded a detail recalled from Arimaspea that may have a core in fact: "the Issedones were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspoi, and the Scythians by the Issedones" (iv.13.1). But Herodotus also admitted the fantastic allure of the edges of the known world: "The most outlying lands, though, as they enclose and wholly surround all the rest of the world, are likely to have those things which we think the finest and the rarest." (Histories iii.116.1) Only the gold may be said to have been real, the Encyclopaedia Britannica observed, but the "sp" in the name—"the Scythian name, Arimaspoi; for in the Skythian tongue 'arima' is one, and 'spou' is the eye."— suggests that it was mediated through Iranian sources to Greek (compare Hytaspes). The Arimaspians were the Huns, most likely. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arimaspi"
The Armenians are a nation and an ethnic group, originating in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor. A large concentration remain there, especially in Armenia, but almost as many are scattered elsewhere throughout the world (see Armenian Diaspora). ...more on Wikipedia about "Armenians"
Arta (or Artas in Kharoshthi) was the elder brother of the well known Gandhara ruler Maues or Moga (Dr Stein Konow, Dr R. K. Mukerjee, Dr J. L. Kamboj). ...more on Wikipedia about "Arta Kamuia" shortopedia - now!
The Arverni were a Gallic tribe that inhabited the present-day region of Lyons, France. They gave their name to the French region of Auvergne. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arverni"
Aryan is an English word derived from the Indian Vedic Sanskrit & Iranian Avestan. terms ari-, arya-, ārya-, and/or the extended form aryāna-. The Indian Sanskrit language & Old Persian language both pronounced the word as arya-. Beyond its use as the ethnic self-designation of the Proto-Indo-Iranians, the meaning "noble" has been attached to it in Sanskrit. During the 19th century, following Max Müller's ' Aryan invasion theory', the term gained an added meaning, being used in the West to refer to what are now called the ' Proto-Indo-Europeans', and, by extension, to the Indo-European speaking peoples as a whole. In linguistics, the term Aryan currently refers only to the Indo-Iranian language sub-family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aryan"
Aryenis of Lydia was the daughter of King Alyattes of Lydia, the sister of King Croesus of Lydia, the wife of King Astyages of Media, the mother of Mandane of Media, and grandmother of Cyrus II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aryenis"
The Ashvakas are very ancient people of north-east Afghanistan. They find mention in the Puranas, Mahabharata and other ancient Sanskrit and Pali literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ashvakas" http://www.shortopedia.com moments. Ancient_peoples
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