Herodotus wrote about how these people burned hemp and “howl[ed] in joy at the vapor-bath,” even though they never otherwise bathed. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these nomadic people who displaced the Cimmerians in the Pontic Steppe. About 20 percent of their “warrior graves” contain women.
ANSWER: Scythians [accept Sakas or Sakae or Massagetae]
[10m] The Scythian queen Tomyris allegedly shoved this king’s decapitated head into a bag of blood. This ruler titles a biography written by Xenophon.
ANSWER: Cyrus the Great [accept Cyrus II or Cyrus the Elder; prompt on Cyrus or Cyropaedia]
[10e] Scythians decorated their war horses with these objects. Henry Hamilton earned the nickname “hair-buyer general” for paying for these gruesome “trophies” removed from dead Native Americans.
ANSWER: scalps [accept scalping; prompt on skins or heads or top of someone’s head]
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