Eastern steppe
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Technology · The Tagar culture supplants Karasuk in the Minusinsk region; beyond it the Early Nomads, equestrian pastoralists of probable Scytho-Saka origin organised in tribal unions, and the coming of iron to the region
Western steppe
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Culture · The Scythians, coming from the east, take the western steppe from the Cimmerians in the late ninth or early eighth century and soon raid the Near East
