Others selecting sunny and fertile valleys, scattered their seed and cultivated the soil.

Thus the Scythians were divided into two quite distinct classes, the herdsmen and the laborers.
The tribes who then peopled the vast wilds of northern Europe and Asia, though almost innumerable, and of different languages and customs, were all called, by the Greeks, Scythians, as we have given the general name of Indians to all the tribes who formerly ranged the forests of North America.

The Scythians were as ferocious a race as earth has ever known.

They drank the blood of their enemies; tanned their skins for garments; used their skulls for drinking cups; and worshiped a sword as the image or emblem of their favorite deity, the God of War.

Philip of Macedon was the first who put any check upon their proud spirit.