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primitive communal system.

THEME 2. Ancient peoples and early state system formations
on the territory of Ukraine.

~9th-7th The Cimmerians:
centuries B.C. 1) the first people of Ukraine whose name
was recorded in written sources. Herodotus,
Ptolemy, Straton, the ancient historians,
affirmed that they lived in the Northern Black
Sea Littoral (from the Don river to the
Dniester river) before the Scythians came;
2) the Cimmerians were Iranian-speaking
people who came from the East;
3) they brought the technology of iron melting
to the territory of Ukraine;
4) the basis of agriculture was represented by
nomadic and half-nomadic cattle breeding.
Due to this fact their settlements were of
short-term origin;
5) ceramics manufacture reached a high level,
various tableware with polished surface and
decorated with geometric ornament is worth
attention;
6) numerous war marches aiming at getting
spoils took place;
7) they were forced out from the Northern
Black Sea Littoral by the Scythians; the part
of them roamed to another place, others
assimilated.
~7th-3d The Scythians:
centuries B.C. 1) Iranian-speaking tribes intruded into the
Northern Black Sea Littoral from the heart of

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