AH Challenge: Thriving Amazon Society in Classical Times

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First Choice

The home of the warlike Amazons was never a fantasy world for the ancient Greeks, but was quite definite. It was the country at the mouth of the river Thermodon in Northern Turkey. Today the name of this river is rather the same - Terme Çay.

For Caucasian Amazon Empire
With a POD set around 800 B.C.: Basically stating if fairy primitive female society of Northen Turkey became more adapted an didnot die out and matured much as The Minoan-Myceanaen Civilizations did. Points shall be awarded for

-Plausibility
-The length of the society's existance (the longer the better)
-The power and influence of the society.

Second Choice

though most of the ancient Greek writers report on the Amazons that they once had lived at the river Thermodon in Northern Turkey, beside it there is a tradition that Amazons once had existed in Libya in Northern Africa.In the infertile country at the Hoggar mountains deep in the Sahara desert there live the last remains of the Tuareg people.

For African Amazons

With an POD set aroud 800 B.C., That Bascically states WI: The Taureg/Berber Women would had established an powerful civilaztion in north Africa that would almost rival The splendour of Egypt and other East african Kingdoms. Points shall be Awarded For.

-Plausibility
-The length of the society's existance (the longer the better)
-The power and influence of the society.

For further Information on Amazon Research....go to these links. http://www.net4you.co.at/users/poellauerg/Amazons/ and http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/1582/amazons.html are pretty helpful.
 

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Here are some replies to an simmalar thread at yahoo groups to give yall some ideas.

From: "Henrik Krog" <krigermis@h...>
Date: Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:25 am
Subject: RE: [alternate-history] Re: AH Challenege: Thriving Amazonian Empire in classical Times


>From: "H. Torrance Griffin" <htgriffin@y...>

>Of course rumour has it that some migrated east to the fringes of
>Tibet (modern Qinghai provence) ^_-

The Kazakh minority there, or some of the minor Mongol groups, the Tukulor
fex?

Henrik

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From: "Mr. Destiny" <cisoard@g...>
Date: Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:06 pm
Subject: Re: [alternate-history] AH Challenege: Thriving Amazonian Empire in classical Times


I'm curious: why did they die out? Invasions? Famine?
Unsustainability? Assimilation? I would assume they weren't an
all-woman civilization, but rather a matriarchal society. If so, thier
growth might be impeded by surrounding patriarchal societies.


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IIRC the last one. According to many historical accounts of
reasonable reliability the Scythians that has absorbed them turned
out rather egalitarian even by horse nomad standards (which were a
vast improvement over those of contemperary settled folk like the
Greeks).

Of course rumour has it that some migrated east to the fringes of
Tibet (modern Qinghai provence) ^_-
 

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Here are some maps I found If annyone is Intrested.

aretias.JPG
 

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The homeland of the Libyan Amazons
The original homeland of the Libyan Amazon was at Lake Tritonis. This Lake Tritonis is most probably identical with today's Chott Djerid in South Tunisia.

tunisia.JPG
 
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