The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. Volume 4, the medieval world.

Episode 23, the Kervyn Rose. Oh, you know, now. Now, you know,

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uh... uh... Oh, oh, oh, oh, The The story of the migration of the Kyiv and Roos is the story of a migration of peoples probably of Scandinavian origin, settling the lands in and around the modern city

of Kyiv in Ukraine. But of course there was activity in this area before the arrival of the

Scandinavian migrants and so it would be correct for us to discuss exactly what

was going on there. You may recall that when we originally spoke of the

Sidians we always have to be very careful to state exactly what we are referring to. The Sidians were a group

of tribal nomads who occupied the Pontic-Caspian step in the times of classical antiquity.

But the term Citian can also refer to a wider culture of peoples who occupied Eurasian steplands throughout the first millennium

B.C. E. one group of peoples who lived to the west of the Scythian tribes, but who are referred to as being

linked to Scythian culture are the Simerians, who occupied lands in and around the NEPA River.

The Simerians and the Scythians are recorded as aggressors towards the northern frontiers of the Assyrian Empire

during the first half of the first millennium, B.C.E. which didn't do the Assyrians any favors when it came to defending

their territory against the advances of the Meads and the Babylonians.

The Simerians disappear from history around the middle of the first millennium

B.C. E. but the Scythian peoples remained as apparent as ever, possibly displacing the Simurians

around the lands of the NEPA.

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