#sounds fake but the author of this book was pulling out receipts and quotes from Strabo and Herodotus and their ilk and idk enough about

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Reading History is so funny the ways contexts change. Anyways was anyone going to tell me the Greeks said Amazons invented iron and also pants (because pants were invented by the steppe nomads east of them for riding horses and women were very prominent in that culture, which is who the Greeks were talking about when they talked about Amazons) to the point where Greek men wouldn’t wear pants even when they borrowed other eastern Scythian fashions because pants were considered effeminate