What are some of your favorite obscure ethnicities in history, /his/?

>>2564912
Assyrians

>captures enemy soldiers
>blinds 9/10
>10th man leads them back to their towns and cities
>The blinded men have families and are taken care of
>the blinded soldiers become a heavy burden on their economy
>enemy pacified

>>2564912

Tocharians and basically anybody to do with the tarim basin.

Selknam

>>2564912
The Urartu culture.

>>2564941
Thought those were the Bulgars after Basil I?

>>2564912
sea people. hands down.

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>>2565354
you just cant deny their awesomeness.

>>2565354
>>2565359
They are mysterious.

Swedes. They say they used to be blond and shit but I say it's Nordicist propaganda.

Alans. They were superb cavalrymen and some of them accompanied the Germanic barbarians all the way to Gaul and Iberia.

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The Greco-Bactrians, Greeks and Hellenised natives in Central Asia, so famous for their horses that the Chinese were willing to go to war over them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom

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>>2567186
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayuan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Heavenly_Horses