Herodotus Histories

Herodotus was born in 485 BC in the Greek City of Halicarnassus and is known as the pioneer of history. His series of books, The Histories was the first piece of literature that described historical events. No writer had ever attempted to analyze events in history before Herodotus, he catalyzed the study of history and allowed scholars to have a deeper understanding of events in the world. The Histories was an account of the Greco-Persian wars, which was a series of wars between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states. Book IV highlights the Persian encounters with the Scythians and shows readers how history can be skewed based on how it was recorded as we see that Herodotus accounts of the Scythians were significantly exaggerated. The
This shows how Herodotus completely ignores the remarkable achievements and military tactics of the Scythians because of his bias beliefs. Herodotus makes the Scythians out to be unintelligent, however, this is not the case. The Scythians had a brilliant military tactic where they would ask neighboring countries to form alliances with them during times of war. If these countries would refuse to ally with the Scythians, during wartime due to the fact that they were nomadic, they would lead their enemies onto the grounds of their neighboring countries where those countries would end up fighting the Scythians enemy while the Scythians would not have to do anything. They applied this tactic during the Greco-Persian wars, they led the Persians into their neighboring countries land and would have the Persians fight those neighboring countries. This was extremely advantageous for the Scythians as they were able to lead the Persians into their neighboring countries which would wear out their military and waste their time as they only had 60 days. Because of this tactic, the Persians ultimately were forced to