650-600 B.C. Those Israelites in Media became known as Scythians. The colony of Sacasene passed through the Dariel Pass in the Caucasus mountains and occupied the steppe regions of Southern Russia. The colony of Bactria retreated across the Jaxartes River eastward into Central Asia, some going east to near China. 600-500 B.C. Following the collapse of their Assyrian allies, the Scythians were driven north through the Caucasus by the Medes, and they settled in southern Russia. A rock-hewn inscription at Behistun. in Persia, shows the Persian equivalent for Gimira was Sakka, probably derived from Isaaca (house of Isaac) the name by which the Israelites called themselves (see Amos 7: 9, 16). Historians inform us that the people whom the Greeks called "Scythians" were called "Sacae" or "Sakka" by the Persians. The Greeks got the Scythian from the Assyrian "Iskuza", which is probably from Isaac.          During the fifth century B.C. the Scythian Israelites began moving across the rivers Don and Dnieper, thus coming into contact with the Cimmerian Israelites who had earlier migrated round the west of the Black Sea. Without knowledge of their kinship since it had been lost during the centuries of separation, battles ensued, forcing the Cimmerians west. Some moved away to the north-west into the sparsely inhabited regions around the Baltic, where they later became known, to the Romans, as Cimbri. The larger body of Cimmerians migrated, as scattered groups up the Danube River arriving near its source in south Germany about 600-500 B.C.and there they became known as "Celts" and "Gauls". They gave the lower Danube area the Celtic name "Ister", meaning lowness. 650-500 B.C. Cimmerians became known as Celts after they moved up the Danube located in Europe. 525-300 B.C. Ones driven out of south Russia by the Scythians moved north-west between the rivers Oder and Vistula to the Baltic, where they laterbecame known as Cimbri. Page 91

About 390 B.C. some of the Cimmerian Israelites swept into Italy and sacked Rome. About 280 B.C. others invaded Greece and as they migrated back into Asia Minor, they were named "Galatians" by the Greeks. However, most of them spread west and north across France and began crossing the English Channel into the Isles. Between 400 and 100 B.C. there was a Celtic expansion from central Europe and some attacked Rome in 390 b.c. and then settled for 200 years in northern Italy; others known as Galatians, after invading Greece in 279 b.c., migrated to Asia Minor. Most of them moved west into France and later to the British Isles.         From the fifth to the fourth century B.C. the Scythian Israelites established themselves in southern Russia as the great and prosperous kingdom of Scythia. They made close trade relations with the Greeks whom they supplied with grain. Towards the end of the third century, however, a non-Israelitish people, the Sarmatians swept into Southern Russia from the east and by the end of the second century B.C. they had occupied all the Carpathian regions and the Danube. Only two small pockets of Scythians were left on the shores of the Black Sea; one in the Crimea in what today is Ukraine and the other south of the Danube delta. Squeezed between Sarmatians and Celts the main body of Scythians were driven north-west, where they are later reported, by the Romans, as occupying the southern coast of the Baltic and North Seas. 250-100 B.C. From the east south Russia was invaded by the Sarmatians, who drove the Scythians north-west through Poland into Germany.          As the Sarmatian tribes moved into "Scythia" in southern Russia, there was a tendency to confuse them with the Scythians, but the Romans introduced the name "German" meaning genuine Scythians (germanus being Latin for genuine) and, except in outlying parts, the name Scythian was dropped in favor of Germans and Sarmatians. Still yet, the land south of the Baltic and eastern North Sea was continued to be called Scythia, and as late as A.D. 800 the Welsh historian Nennius called the home of the Anglo-Saxons, "Scythia". It is known that the Anglo-Saxons who came to Britain were called Germans by the Romans, and that the Normans, the last to arrive in A.D. 1066, were of the same stock. Just as the Scythians were driven west by the Sarmatians they themselves drove the Cimbri across the Rhine into France. The Cimbri in search of living space, went roaming and pillaging as far as Spain and Italy, but were almost entirely wiped out in battles with the Romans. One group did make it to northern Britain, by ships, and became known as the "Picts."