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700 BCE - 300 BCE: Scythians dominate the western Asian steppes.
612 BCE: Nineveh is sacked and burned by combined forces of Babylonians and Medes.
520 BCE: Darius I of Persia fights the Scythians (not very successfully).
513 BCE - 512 BCE: Darius I of Persia campaigns against Scythians into European Scythia, past the Danube River, Scythians refuse to fight and Darius is forced to abandon the campaign due to lack of provisions.
342 BCE: Philip II leads a military expedition against the Scythians.
339 BCE: Philip II of Macedon fights the Scythians.
329 BCE: Alexander the Great wins a decisive battle at the Iaxartes river against the Scythians.
300 BCE: Sarmatians conquer the Scythians.