8housesofelixir
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re:Saka, I've seen Iranian proposed as the identity of the Xiongnu, but it doesn't seem to be one of the more popular theories.
I mean, all the traditional Chinese sources explicitly said that Saizhong is not Xiongnu.

It seems to me that all the Eurasia steppe peoples can be roughly divided into Mongolians, Iranians, and Turkics (with the exception of Magyars? If we consider them as "steppe" nomads as well).
Interestingly, we have all of them in one Civ game currently (Mongolians, Scythians, Ottomans, Hungarians); maybe that is kind of a success already...