>DOUGH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians
ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people who had migrated from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia
They (the Mongols) attacked Rus', where they made great havoc, destroying cities and fortresses and slaughtering men; and they laid siege to Kiev, the capital of Rus'; after they had besieged the city for a long time, they took it and put the inhabitants to death. When we were journeying through that land we came across countless skulls and bones of dead men lying about on the ground. Kiev had been a very large and thickly populated town, but now it has been reduced almost to nothing, for there are at the present time scarce two hundred houses there and the inhabitants are kept in complete slavery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magi
Magi were priests in Zoroastrianism and the earlier religions of the western Iranians.
when the monster Dahāg, who is now bound in chains on Mount Damāvand, bursts free of his fetters at the end of the world, Kirsāsp will be resurrected (his corpse having been guarded from corruption) to destroy Dahāg and save the two thirds of the world that Dahāg has not devoured
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apadana_hoard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_coinage
The Persian daric was the first gold coin which, along with a similar silver coin, the siglos (shékel) represented the first bimetallic monetary standard.
that's bat soup
It has been contested whether or not the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, suspected as having ties with the COVID-19 outbreak, sold bat meat, where the meat is reportedly not a frequent food source in the city of Wuhan.
>The ship beneath you is not a toy, and sailing is not a game.