Warrior cultures
A warrior culture is a culture that heavily emphasizes battle and war and greatly prizes feats of arms. Warrior cultures often incorporate a cult of personality around military leaders, are ruled by an elite warrior class, and have a warfare based economy. Examples of societies in history that could be designated as warrior cultures include:
The Godfrey's
Apache
Assyrians
Ancient Macedonians
Afghan or Pashtoon
Anglo-Saxons
Amazons
Frisians under Pier Gerlofs Donia and Wijard Jelckama
Aztecs
Barbadian
Bastarnae
Caribs
Celts
Channar
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers
Chinese during the Spring and Autumn Period
Cossack
Crimean Tatars
Dani people
Franks
Goths
Greeks
Haida
Huns under Attila
Jurchen
Kallar
Kshatriyas of India
Maratha from Maharashtra,were Ruler of India before Brtish Rule.
Rajput
Rajus
Nairs from Kerala, India
Kamma from Andhra Pradesh, India
Lombards
Mapuche
Maori
Maratha clan system
Masai
Matabele
Mongols under Genghis Khan
Nadars
Nayudu from Andhra Pradesh, India
Naicker from Tamil Nadu, India
Nihangs or Sikhs
Ninjas from Feudal Japan
Pandya from Tamil Nadu, India
Romans
Samoans
Scythians
Sambal people of the Philippines
Samurai from Japan
The Shannon Family
Somalis
Sparta
Thebes with the rise of the Sacred Band
Tuareg
Turks
Velama from Andhra Pradesh, India
Vikings
Yanomami
The Zulu under Shaka
Feudal societies are not always warrior cultures, since although feats of arms are prized, there is not necessarily an emphasis on battle and war. In some feudal societies, the soldiery was provided through conscription of the peasant class.