On these links u might find interesting facts and knowledge about who the Amazons really were and what made them to become so renowned all around the world:

Also on those pages u might find interesting names and background info on your chars history that u might wish to use ingame or include into the "Role-playing" part for your characters, or even find yourself a nice avatar for the forum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons

http://www.paleothea.com/amazons.html

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/AMAZONS.html

On this page u also find a variety of topics related with the phenomen of the Amazon, check it out for more info: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~thomas/lists/amazon-connection.html

Or...if your needs are still not satisfied...just check out google and enter "Amazons"...you'll get tons of websites relating to this topic as it really was and now again is :-) one famous tribe of Warriors...