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Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: James M. Volo
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543071733
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Languages : en
Pages : 174

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The Eurasian steppes have been described as "a great far-reaching solitude," but it has been the home of untold numbers of people for millennia. From the forested margins of Poland to the frozen deserts of Mongolia, from the scorching sands of Persia to the numbing wastes of Siberia, the horsemen of the steppes periodically overrode Europe for nine hundred years, conquered China, and spread their culture to India and the Middle East. These nomads formed themselves into moving empires, which for a few years dominated the surrounding trembling nations, and then vanished and melted away, seemingly leaving little trace of their existence other than a record of destruction. Such were the monarchies of the Huns, Tartars, and Avars; the Scythians, Alans, and Sarmatians; and the Seljuks, Parthians, and Mongols.

Author: Albert Seaton
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN: 9780370305349
Category : Cossacks
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Walter Ashlin Fairservis
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Category : Cossacks
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Albert Seaton
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ISBN: 9780870521416
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Walter Ashlin Fairservis
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Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Albert Seaton
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ISBN: 9785555814661
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Languages : en
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: David Mallegol
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479739618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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The Bronze Horsemen is a fictional novel that describes an actual bronze age group of people called the Botai (Bow-Tie). who dominated the steppes of southern Russia for 600 years. According to "Discover Magazine, Summer/2010 the Botai were very likely the first to capture and domesticate a horse. The characters and adventures are fiction as are the names of their leaders and the challenges they faced as they struggled to survive. Their fortunes changed when they tamed a horse. Being mounted gave the Botai an advantage over those who sought to destroy them and changed the world for thousands of years.

Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1934536695
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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From the Bronze Age through the Middle Ages, a network of trade and migration routes brought people from across Eurasia into contact. Their commerce included political, social, and artistic ideas, as well as material goods such as metals and textiles. Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research on the earliest trade and cultural interactions along these routes, mapping the spread and influence of Silk Road economies and social structures over time. This volume features contributions by renowned scholars uncovering new discoveries related to populations that lived in the Tarim Basin, the advanced state of textile manufacturing in the region, and the diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia. Other chapters include an analysis of the dispersal of languages across the Eurasian Steppe and a detailed examination of the domestication of the horse in the region. Contextualized with a foreword by Colin Renfrew and introduction by Victor Mair, Reconfiguring the Silk Road provides a new assessment of the intercultural evolution along the steppes and beyond. Contributors: David W. Anthony, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Dorcas R. Brown, Peter Brown, Michael D. Frachetti, Jane Hickman, Philip L. Kohl, Victor H. Mair, J. P. Mallory, Joseph G. Manning, Colin Renfrew.