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14 09, 2017

Who were the Scythians? Central Asian history

By |2019-09-05T05:39:15-07:00September 14th, 2017|Central Asia|Comments Off on Who were the Scythians? Central Asian history

Scythian history: A Scythian milking a sheep (Tolstaja Mogila kurgan, Ukraine, 400 BC) Scythians lived in Central Asia The Scythians were a large group of loosely connected people who lived in [...]

11 09, 2017

Scythian art history – Central Asian art

By |2019-09-05T06:00:05-07:00September 11th, 2017|Central Asia|Comments Off on Scythian art history – Central Asian art

Scythian deer from about 700-500 B.C. It is made out of gold, and it's now in St. Petersburg. The Scythians were horse-riding nomads, who traveled around the western part of Central Asia taking care of [...]

10 09, 2017

Late Middle Ages timeline 1100-1500 AD

By |2020-01-13T04:51:00-08:00September 10th, 2017|Central Asia, History, When|Comments Off on Late Middle Ages timeline 1100-1500 AD

The Mongol court (1200s AD) - Late Middle Ages timeline The Little Ice Age After the warming trend of 1000 AD came a colder period around 1300 AD called the Little Ice Age. [...]

7 09, 2017

What is opium? World history of medicine and drugs

By |2017-09-07T09:33:48-07:00September 7th, 2017|Central Asia, Science|1 Comment

Opium poppy flower Opium comes from a kind of poppy flower. It evolved around 100 million years ago in West Asia and Central Asia. People probably realized as soon as they got to West Asia, about 60,000 [...]

22 08, 2017

What did Manichaeans believe? – Christianity

By |2019-12-02T08:47:59-08:00August 22nd, 2017|Religion, West Asia|Comments Off on What did Manichaeans believe? – Christianity

Manichaean painting (Turfan, western China, ca. 900s AD) - Who were the Manichaeans? The prophet Mani in the Sassanian Empire In the 300s and 400s AD many Christians turned to believing in [...]

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