Toregene and Kublai Khan – Mongol Empire History
Coin of Toregene Toregene ruled the Mongol Empire for five years. By then she was not in good health - she was about 55 years old. She passed on her [...]
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Who were the Jurchen? History of Central Asia
Jurchen history: A pottery vase from the Jin Dynasty, ca. 1200 AD (Musee Guimet, Paris) Where did the Jurchen come from? Unlike most of the people living in north Asia, [...]
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Scythians and Sogdians – Early Central Asia
Central Asian yurts Nomads were travelling around Central Asia probably by 50,000 BC or so. By 24,000 BC, if not earlier, these nomads had split into at least two different [...]
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Turks and Timur – Central Asian History
The Mongol court (1200s AD) Starting around 300 AD the Indo-Europeans in Central Asia began to lose ground to the Altaic people. The Altaic people divided into the Mongols and the [...]
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White Huns – Central Asian history
A White Hun coin In the 300s AD, the White Huns were living in the kingdom of the Rouran, in Central Asia north-west of China. Probably the White Huns were mostly [...]
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Who were the Gokturks? Central Asian History
The Gokturks: A Gokturk coin, about 576-600 AD (Kyrgyzstan museum) (compare to Sassanian and Byzantine coins of the same time) Bumin Qaghan beats the Rouran About 550 AD, Bumin Qaghan [...]
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Uzbeks – Uzbekistan and Central Asian History
Uzbek ruler in his yurt (1509, probably at Samarkand, in Uzbekistan) The Uzbek empire After the collapse of the Mongol Timur's empire in the 1400s AD, many smaller states replaced the [...]
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Later Uighurs – Central Asian History
Important to Uighur history: Yakub Beg Uighurs become independent After the collapse of the Mongol Empire about 1600 AD, the Uighurs regained their independence. Earlier Uighurs Who were the Mongols? [...]
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Russian Revolution – History of Russia
Lenin, a leader of the Russian Revolution What led to the Russian Revolution? By the late 1800s, after the Crimean War, people in Asia were looking at the new republican [...]
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Crimean War – History of Russia
British soldiers in the Crimean War After Catherine the Great When Catherine the Great died in 1796 AD, her son Paul became the czar of Russia. Who was Catherine? All [...]
