Uighurs – Medieval Central Asia
Uighur princesses (Bezelik Cave) Who were the Uighurs? When the Turkic Gokturk Empire in Central Asia collapsed in 742 AD, the Uighurs got their independence. Who were the Gokturks? More [...]
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Medieval Tibet – History of Central Asia
Medieval Tibet: Changzhug Monastery, Tibet (600s AD) Where is Tibet? Tibet lies between India and China, just north of the Himalaya Mountains. People have been living in Tibet since about [...]
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Sogdians in China – History of Central Asia
Sogdian traders in China about 550 AD (Musee Guimet) Sogdians and the Silk Road Even after the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Sogdians still controlled Silk Road trade between West [...]
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Sogdians and the Silk Road – Central Asia
Gold coin from Sogdiana in the Hellenistic period The Sogdians meet Alexander Then in 328 or 327 BC the Macedonian conqueror Alexander conquered the Sogdians. Earlier Sogdian history Alexander the Great [...]
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Sogdians – History of Central Asia
Sogdians: A horse-drawn chariot from the Oxus Treasure (British Museum, thanks to Mary Harrsch) Where did they come from? The Sogdians came to Sogdiana probably about 1500 BC. (That's modern [...]
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Samanids – History of Central Asia
The tomb of the Samanid rulers. Bukhara, Uzbekistan, about 900 AD. Who were the Samanids? The Samanids were people who lived in the easternmost part of the medieval Abbasid Empire. They [...]
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Rouran – Medieval Central Asia
Tomb of a Rouran princess, Yujiulu Chidilian, and her Chinese husband Xu Xianxiu, 550 AD. Yujiulu Chidilian died when she was 13 years old. About 300 AD, a group of [...]
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Genghis Khan and the Mongols – Central Asia
Genghis Khan Mongol and Turkic people take power By 1200 AD, the Mongol and Turkic people of Central Asia had pretty much finished pushing the Indo-Europeans out of power in [...]
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The Kyrgyz and Kyrgyzstan
Tash Rabat, Kyrgyzstan - a stop on the Silk Road (thanks Lonely Planet) Where are the Kyrgyz from? By about 200 BC, the Kyrgyz people were living north of China, [...]
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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 [...]
