History of Korea
History of Korea: Early Korean pottery Stone Age Korea The first modern people, and their dogs, probably reached Korea about 40,000 BC. Some of them came east across Central Asia [...]
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Mongols invade India – history of India
Mongke Khan The Ghaznavids come to India Starting in the 400s AD, Turkic and Mongol people had been expanding out of the northern part of Central Asia. They spread all over Europe [...]
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Who was Guanyin? Chinese god
The god Guanyin, from the Liao Dynasty (about 1000 AD) Guanyin and the underworld Guanyin was a Chinese Buddhist god based on a real woman, the way Guanti was based on [...]
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Song Dynasty China – Medieval China
Water-driven grain mill (Song Dynasty) from the Qingming Shang He Tu Northern Song Dynasty The first part of the Song Dynasty is called the Northern Song. In 960 AD, one [...]
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Epic of Manas – Central Asian stories
Uighur princesses (Bezelik Cave) Possibly some time in the Middle Ages, Kyrgyz people began telling the story of Manas, his son Semetei, and his grandson Seitek. In the first part [...]
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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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Khitan – History of Central Asia
Khitan history - a Khitan woman, ca. 1000 AD (Musee Guimet, Paris) Who are the Khitan? The Khitan are part of the big group of Turkic and Altaic language speakers [...]
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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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Central Asian Music
Chinese woman playing an erhu: early bowed instruments Plucking a hunting bow to make music Central Asia was the place where people invented the ancestors of violins and cellos. Siberian or Mongolian [...]
