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31 05, 2017

Central Asian games – wrestling, polo, archery

By |2017-09-18T11:19:19-07:00May 31st, 2017|Central Asia, Games|Comments Off on Central Asian games – wrestling, polo, archery

Wrestlers from Samarkand (Uzbekistan, 600s AD) People in Central Asia played games that helped them get better at skills they would need in their lives. They needed to ride horses [...]

31 05, 2017

Uzbeks – Uzbekistan and Central Asian History

By |2019-08-08T15:43:08-07:00May 31st, 2017|Central Asia, History|Comments Off on 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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