This subject is one of my personal favorites, so I should really leave this nice documentary as an introduction and write about some of the literature and such later on. So, for now, I leave you to your viewing pleasure!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
From out the steppe...
One of the biggest factors in the political, social, cultural, economic and military development and historical narrative in all of Eurasia are the various waves of people coming out of the central steppe, bent on conquest, trade, colonization and new pastures. The ancient kings of the fertile crescent and China, the Romans and their subsequent inheritors, the Christian kingdoms and Islamic sultanates of medieval Europe and the Middle East and even Russian Communists would all face their wrath, and be left changed in the wake of contact.
This subject is one of my personal favorites, so I should really leave this nice documentary as an introduction and write about some of the literature and such later on. So, for now, I leave you to your viewing pleasure!
This subject is one of my personal favorites, so I should really leave this nice documentary as an introduction and write about some of the literature and such later on. So, for now, I leave you to your viewing pleasure!
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