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Since the Paleolithic age, the Steppe Route has been the main overland route between Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, East Asia and South Asia economically, politically, and culturally. The Steppe route is a predecessor not only of the Silk Road , which developed during antiquity and the Middle Ages , but also of the Eurasian Land Bridge in ...
Central Asia is a region of varied geography, including high passes and mountains , vast deserts (Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan), and especially treeless, grassy steppes. The vast steppe areas of Central Asia are considered together with the steppes of Eastern Europe as a homogeneous geographical zone known as the Eurasian Steppe.
In the Steppes of Central Asia ( Russian: В Средней Азии, romanized : V Sredney Azii, lit. 'In Central Asia') is a symphonic poem (or "musical tableau") composed by Alexander Borodin in 1880, which he dedicated to Franz Liszt .
In physical geography, a steppe ( / stɛp /) is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes. [ 1] Steppe biomes may include: the montane grasslands and shrublands biome. the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome. the temperate grasslands, savannas, and ...
Homo sapiens reached Central Asia by 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. The Tibetan Plateau is thought to have been reached by 38,000 years ago. [7] [8] [9] The currently oldest modern human sample found in northern Central Asia, is a 45,000-year-old remain, which was genetically closest to ancient and modern East Asians, but his lineage died out quite early.
Nomadic empires, sometimes also called steppe empires, Central or Inner Asian empires, were the empires erected by the bow -wielding, horse -riding, nomadic people in the Eurasian Steppe, from classical antiquity ( Scythia) to the early modern era ( Dzungars ). They are the most prominent example of non- sedentary polities .
The Pontic–Caspian Steppe is a steppe extending across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, formed by the Caspian and Pontic steppes. It stretches from the northern shores of the Black Sea (the Pontus Euxinus of antiquity) to the northern area around the Caspian Sea, where it ends at the Ural-Caspian narrowing, which joins it with the Kazakh ...
Geography. "Central steppe" is an informal term for the middle part of the Eurasian steppe. It is grassland with some semi-desert and becomes dryer toward the south. On the east it is separated from Dzungaria and the eastern steppe by the low mountains along the current Chinese border. On the west it merges into the western steppe along the ...