A History Of Russia Central Asia And Mongolia Vol 1 Inner Eurasia From Prehistory To The Mongol Empire Site

The book argues that the history of this vast region—from the Carpathian Mountains to the Pacific, and from the Siberian taiga to the Central Asian steppes—is defined by a singular, enduring struggle: the interaction between the "Ecological Frontier" of the forested north and the "Steppe Corridor" of the grasslands to the south. Volume 1 covers the trajectory from the Paleolithic era up to the height of the Mongol Empire in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The culmination of Volume 1 is the rise of the Mongol Empire, which Christian presents as the apex of Inner Eurasian political evolution. He argues that the Mongols did not represent a break from the past, but the perfection of the mobilization strategies first seen in the Xiongnu confederations. The book argues that the history of this

Drawing on the work of David Christian, this article explores the deep history of Inner Eurasia up to the 13th century. Inner Eurasia: From the Dawn of Time to the Mongol Storm He argues that the Mongols did not represent