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The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China 221 B.C. to AD 1757 (Studies in Social Discontinuity)

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Around 800 BC, the Eurasian steppe underwent a profound cultural transformation that used to be to shape world history for the following 2,500 years: the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Asia invented cavalry which, with the usage of the compound bow, gave them the means to terrorize first their neighbors and in the long run, under Chingis Khan and his descendants, the entire of Asia and Europe. Why and how they did so and to what effect are the themes of this history of the nomadic tribes of Inner Asia – the Mongols, Turks, Uighurs and others, collectively dubbed the Barbarians by the Chinese and the Europeans.

This two-thousand year history of the nomadic tribes is drawn from a variety of sources and told with unprecedented clarity and pace. The creator shows that to describe the tribes as barbaric is seriously to underestimate their complexity and underlying social stability. He argues that their relationship with the Chinese used to be as much symbiotic as parasitic and that they understood their dependence on a strong and settled Chinese state. He makes sense of the it sounds as if random upward push and fall of these mysterious, difficult to understand and fascinating nomad confederacies.

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