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History of Uzbekistan, Primary History: Ethnic Structure, Independence, Economy, Government. Culture, a Travel Guide

History of Uzbekistan, Primary History: Ethnic Structure, Independence, Economy, Government. Culture, a Travel Guide

Bell, Brandon

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Biographies GeneralTravel GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1714643271
ISBN13: 9781714643271
Publisher: Blurb
Published: Sep 26 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
History of Uzbekistan, Primary History. Ethnic Structure, Independence, Economy, Government. Culture, a Travel Guide. The first people known to have occupied Central Asia were Iranian nomads who arrived from the northern grasslands of what is now Uzbekistan sometime in the first millennium. These nomads, who spoke Iranian dialects, settled in Central Asia and began to build an extensive irrigation system along the rivers of the region. At this time, cities such as Bukhoro (Bukhara) and Samarqand (Samarkand) began to appear as centers of government and culture. By the fifth century., the Bactrian, Soghdian, and Tokharian states dominated the region. As China began to develop its silk trade with the West, Iranian cities took advantage of this commerce by becoming centers of trade. Using an extensive network of cities and settlements in the province of Mawarannahr (a name given the region after the Arab conquest) in Uzbekistan and farther east in what is today China's Xinjiang Uygur Auton-omous Region, the Soghdian intermediaries became the wealthiest of these Iranian merchants. Because of this trade on what became known as the Silk Route, Bukhoro and Samarqand eventually became extremely wealthy cities, and at times Mawarannahr was one of the most influential and powerful Persian provinces of antiquity. The wealth of Mawarannahr was a constant magnet for invasions from the northern steppes and from China. Numerous intraregional wars were fought between Soghdian states and the other states in Mawarannahr, and the Persians and the Chinese were in perpetual conflict over the region. Alexander the Great conquered the region in, bringing it briefly under the control of his Macedonian Empire

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