The diverse peoples of the Central Asian Steppe The study goes even further, identifying at least two main sources of origin for the nomadic Iron Age groups. An eastern source likely originated from populations in the Altai Mountains that, during the course of the Iron Age, spread west and ...
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it expected the ruling groups or individuals to guarantee payment of tribute and generally deferential behaviour, but then the Athenian and Spartan empires expected the same of their dependents. The Athenians, at least, were strikingly realistic and undogmatic about not demanding regimes that resembled...
Interestingly, a similar pattern was observed in the Khitan and Mongol empires [5]. However, a lack of archaeological and ancient DNA studies on the sociocultural patterns (e.g., patrilocality or matrilocality; polygamy or polyandry) in the historical Hexi Corridor hindered our ability to ...
Asian CAST Coinage(4 viewing) 53872 Islamic includes Islamic Mongol Dynasties 61 Eastern Empires Bactria, Sassanian, and Others 70 OTHERS: Misc. & holding area 00 MEDIEVAL COINS(5 viewing) ~ 500-1500 A.D. 175152 Western Europe(2 viewing) ...
Water tunnels are one of the oldest hydro-technologies for extracting water resources and/or transmitting them through water distribution systems. In the past, human societies have used tunneling for various purposes, including development, as a measure
Beginning in the 19th century, some Persian territory was lost to the advancing Russian and British empires, which secured preferential treatment for their products and merchants, dominating the internal market. Export crops replaced subsistence crops, and Iran entered the new world system of capitalist...
In contrast to other empires, the Persians were tolerant of the religions of the dominated. In no place did they impose by force their religion or their gods. This is not due to their political ability, but to their religious conceptions. This is found gathered in the Avesta, the sacred ...
(redacted fifth to sixth centuries AD, with additional editing until the early seventh century) indicate cultivation in Sasanian Iraq. These and other historical sources attest to rice cultivation in different parts of the Sassanid and Byzantine empires of Late Antiquity before the Islamization of ...