Real-world analogy— Ethengar: horsemen of the Asian steppes (Huns, Mongols, Magyars, Turks, and so on). Heldann: medieval Iceland. Vestland, Ostland and Soderfjord: vikings. Darokin: Venice or Genoa in medieval Italy. Ylaruam: Arabic desert states or the Central Asian city-states of Pa...
The division of Eurasia into two continents has historical roots and these parts (East and West) have cultural, ethnic, and linguistic specifics. Asia comprises the territories of both fully recognized states and ones with limited recognition, as well as dependent territories of Asian and non-Asia...
The Byzantine Greeks refered to the tribes that arrived on the steppes of Eastern Europe in the 9th century as the "Oungroi," a name that was later Latinized to "Ungri" and which became "Hungari"; the name originally meant an "[alliance of] ten tribes"; the Hungarian name "Magyarorszag...
better known as steppe, the vastness of Kazakhstan is something one can only assimilate through a long train journey, in which, for several hours and even days, you go through a desert of unimaginable magnitude, only disturbed by tiny villages located in the middle of nowhere and the occasiona...
This is a trend which will last throughout global history, right up to the present day, as farmers push hunter-gatherers into ever smaller corners of the planet.Another notabledevelopmentat around this time is the domesticating of the horse, on the steppes north of the Black Sea. Modern scho...
Europe is the second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia). It occupies nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. The long processes of his
steppes. The Silk Road itself became a collective name for the general trade route that linked two ancient superpowers, the Romans and the Chinese. It is a long and winding route that spanned from Northwestern China all the way towards the West. This ancient route began in the ancient ...
The Steppe, belt of grassland that extends 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from Hungary in the west through Ukraine and Central Asia to Manchuria in the east. Mountain ranges interrupt the steppe, but horsemen could cross barriers easily and interact with peoples
much of the Gobi is not sandy desert but barerock. It is possible to drive over this surface by car for long distances in any direction: northward toward theAltaiandHangaynmountain ranges, eastward toward theDa Hinggan (Greater Khingan) Range, or southward toward the Bei Mountains andHuang He...
Amu Darya, one of the longest rivers of Central Asia. The Amu Darya was traditionally known to the Western world from Greek and Roman times as the Oxus and was called the Jayḥūn by the Arabs. It allegedly derives its present name from the city of