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Central Asia has been hugely shaped by many different cultural influences, primarily of Turkic, Iranian, Arab, and Mongolian people’s. The people of Turan struck fear among settled peoples for their brutal and efficient raids through their unmatched use of mounted archery. Horsemanship remained essential to controlling Central Asia well into the modern-period. Their power would stagnate, however, especially in relation to the meteoric rise of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent commercial and gunpowder revolutions in the Christian kingdoms of Europe. European Christians, in particular, would very soon begin to advance on the same Central Asians who had once subjugated them. In 1480, the Russian prince, Ivan III, cast out the Golden Horde, an offshoot of the Great Mongol Empire, and subsequently won de facto independence for Moscow. His grandson, the first Tsar Ivan the Terrible moved to conquer the horse lords; in 1552, he decisively conquered the Khanate of Kazan. Over 100 years of war between the two states had hitherto been insufficient to determine a winner. This made the subjugation of Kazan an, understandably, notable moment for contemporary geopolitics.
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0:00 Intro
1:26 Ivan The Terrible Paves The Way
5:12 The Kazakhs Lose Autonomy
11:38 The Kyrgyz Become The Next Victims
13:55 Silk Road Cities Fall Rapidly
Central Asia has been hugely shaped by many different cultural influences, primarily of Turkic, Iranian, Arab, and Mongolian people’s. The people of Turan struck fear among settled peoples for their brutal and efficient raids through their unmatched use of mounted archery. Horsemanship remained essential to controlling Central Asia well into the modern-period. Their power would stagnate, however, especially in relation to the meteoric rise of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent commercial and gunpowder revolutions in the Christian kingdoms of Europe. European Christians, in particular, would very soon begin to advance on the same Central Asians who had once subjugated them. In 1480, the Russian prince, Ivan III, cast out the Golden Horde, an offshoot of the Great Mongol Empire, and subsequently won de facto independence for Moscow. His grandson, the first Tsar Ivan the Terrible moved to conquer the horse lords; in 1552, he decisively conquered the Khanate of Kazan. Over 100 years of war between the two states had hitherto been insufficient to determine a winner. This made the subjugation of Kazan an, understandably, notable moment for contemporary geopolitics.
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Doug Maxwell - Arabian Nightfall (Sting):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bRzD...
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0:00 Intro
1:26 Ivan The Terrible Paves The Way
5:12 The Kazakhs Lose Autonomy
11:38 The Kyrgyz Become The Next Victims
13:55 Silk Road Cities Fall Rapidly
