steppe

Examples of steppe in the following topics:

• Temperate Grasslands

  • Temperate grasslands are found throughout central North America, where they are also known as prairies, and within Eurasia, where they are known as steppes .

• Overview of the Mongol Empire

  • The Mongol Empire began in the Central Asian steppes and lasted throughout the 13th and 14th centuries.
  • This route allowed commodities such as silk, pepper, cinnamon, precious stones, linen, and leather goods to travel between Europe, the Steppe, India, and China.

• The Silk Road

  • Emperor Wu repelled the invading barbarians (the Xiongnu, or Huns, a nomadic-pastoralist warrior people from the Eurasian steppe) and roughly doubled the size of the empire, claiming lands including Korea, Manchuria, and even part of Turkistan.

• Art of the Persian Empire

  • The style of the animals originated with the Scythians, who inhabited the Steppes of Russia.

• The Indo-Aryan Migration and the Vedic Period

  • It postulates that people of a so-called Kurgan Culture, a grouping of the Yamna or Pit Grave culture and its predecessors, of the Pontic Steppe were the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language.
  • According to this theory, these nomadic pastoralists expanded throughout the Pontic-Caspian steppe and into Eastern Europe by early 3000 BCE.

• The Mongal Invasions

  • Genghis Khan united the Mongol and Turkic tribes of the steppes and became Great Khan in 1206.
  • Khublai evoked his public image as a sage emperor by following the rituals of Confucian propriety and ancestor veneration, while simultaneously retaining his roots as a leader from the steppes.

• The East

  • The name Mughal is derived from the original homelands of the Timurids, the Central Asian steppes once conquered by Genghis Khan and hence known as Moghulistan, "Land of Mongols. " Although early Mughals spoke the Chagatai language and maintained some Turko-Mongol practices, they became essentially Persianized and transferred the Persian literary and high culture to India, thus forming the base for the Indo-Persian culture and the spread of Islam in South Asia.

• Microbes and Dairy Products

  • In the early twentieth century, the Nobel laureate in medicine, Elie Metchnikoff, believed that the longevity of peasants in Bulgaria and the Russian steppes was due to their high consumption of milk-fermented products.

• Plague

  • In the steppes, the reservoir species is believed to be principally the marmot.

• Buddhist Wall Paintings

  • In the year 480 CE, the Huns—nomadic-pastoralist warriors from the Eurasian steppe—launched an invasion of India, and by the year 500 CE, they had overrun the Gupta Empire.