Lecturer: Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University. "Course no. 3830"--Container. Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-455).
Contents:
disc 18. Legacy of the steppes. The rise of the Steppe nomads -- disc 2. Early nomads and China ; The Han Emperors and Xiongnu at war -- disc 3. Scythians, Greeks, and Persians ; The Parthians -- disc 4. Kushans, Sacae, and the Silk Road ; Rome and the Sarmatians -- disc 5. Trade across the Tarim Basin ; Buddhism, Manichaeism, and Christianity -- disc 6. Rome and the Huns ; Attila the Hun, scourge of God -- disc 7. Sassanid Shahs and the Hephthalites ; The Turks : transformation of the steppes -- disc 8. Turkmen khagans and Tang emperors ; Avars, Bulgars, and Constantinople -- disc 9. Khazar khagans ; Pechengegs, Magyars, and Cumans -- disc 10. Islam and the Caliphate ; The clash between Turks and the Caliphate -- disc 11. Muslim merchants and mystics in Central Asia ; The rise of the Seljuk Turks -- disc 12. Turks in Anatolia and India ; The Sultans of Rūm -- disc 13. The Sultans of Delhi ; Manchurian warlords and Song emperors -- disc 14. The Mongols ; Conquests of Genghis Khan -- disc 15. Western Mongol expansion ; Mongol invasion of the Islamic world -- disc 16. Conquest of Song China ; Pax Mongolica and cultural exchange -- disc 17. Conversion and assimilation ; Tamerlane, prince of destruction -- disc 18. Bābur and Mughal India ; Legacy of the steppes.
Summary:
This course addresses three broad chronological spans. The first third of the course covers the nomadic steppe peoples from antiquity to 550 A.D., from their domestication of the horse through their interactions with the civilizations of China, the Near East, the Greeks, and Imperial Rome. The second third of the course deals with the early Middle Ages, a period of time that was dominated by the spread of the Turkish language across the steppe zones. The third component deals with the impact of the Mongols, which began in the 12th century and is still being felt today.
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