The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes Audiobook by Kenneth W. Harl

The lecture series, “The Barbarian Realms of the Steppes” is a remarkable check into the ancient nomadic Turco-Mongolian societies that live– and usually still live– on the steppes of Mongolia, Russia, China, Turkey, and also the Caucasus. The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes Audiobook by Kenneth W. Harl Free. Professor Kenneth W. Harl, a historian at Tulane College, takes you on a journey throughout the steppes of Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, China, and several other nations as well as right into the background and culture of nomadic teams such as the Mongols, the Huns, the Scythians, the Kushans, as well as numerous, lots of others. I was amazed at just how much we know regarding these various individuals, especially given the truth that a lot of these peoples did not leave any type of created documents till rather recently. In the very first disc, Professor Harl offers us a basic review of the background and also culture of the steppe individuals, past and present. Lecture 3 as well as 4 concentrate on the interaction of the different Turco-Mongolian nomadic peoples with the Chinese. Lecture 5 manage just how the Scythians (a group of Indo-Iranian peoples) connected with both the Greeks as well as the Persians. Lecture 6 is committed to the history and also society of an additional Iranian team, the Parthians. Lecture 7 concentrates on the Kushans, Sacae (a sub-group of the Scythians, who were known in old Indian resources as the Sakas or Shakas) and just how they traded on the well-known Silk Road (the course taken by both Europeans and Middle Easterners when they took a trip to China and India in order to participate in trade); an additional episode is committed to Rome’s conflict with the Sarmatians (a sub-group of the Scythians); Lecture 9 manage profession throughout the Tarim Basin; Lecture 10 talks about just how Buddhism, Christianity, as well as Manicheism (a Gnostic, dualistic religious beliefs of old Iran); Lectures 11 as well as 12 handle the Huns, lecture 12 concentrating on the life as well as career of Attila the Hun; Lecture 13 discuss the dispute between the Sassanid dynasty (the Second Persian Realm) and their conflict with the Hepthalites (an old nomadic group who stayed in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, India and China as well as that are thought to have been the ancestors of the Durrani (or Abdali) Pashtuns. Lecture 14 is dedicated to the Turks; lecture 15 talks about the interaction in between the Turkmens as well as the Tang Dynasty of China; Lecture 16 concentrates on the communications in between the Avars, the Bulgars as well as the Byzantines. Lecture 17 is committed to the Khazars; Lecture 19 discuss the Pechenegs, Magyars, as well as Cumans. The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes Audio Book Download. Lectures 19-24 talk about the spread of Islam among the steppe individuals, the Turks particularly, ending with the Turks’ conflict with Byzantium. Lecture 25 discuss the sultans of Delhi. Lecture 26 goes over the conflict in between Manchurian warlords and also the Song (or Sung) empire. The last 11 lectures discuss the Mongols. Lecture 27 as well as 28 speak about the society of the Mongols, and lecture 28 focuses specifically on the life as well as career of Genghis Khan. Lecture 29 discuss Western Mongolian growth, as well as lecture 30 discuss the Mongol intrusion of the Muslim globe. Lecture 31 talks about just how the Mongols dominated China during the duration of the Song (or Sung) empire, and lecture 32 goes over the “Pax Mongolica” (Mongol Tranquility), the period of family member security once the Mongols combined their power as well as how this facilitated trade and also the exchange of ideas. Lecture 33 talks about the Mongols’ conversion to Islam, and also lecture 34 goes over the life as well as work of the famous medieval Uzbek conqueror Timur-i-Lang (Tamerlane) (whose name, it must be noted, was Uzbek for ‘Timur the Lame’ since it was stated that he had actually been fired in the leg with an arrowhead after trying to take his neighbor’s lamb when he was a kid). The Last disc in the collection reviews the founding of the Mughal dynasty in India by Babur in 1526, as well as ultimately, the series finishes with a lecture summing up the course qualified “Legacy of the Steppes.”