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[[Kazakhstan]], the largest country of the [[Eurasian Steppe]], has been a historical "crossroads" and home to ...l period]] (12,500 to 5,000 years ago), human settlement spread across the country and led to the extinction of the [[mammoth]] and the [[woolly rhinoceros]].

...ian Steppe|steppe]] people mentioned in [[China|Chinese]] records from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD. ...veral centuries. Pressured by the [[Rouran]], the Wusun are last mentioned by the Chinese as having settled the [[Pamir Mountains]] in the 5th century AD

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...$600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes.<ref>Berk.</ref> ...ic thoroughfare, but a general route used by traders to travel, much of it by land, between the two continents along the [[Eurasian Steppe]]s through Cen

...vince, China, [[History of the Han Dynasty|dated to the Western Han Era]], 2nd century BCE]] ...<ref name="ball 2016 p156"/> The first book entitled ''The Silk Road'' was by Swedish geographer [[Sven Hedin]] in 1938.<ref name="ball 2016 p156"/> The

...the great [[plateau]] of Mongolia, the transition being effected gradually by means of several minor plateaus, such as [[Ukok plateau|Ukok]] (2,380 m) wi ...Dorgon Lake|Dorgon]] and [[Khar Lake (Khovd)|Khar]] 1,170 m, and traversed by various [[mountain range]]s, of which the principal are the [[Tannu-Ola Mou

...s|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706163803/http://belstat.gov.by/homep/en/census/2009/main.php|archivedate=6 July 2011}}</ref> ...sis/e/bevoe/bevoetab10.htm|title=Foreign population on 31 December 2004 by country of origin|date=24 January 2006|accessdate=5 August 2007|work=Federal Statis

...State Statistics Committee of Ukraine: The distribution of the population by nationality and mother tongue]</ref> ...tem of government. In the 13th century, Kara-Khanid Khanate was destroyed by the Turkic [[Khwarazmian dynasty]], a vassal of the Qara Khitai.

...injiang]] (新疆, meaning "new frontier") when the region was reconquered by the Manchu-led [[Qing dynasty]] in 1759. Xinjiang is now a part of the [[Pe ...l map showing the separation of Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin (Taklamakan) by the Tien Shan Mountains]]