Medievalists.net » Steppes http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Rise of Muscovy http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/26/the-rise-of-muscovy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/26/the-rise-of-muscovy/#comments Fri, 27 Dec 2013 01:38:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46081 Kievan Rus which was founded in 880 was made up of a loose knit alliance between small city states in what is today western Russia. The most powerful of these city states was Kiev. During the early thirteenth century the Mongol continued their march west until they conquered Kievan Rus in 1240.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/26/the-rise-of-muscovy/feed/ 0 A Study on the Effects of Ghazan Khan’s Reformative Measures for the Settlement of the Nomadic Mongols (1295-1304) http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/23/a-study-on-the-effects-of-ghazan-khans-reformative-measures-for-the-settlement-of-the-nomadic-mongols-1295-1304/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/23/a-study-on-the-effects-of-ghazan-khans-reformative-measures-for-the-settlement-of-the-nomadic-mongols-1295-1304/#comments Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:23:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42308 The Ilkhanid’s sovereignty in Iran was part of the great empire under the command of Genghis Khan and his successors. It extended broadly from Korea to Eastern Europe and China to Iran and Syria. Such conquest originated from Mongolia (Middle Asia), which was the original land of these homeless nomadic people. They lived by shepherding, hunting and sometimes looting nearby tribes or civilized centers.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/23/a-study-on-the-effects-of-ghazan-khans-reformative-measures-for-the-settlement-of-the-nomadic-mongols-1295-1304/feed/ 0 A Distant World: Russian Relations with Europe Before Peter the Great http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-distant-world-russian-relations-with-europe-before-peter-the-great/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-distant-world-russian-relations-with-europe-before-peter-the-great/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:15:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36207 Despite their isolation and poverty, the Slavic plowmen succeeded in settling this unforgiving region, expanding their numbers, and, most importantly, creating the beginnings of a trading network along the many rivers of the region—the western Dvina, the Volkhov, the northern Dvina, and the Dniepr and its tributaries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-distant-world-russian-relations-with-europe-before-peter-the-great/feed/ 0 Sacred Kingship among the Peoples of the Steppes http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/08/sacred-kingship-among-the-peoples-of-the-steppes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/08/sacred-kingship-among-the-peoples-of-the-steppes/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:46:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29122 eurThe vast belt of the Steppes, located between the Hungarian plains and the Great Wall of China,
runs along the southern edge of the Eurasian arboreal zone. Starting in the 1st millenium B.C. this region has been inhabited by Iranian, Hunnish, Turkish and Mongol mounted nomads who, at various times, unified a large portion of the Steppes into a single empire.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/08/sacred-kingship-among-the-peoples-of-the-steppes/feed/ 0 Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/18/silk-roads-or-steppe-roads-the-silk-roads-in-world-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/18/silk-roads-or-steppe-roads-the-silk-roads-in-world-history/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:27:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28018 Modern historiography has not fully appreciated the ecological complexity of the Silk Roads. As a result, it has failed to understand their antiquity, or to grasp their full importance in Eurasian history.

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