The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China by Thomas Barfield

Studies in Social Discontinuity

The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China

Thomas Barfield

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Around 800 BC, the Eurasian steppe underwent a profound cultural transformation that was to shape world history for the next 2,500 years: the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Asia invented cavalry which, with the use of the compound bow, gave them the me...

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