Central Asia in world history

A layering of peoples

The rise of nomadism and oasis city-states

The early nomads : "Warfare is their business"

Heavenly Qaghans : the Türks and their successors

The cities of the Silk Road and the coming of Islam

Crescent over the steppe : Islam and the Turkic peoples

The Mongol whirlwind

The later Chinggisids, Temür, and the Timurid Renaissance

The age of gunpowder and the crush of empires

The problems of modernity.