Asian Art - E&J Frankel, New York

STEPPES: FORWARD & BACK: 17th & 18th Century Buddh

Author: Edith Frankel

CHRONOLOGY Central Asian Influences on Mongolia & Mongolia 8000-2000 B.C.E. 6500-4000 B.C.E. Neolithic culture 8,000-35000 B.C.E. Hunting & fishing on Tundra. 3,000-2.000 B.C.E. Microlithic sites in Mongolia (flint weapons) 3500-2700 B.C.E. Surtanda culture 3500-2700 B.C.E. Botai culture in Kazakhstan domestication of horses 3500-2700 B.C.E. Tersek culture 3000-2000 B.C.E. Afanasievo culture L.Neolithic S. Siberia 2000 B.C.E. Andronovo culture Southern Siberia 2700-1000B.C.E. Bronze Age Karasuk culture farmers 700 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Scythians in Eurasia (Influenced Mongolian Art) e 500 B.C.E.-1000 CE 300-200 B.C.E. Huns (Xiongnu) tribes confederate Ordos Plateau and Liao River to the east. 206 B.C.E.-220 CE Xianbei federation reside in E. Mongolia 55-34 B.C.E. Huns influence from Volga to Ural foothills 38B.C.E.-1 C.E. Hunnu tombs of “Noyon Uul 100 CE N. Huns Became vassals to China They extended power westward for independence from China. 386 Tuoba tribe founded N. Wei later ruled China in Inner Mongolia 400 Those Xiongnu who remained on borders of China disappeared. 700-1,000 Uighur Empire Capital city Khar Balgas 1000 Kidan Empire urbanized Mongolia 156 cities along with... read more

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