The history and culture of the East from ancient empires to the present day.
Historian Giorgio Rota on Who the Safavids Were and Why They Fought the Ottomans
Lecture 3
Power, Politics, and the Myth of Exceptionalism
Lecture 2. Wars, Diplomacy, and Trade
From the Xiongnu Empire to the Turkish Republic
Historian Aibolat Kushkumbaev on the military stratagems of the Ulus of Jochi
Lecture One. Ancient China and the Steppe Empires
Timothy May on Chinggis Khan, Warfare, and the Limits of Conquest
How the Nomadic Way of Life Gave Rise to an Ancient Science
Guess what this thing was used for.
Peter B. Golden on Etymology, Identity, and Power in the Early Turkic world
How the Copper Mines of Central Asia Shaped Humanity
How the Ottoman sultans won the war of ideas in the Islamic world of the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries
