Степной пояс Евразии: Феномен кочевых культур

Great Eurasian steppe belt. It stretches for eight thousand kilometers from the Black Sea to the west up to the Yellow Sea in the far east of the continent, and its area is covered at least 8 million square kilometers. Steppe belt with V-IV millennium BC. e. until modern times (XVI-XVII centuries.) served as the true domain where infancy culture of nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralists. The struggle between them and the sedentary cultures often took a very violent form. Their "finest hour", but "swan song" was all-embracing empire of Genghis Khan and his successors. The three parts of the book - "Pictures of history", "Pictures of archaeological" and "Russia, Russia and the steppe belt" - the broadest canvas phenomenon of these crops with a V th. BC. e. up to the present.