Articles related to "Sogdian"

Sogdian caravans spread kernels of the world's religions from China to Syria. They dominated the Silk Road as masters of trade, diplomacy, and translators of scripture.

An introduction to a largely-forgotten people, the Sogdians, who established trading posts from Merv to Korea and who administered empires.

The Kirghiz were a Scandinavian forest-dwelling people who emerged to defeat the Uighurs and establish their own state. This is their story.

History sometimes seems to be an inevitable process - but it was not. There were many occasions when a major change could have happened but was diverted by chance.

Hidden by her father in a remote fortress, a girl whose name means "little star" would come to marry the most powerful man in the world.

For a millennium it was the spiritual center of the Zoroastrian world. For more than 700 years it was also a thriving center of Buddhist thought.