The History of the Eurasian Steppe 2 

Xiongnu were descendants or Huaxia of the Xia dynasty, the first Chinese Dynasty, The Xiongnu are considered as the Proto-Turks, the ancestors of all Turkic groups.

You didn’t mention Moghul dynasty of India and Timurid dynasty of Central Asia, which were founded by Mongol descendants

Good stuff, thanks for posting!

Although my last name is Hispanic, it is by marriage... Both of my parents were Hungarian refugees, from Sopron and Dunabogdany. My father was a history buff - especially when it came to Hungarian origins and different tribes of the Eurasian steppe. The Magyars, Bulgars and Chuvash would feature in interestingly as part of this topic. But, I did enjoy this discussion for its thoroughness. I too, have a fascination for history and am learning as much as I can about the Scythians and Huns.

Easily understood. Thank you

Thanks so much for all the information.

Early Tang Dynasty emperor had Xianbei blood.

Fascinating information. We hear so little from this region in modern times. (the _____stan countries)

That was exaggeration of contemporary historians. They wrote 2 mln. people was killed in one city, by modern historians calculated how much was the population of the city of that time which was max. 100 thousand people. So contemporary historians multiplied the casualties by 10 fold.

I did not realize this channel is still doing episodes regularly! Oh wow, subscribed. I see steppes, languages, civilizations, suffering, all interesting topics. May I ask, how do you come by this information? Are you a teacher, or just a fella who enjoys these topics?

Suppoting your details need time period for better understanding.

You totally forgot about the Avars in 6th century. They ran from the Eastern Eurasian steppe and were there later replaced by GokTurks. But in Europe they totally destroyed the Germanic Gepid kingdom in Pannonia, they also had a heavy impact to the Byzantine empire and Slavs that lived in a Lower Danube basin and Northern Black sea. At that time the Slavs also began to migrate into the West. In comparison to the famous Huns that were placed there for a century, the Avars presence and influence lasted for 2 or possibly 3 centuries, before Charlemagne finally defeated them. It was estimated that they extracted a large amount of gold from Byzantium,that would be today worth of 11 billion in US dollars. Charlemagne built an own empire with that treasure and that was the true rising of the Franks.

12:40 lol emphasis on immediate xD

The horse, the chariot or cart and , very important, the composit bow. A weapon that made it possible to shoot arrows with high velocity while sitting on the back of it on a galloping horse. Yes, the cavalry was in essence also an invention that came from the euro-asian steppe. The reason that these empires could grow so large is because those peoples had speed and superior weapons.

Monghols conqured Iraq, too, destroying Baghdad.

Kithans were mongolic people, not Han Chinese

Huns were defeated by Skand in India.

But all these steppe people started from yamnayas . I guess all Turks had yamnaya blood in them , correct me if I am wrong .

nice, but too eurocentric.