How Did European Culture Affect Central Asia

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Turkish nomadic groups were able to take-over and control much of central Asia and settlements in Persia, Anatolian and India. The Turkish nomads managed to acclimatize their societal needs to the landscape, climate, and ecology of the arid lands before them. Central Asia does not receive enough rain to support large-scale agriculture. Oases permit cultivation of limited regions, but for the most part grasses and shrubs grow on the central Asian steppe lands, and there are on large rivers or other sources of water to support large-scale irrigation systems. Yet grazing animal thrive on grasses and shrubs, and the people of central Asia took advantage of this by herding sheep, horses, cattle, and camels. Nomadic people drove their herds and flocks …show more content…

The earliest religion of the Turkish people revolved around shaman’s religious specialists who possessed supernatural powers, communicated with the gods’ communities. Yet many Turkish people became attracted to the religious and cultural traditions they encountered when trading with people of settled societies, and by the sixth century many Turks had converted to Buddhism. Nestorian Christianity, or Manichaeism. Partly because of their prominence in Eurasian trade networks, Turkish people also developed a written script.
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The relationship between the Byzantine Empire and the Turkish nomads, the defeat the Byzantine Empire. They influence India repassed the chosen their religion at the time was Buddhism and Hinduism and faced Islamic religion on to the India’s. Turkish rule had great social and cultural implications in India, as it did in Anatolia. Mahmud of Ghazni was a zealous foe of Buddhism alike, and his forces stripped Buddhist and Hindu establishments of their wealth, destroyed their buildings, and often slaughtered their residents and