March of Central Asia
March of Central Asia is the chronicle of the March of all Central Asia (East Central Asia: Tibet and Xinjiang, and West Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan), the central region of the continent of Asia, through twenty centuries from the ancient time to the present. It tells of the condition and circumstance of all Central Asia, its episodes and encounters, and the routes taken by its society and its patterns during this March through the ages. Central Asia has marched down the pathway of history since antiquity. The March of prehistory Central Asia is obscure. This obscurity lifted with Cyrus the Great (r. BC 557-530) of Iran, who opened Central Asia to history, and the world Alexander the Great (BC 356-323) of Macedon, Zhang Qian (BC 158-115) of China, Qutayba ibn Muslim (668-715 AD) of Arabia, Chingiz Khan (1165-1227 AD) of the Mongols, Emir Timur (1336-1405 AD) the most heroic and greatest political of Central Asia itself, generals and commissars and huntsmen and explorers have marched over its high mountain passes and through its deep valleys and deserts during two millennia and more. There has also been the March of peoples and ideas, poets and philosophers, ambassadors and merchants and pilgrims and travellers, and those who advanced this long March as well as those who hindered it. Central Asia is no longer the Shangri-La of legend or "lost horizon". Its epic March, however, continues as ever. The book March of Central Asia will advance readers' knowledge of Central Asia and amuse their gleeful delectation.
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