The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes

Travel in time to an often overlooked area of history and learn the astonishing ways that cultures thought of as barbaric have profoundly influenced our world today.

• By This Professor
• 01: Steppes and Peoples
• 02: The Rise of the Steppe Nomads
• 03: Early Nomads and China
• 04: The Han Emperors and Xiongnu at War
• 05: Scythians, Greeks, and Persians
• 06: The Parthians
• 07: Kushans, Sacae, and the Silk Road
• 08: Rome and the Sarmatians
• 09: Trade across the Tarim Basin
• 10: Buddhism, Manichaeism, and Christianity
• 11: Rome and the Huns
• 12: Attila the Hun-Scourge of God
• 13: Sassanid Shahs and the Hephthalites
• 14: The Turks-Transformation of the Steppes
• 15: Turkmen Khagans and Tang Emperors
• 16: Avars, Bulgars, and Constantinople
• 17: Khazar Khagans
• 18: Pechenegs, Magyars, and Cumans
• 19: Islam and the Caliphate
• 20: The Clash between Turks and the Caliphate
• 21: Muslim Merchants and Mystics in Central Asia
• 22: The Rise of the Seljuk Turks
• 23: Turks in Anatolia and India
• 24: The Sultans of Rum
• 25: The Sultans of Delhi
• 26: Manchurian Warlords and Song Emperors
• 27: The Mongols
• 28: Conquests of Genghis Khan
• 29: Western Mongol Expansion
• 30: Mongol Invasion of the Islamic World
• 31: Conquest of Song China
• 32: Pax Mongolica and Cultural Exchange
• 33: Conversion and Assimilation
• 34: Tamerlane, Prince of Destruction
• 35: Babur and Mughal India
• 36: Legacy of the Steppes