Department of
History
College of
Liberal and Fine Arts
Main Campus
MB-1.120
18/48
1 - Full Term
MWF 10:00 am - 10:50 am
To be determined by instructor
An examination of the political, military, economic, and cultural interaction of nomadic and sedentary peoples along the northern Silk Road running from Western China through Central Asia to the Black Sea Steppe. Topics may range from the formation of the first powerful nomadic tribal confederations (Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns) in the Iron Age and culminating with the rise of the great Gunpowder Empires of the Ottomans, Timurids, and Moscow tsars in the 14th and 15th centuries.