Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture
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- 2015
Summary
This book invites readers on a journey through time, to explore the multifaceted history of Central Asia. Through transcontinental passages such as the Silk Road, the book provides links among the major civilizations of China, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean, which in turn influences the characteristics of the region and beyond. For over seven thousand years, Central Asian residents have left a record of distinguished cultural artifacts. Like creators and innovators of any age or period, they sought to respond as creatively as possible to the necessities of their societies as a whole, and those of their individual patrons. In doing so they have given us a timeless source through which we can detect the dynamic stages of their creativity throughout history, as well as the breadth of our own rich cultural and artistic heritage.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2015
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-9927-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-9928-2
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 115
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- List of Figures No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
- 1 Prehistoric Central Asia No access Pages 3 - 8
- 2 Central Asia No access Pages 9 - 20
- 3 Mass Migration No access Pages 21 - 26
- 4 Satrapy of Parthia and Parthian Empire No access Pages 27 - 32
- 5 Satrapy of Bakhtaran (Bactra) and Kushan Empire No access Pages 33 - 36
- 6 Sassanian Empire No access Pages 37 - 42
- 7 Middle Ages in Central Asia No access Pages 43 - 46
- 8 The Satrapy of Sogdia No access Pages 47 - 56
- 9 Sogdia and Samanid’s Golden Age No access Pages 57 - 60
- 10 Sogdia and Timurid’s Golden Age No access Pages 61 - 66
- 11 Satrapy of Khwarazmia No access Pages 67 - 76
- 12 Seljuks and Mongols in Khwarazmia and Central Asia No access Pages 77 - 80
- 13 Central Asian Artistic Traditions No access Pages 81 - 86
- 14 Kyrgyzstan Cultural Heritage No access Pages 87 - 100
- Bibliography No access Pages 101 - 106
- Index No access Pages 107 - 114
- About the Author No access Pages 115 - 115





