The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China by Thomas J. Barfield

The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China

Thomas J. Barfield

325 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Around 800 BC, the Eurasian steppe underwent a profound cultural transformation that was to shape world history for the next 2,500 years: the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Asia invented cavalry which, with the use of the compound bow, gave them the me...

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