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fur…” and “…foretellers of gust winds as they stuck their snouts in the sand whenever a gust of wind picked up …” (Whitefield 146). Camels afford us one glimpse of how this system came into being. The two-humped or Bactrian camel was native to central Asia and Iran and was used as a domestic animal from at least the third millennium BCE. onward. The one-humped camel was native to Saudi Arabia. Physically the two species share resistance to thirst and to hunger, which probably explains the survival

The Silk Road proved to be an important trade route that helped transform many imperial worlds. The Silk Road was established when Alexander the Great was in power and promoted governments to enhance trade. While promoting trade, the Afro-Eurasian world shared commodities and interests that would integrate the different cultures. (202) Different ideas were exchanged throughout Afro-Eurasia, including religion. In particular, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam were religions that were widely spread

civilization; who grew their food and were educated. Due to the fact that historians still cannot really decipher the Mongols language, much less they few written materials left behind no one is to know what they had in mind during the invasions throughout Asia, the Middle East and Eastern

continental caravan routes from China to Persia. While conquering most of Asia, they started blending in with the societies, this also led to diversified economic development. In result, “the Persian silk industry also benefited from the Mongol conquest because of the contacts that that opened up with China.” The cities along the Caravan routes is also part of the tax-free custom zone (Persia, Armenia-Georgia, Central Asia, and

United States and Saudi Arabia (on many occasions by the Pakistani intelligence services) in their fighting against the Soviet Union in the 80s when the United States sought to beat a rival imperial power and more control over the Middle East and Central Asia. Moreover, the US government directly supported the

Afghanistan and Pakistan, girls in both regions do not have schools that are available to them. In Greg Mortenson’s novel, Stones into Schools, he makes change happen by building schools through a non-governmental organization he co-founded the Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit whose mission is to build schools with a focus on educating girls and promoting peace through education. He creates an environment for girls in both regions to have access to education and gain new skills. One of the book's

military transportation. Administration needed to do something to compensate the labour shortage. The problem was solved, though not decisively; by the issuing of decree to conscribe a local “tuzemcy” for defence works. The local population of Central Asia started to rebel soon after the issuing of decree. There was an uncertainty in whether the decree was issued correctly or not; Russian officials were already

used for trading valuables and merchandise. The road stretched from China and along the Mediterranean Sea being used by mankind for thousands of years. This trade route revolutionized our understanding of the connections between different regions of Asia. In return the valuables and goods enhance the importance of the Silk Road. Each type of contact with every encounter has a connection from the various artworks. The Silk Road carried many products; however, the most valuable product was Silk. Traders

would say the Mongols were a key development to civilization. However, the progress they made is nothing compared to their cruelty and the process they used to conquer the majority of Asia and parts of the Middle East. The Mongols were originally a small, nomadic tribe that originated from the steppes of Central Asia. The tribe placed little value on objects, considering they moved around in yurts and hardly settled. Led by Genghis Khan, they conquered land worth double the size of the Roman Empire

Migration is the movement of people from one place to another to settle and live in the new area. Nowadays, the number of moving people exceeds 200 million (World Migration Report 2010 - The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change. International Organization for Migration. 2010). In the ancient times the number of moving people was little, but the causes were approximately the same. Especially, migration of ancient Turks had a significant role in formulation of world civilizations. Their