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> Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism remained common in inner Asia until the 13th century with the Mongol invasions. I was talking about Sogdiana, not other regions of Central Asia, and 1000 CE is a standard cutoff…
The arrival of Islam in Sogdiana resulted in an immediate decline in written transmission of other major religions, and they were gone by approximately the year 1000 CE. Even the Pamirs, always a relative backwater,…
It is also possible that Central Asia would be still Buddhist or Manichaean, as those were the major pre-Islamic world religions in the region alongside Nestorian Christianity.
> It spread in Asia mostly through peacful means all the way to China The spread of Islam to China was only made possible through the spread of Islam first to Sogdiana, and that happened through quite violent means as…
The passport, as Yugoslavia was a non-aligned country, allowed its holders to travel very widely, not just to the West. That, combined with Yugoslavia’s brief economic prosperity in the 1960s and 1970s, is why Yugoslavs…
I wonder if economists regard this as a sign of a bad economy. Some years ago lowland Tajikistan (a country where the economy is weak outside of remittances from gastarbeiter in Russia) saw a sudden wave of building…
Your post is sadly an example of the pop-sci history that circulates in Romania,* and it is out of sync with the considerable advances made in Albanian historical linguistics in recent decades. The evidence is…