https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzxM-Zpk0qg
Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/sandrhomanhistory The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their

https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-fate-of-europe-lies-in-the-steppes/
These open plains, the "Wild Fields" of local historiography have always been a contested space, where great empires wrestled for control: in the great Second World War battles of Kursk, Kharkiv and Stalingrad, Europe's entire fate hinged on the battle between the two great tank armies wheeling and clashing like nomad hordes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han%E2%80%93Xiongnu_War
The Han-Xiongnu War, also known as the Sino-Xiongnu War, was a series of military conflicts fought over two centuries (from 133 BC to 89 AD) between the Chinese Han Empire and the nomadic Xiongnu confederation, although extended conflicts can be traced back as early as 200 BC and ahead as late as 188 AD.. The Chinese civilization initially clashed with nomadic tribes that would later

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nogai_Horde
The Nogai Horde was a confederation founded by the Nogais that occupied the Pontic-Caspian steppe from about 1500 until they were pushed west by the Kalmyks and south by the Russians in the 17th century. The Mongol tribe called the Manghuds constituted a core of the Nogai Horde.. In the 13th century, the leader of the Golden Horde, Nogai Khan, a direct descendant of Genghis Khan through

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Fields
Wild Fields. The Wild Fields ( Ukrainian: Дике Поле, romanized : Dyke Pole, Russian: Дикое Поле, romanized : Dikoye Polye, Polish: Dzikie pola, Lithuanian: Dykra, Latin: Loca deserta or campi deserti inhabitati, also translated as " the wilderness ") is a historical term used in the Polish-Lithuanian documents of the 16th to

https://books.google.com/books/about/Taming_the_Wild_Field.html?id=q0yGCwAAQBAJ
Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements

https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Wild-Field-Colonization-Russian/dp/0801473470
He focuses on just one geographic form, namely the Russian steppe, and builds his argument brilliantly: in his view, the intellectuals and political officials of the 18th and 19th centuries transformed Russia, through the colonization of its wide steppe, from a nation initially viewed as barbaric, with vast lands of wilderness, to a serious

https://brill.com/view/journals/joah/4/1-2/article-p58_6.xml
1 Inventing the Russian Steppe. Controlling the mobility of internal populations framed early Russian expansionism. While sending settlers to the east was driven by economic motivations (such as the profitable fur trade), expansion to the south, particularly towards the Black Sea steppes, was dominated and limited by defence imperatives. 14 Far from being conceptualized as the natural

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1815483.Taming_the_Wild_Field
Taming the Wild Field analyzes the incorporation of the Eurasian steppe grasslands into the Russian empire. Sunderland's work both strives for understanding the Russian empire's peripheries and for understanding the steppe as a periphery, for, as he stated in his thesis, the steppe "was so thoroughly colonized by Russians and other outsiders and their economic and cultural practices that

https://www.academia.edu/151400/What_is_Colonisation_An_Alternative_View_of_Taming_the_Wild_Field
The Russian Empire and the steppe: an exchange of views 3 THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND THE STEPPE Igor Grachev, Pavel Rykin. A European's View of Asiatic History: Willard Sunderland. Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. XVII + 239 pp.

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68243
Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe. Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild

https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1043786
It was not until 1633 that a mutually recognized border was agreed to by king and sultan. By that time, local frontier populations formed in the crucible of violence and light state control that characterized the "wild fields" emerged strong enough to challenge the imperial centers of the Ottoman Empire, Muscovy, and Poland-Lithuania.

https://brill.com/display/book/9789004441095/BP000012.xml
1.1 The Great Steppe. General Comments. A vast steppe once stretched across the interior of the Eurasian continent, from the northern shores of the Black Sea to Manchuria. Its northern boundary was a humid forest steppe zone that separated it from a long, continuous belt of deciduous and mixed forests farther north.

https://archive.org/details/tamingwildfieldc0000sund
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https://www.academia.edu/53148175/The_Pechenegs_Nomads_in_the_Political_and_Cultural_Landscape_of_Medieval_Europe
It interprets the images of nomads found in the European cultural imagination, particularly in medieval literary sources from areas as far apart as Britain and Constantinople. This imaginary is the product of an accumulated culturally-processed emotional response to newcomers from the Eurasian Steppe who were often perceived as either a severe

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/wfwdgi/the_ponticcaspian_steppe_is_very_rich_in_what_is/
First, I'd like to agree with u/NomadEmpiresPod in that there is a common misconception that there wasn't agriculture in Eurasian steppe regions until modern times. I have an old answer where I write a little about this, but at least on the Central Asian side of the steppe there is evidence of agriculture in river valleys going back far, like 6,000 BC, so on a similar time scale to evidence on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mongolianism
Land was either sold by Mongol Princes, or leased to Han Chinese farmers, or simply taken away from the nomads and given to Han Chinese farmers. Many impoverished Mongols also began to take up farming in the steppe, renting farmlands from their banner princes or from Han merchant landlords who had acquired them for agriculture as settlement for

https://shapedown.com/textbook-solutions/neon/exe/guardian_the_lost_fleet_beyond_frontier_3_jack_campbell.pdf
an Appendix Beyond the Final Frontier Dislocating the Frontier Futile Diplomacy, Volume 3 Beyond Chaco Research Handbook on International Marine Environmental Law Beyond the Steppe Frontier Roman Frontier Archaeology in Britain and Beyond Documents on the Arab-Israeli Conflict Beyond Philadelphia Beyond Technonationalism Beyond the Alamo (EasyRead

https://wikimili.com/en/Nomadic_peoples_of_Europe
The Pontic-Caspian Steppe is a steppe extending across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, formed by the Caspian and Pontic steppes. It stretches from the northern shores of the Black Sea to the northern area around the Caspian Sea, where it ends at the Ural-Caspian narrowing, which joins it with the Kazakh Steppe in Central Asia, making it a part of the larger Eurasian Steppe.

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Nogai_slave_raids_in_Eastern_Europe
For over three centuries, the military of the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde conducted slave raids primarily in lands controlled by Russia[lower-alpha 1] and Poland-Lithuania[lower-alpha 2] as well as other territories. Their main purpose was the capture of slaves,[1] most of whom were exported to the Ottoman slave markets in Constantinople or elsewhere in the Middle East. Genoese and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Persian_Wars
The Roman-Persian Wars, also known as the Roman-Iranian Wars, were a series of conflicts between states of the Greco-Roman world and two successive Iranian empires: the Parthian and the Sasanian.Battles between the Parthian Empire and the Roman Republic began in 54 BC; wars began under the late Republic, and continued through the Roman (later Eastern Roman (Byzantine)) and Sasanian Empires.

https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Cossacks_estate
The Cossacks are the free people of the Steppes. Their background varies, some have been born on the grasslands while others are escaped serfs from the great latifundia that border the wild fields. Great raiders and hardy settlers, the Cossacks aspire to be recognized as an estate of the same importance as the Nobility and to strike down at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Nogai_slave_raids_in_Eastern_Europe
Crimean-Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe were the slave raids, for over three centuries, conducted by the military of the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde primarily in lands controlled by Russia and Poland-Lithuania as well as other territories, often under the sponsorship of the Ottoman Empire.. Their main purpose was the capture of humans and consequent enslavement, most of whom were