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Crimea

“The History of Central Asia (vol 4): The Age of Decline and Revival” by Christoph Baumer

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It’s pretty hard to compete with the invention of the chariot, the Silk Road, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, so Christoph Baumer’s fourth and presumably final volume in his magisterial history of Central Asia is something of a mopping up operation.

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