Regional Descriptions: Help the EBII Team

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I found the UNESCO documents of central Asia which is very helpful for discovering the whole story. If the team still needs Kangju i have done a brief chronology in the history section, but i wonder if it is correct.

Here is a rough copy of the province description.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Kangha

Kangju/ K'ang chii/ Kangui/ K'ang chu

---------Traveler's Log----------


----------Geography----------

oasis

steppe

Syr Darya - kanga river - Jaxartes

tributaries

Tein shen mountains

Pines

Kara tau range

----------The People, Society and Government----------

Iranian speaking

Sedentary and nomadic societies - Nomadic leadership

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Yuyeni (Yuni) - tashkent - bityan - chach - Stone city - capitol

oasis town

Late Burgulyuk period - 600bc -500bc

Kaunchin culture 400bc- 900ad
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kangju coins 2nd-3rd century AD

Winged camels are sign of kingship in Khwarezm and Kangju

Kultobe - script fragments

----------History----------


~1500BC - nomadic tribes arrive in the area, with horses and chariots. Bronze age centers are abandoned and new ones are founded. Settlements and nomads interchange technologies, bronze working, horses and chariots. indo-iranians (Androvono karasuk)

800-600BC Iron working establishes the vision of nomads as we know today of weapon, horse, saddle, 'scythian animal art style' cultural continuation from bulgaria to mongonlia. (Uyuk pyzerk)


Kangha - avesta?

Turan afrasaib?


593BC Cyrus invades. Syr Darya - frontier of the achmeniead empire against the northern sakas. fortresses established along the river.

329BC Alexander invades. No mention of kangju, may be part of massagetae(Tribes beyond the jaxartes, Spitamenes allies). chorasmia and macedonia(alexander) vs (spitamenes)sogdia and massagetae.



162BC Nomadic migrations begin with the bitter defeat of the yuechih by the Hsungnu. They begin political influence of central asian tribes, extracting tribute. The Kangju emerge sometime during this chaotic period, and assume control of independant Sogdia, Samarkand and Bukhara.

In 138 BC, the Han Emperor Wu sent an embassy headed by Zhang Qian to Central Asia to form an alliance against the Hsungnu. The 100 man delegation is captured by the Hsungnu and Zhang Qian is held captive.

132BC The Wusun, take revenge on the yuechih for past grevences and attack them at lake isuk-kul, with Hsungnu permission or alliance. Wusun take isuk-kul for themselves forcing the yuechih to move south.

131BC yuechih arrive in kangju controlled sogdia, either peacfully or forcefully.



130-125BC After 10 years of captivity Zhang Qian escapes, instead of going home he continues his diplomatic mission. During his stay in sogdia he takes note of the surrounding tribes including Kangju.
He notes that they are subservient/tributary to the Hsungnu and yuechih both. As the yuechih are now gaining control of sogdia and northern bactria. Kangju sends a prince as a royal diplomatic envoy to the Han court. They have a powerful army and control 5 kings/tribes

1??BC Kangju expands west past the Aral sea, reaching the southern urals. They subjugate the arosi tribe, force the alans west and have contact with the Sarmatians.



101bc kangju protects dayuan independence against Han through alliance.

60BC kangju leader invites chichi, leader of northern hsungnu into kangju to form an alliance, by exchanging daughters for marriage. they plan to attack Han ally Wusun.

42BC chichi and kangju leader reach the wusun capitol at issuk-kul, chichi starts demanding tribute from dayuan and other kingdoms.

36BC During a quarrel with his allies, Chichi confronts the Han army at talas. the same area of the abbasid vs tang battle. Chichi is killed in battle and the whole campaign falls apart. Han protects wusun and forces submission of kangju by demanding the kings son as a hostage



~0BCAD Northern hsungnu migrate north of kangju to the surrounding lake Bulkhash steppe. Kangju is increasingly trapped between the kushan/yuechih empire to the south and the rising Yue-pan/hsungnu kingdom into north.

83AD Kushans ally and intermarry with Kangju dynasty.

123-135AD prince Hu-yen of the Yue-pan creates a powerful kingdom.

~300AD Kangju remains independant untill absorbed into hephthalites.


Kara Kanga turks?

----------Strategy----------



----------source----------

History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The dawn of civilization earliest times to 700BC - UNESCO
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/000...44/094466e.pdf

History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The Development of Sedentary and nomadic civilizations 700BC to 250AD - UNESCO
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/001...7/105703eo.pdf

History of Civilizations of Central Asia: 250-750AD
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/001...46/104612e.pdf

The Yuezhi Migration and Sogdia - Dr. Craig Benjamin
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/benjamin.html

So if you still need it i can continue investigating and turn it into a proper description. Also, I can look into the Indo-saka and indo-greeks these documents have good information but i don't know if i can trust them.


This is how i view the tribes:

Scythian = European word for the steppe nomads
Saka = Iranian word for the steppe nomads

Sai = EB's Saka Rauka

Yuechih, Tocharians are the royal tribe > Kushans

Wusun

Kangju

Dayuan = Fergana

Hsungnu > Northern Hsungnu > Yue pan > Hephthalites/White huns
Hsungnu > Northern Hsungnu > westward huns? > Attila's Huns


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