TY - BOOK AU - Frye,Richard Nelson TI - The heritage of Central Asia: from antiquity to the turkish expansion SN - 155876111X U1 - 958 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Markus Wiener Publishers KW - Asia Central KW - Historia N1 - Geographic realities. -Peoples, languages, custom and beliefs. Before history. -Zoroaster's cult. -Achaemenid centralization. -Alexander and the heritage of hellenism. -Greco-bactrians and parthians. -Nomadic interlude. -The forgotten kushans. -The silk route. -The buddhist east. -Return of the nomads. -The merchant world of the sogdians. -Caliphs and kaghans. -The iranian-Islamic ecumene. -The present is born; P136; P135; P134; P133; P144; P143; P87; P35; P20; P14; P10; P06 ER -