This lecture presentation details out the so-called Inner Asian ‘gunpowder empires’ that were formed once the great conquests, acquisitions and control on the steppe landscape had been established by the nomadic hordes of greater Eurasia.
Over this phase, earlier maturing experiments in architecture, urbanism and settlement (encampment) formation were formalized. More importantly, it was in these four centuries that pre-dominantly sedentary settlements were interspersed on the Inner Asian landscape, often separated from each other by substantial distances. Yet, despite the evident luxuries of civic life, these ‘sedentarizing’ empires (or confederations more appropriately) continued to tenaciously connect to their nomadic pasts, often redeploying this past towards ‘strengthening’ their nomadic cultural mentalités. Within the purview of city life and its usual accoutrements, this sedentarization of resident populations in turn also resurrected the shrunken urban core (shahristan) to again expand beyond the confines of the urban walls, as it had done in the epoch past the Arab invasions.
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