Central+Asia

Central Asia History: **nomad, BC, AD, Persians, Herodotus, Scythians, Ostrogoths, Slavs, Avars, Huns, Han Dynasty, plague**. 1. Nomads are people who travel from place to place but dont live any where. 2. B.C means before christ and the numbers of years before christ. 3. A.D. means that it was called the common era. 4. Persians are people that are indo european. 5. Herodotus was the first writter in history that tried to find out what happened in the past. 6.Scythians were a group of people that lived in europe. 7. Ostrogoths where the first group of people that lived in poland. 8. Slavs moved to Europe after living in West Asia around 2000 B.C. 9.Avars were the first people that lived in Mongolia and were ruled by the Mongols. 10.Huns may have came from Western China. 11. Han Dynasty came about in 202 B.C. 12. Plauge was when a disease that hit europe and made its way.

500 B.C- A greek historian Herodotus said that Scythians used thier horses to keep sheep and cows to the north of the black sea. 1200 B.C. Persians and Medes left Central Asia and moved south to iran and West Asia 1200 B.C.- Genghis Khan united the mogols and they united all of Central Asia and beyond from china to india. 1300 B.C - The mongols empire collapsed because of the plauge and into smaller kingdoms. 3000 B.C.-Nomads learned how to tame horses an ride them which made it easier to care for more cattle and conquer more people. 300 A.D- The scythians were taken over by other groups. 700 A.D- The Vikings started to use dniper and the volga trade route to the south.

Activity 2 Centeal Asia, **prairies, steppes, tundra** Prairies- This is a tract of grassland or a medow Steppes- A vast grasslands without trees. Trunda- One of the vast nearly level treeless plains of the artic regions of Europe,Asia and North America.