To the south, Patagonia is a land of windswept steppes, vertiginous mountains and massive glaciers.
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Life in the steppes would be impossible if people selfishly hoarded their wealth while others went hungry.
In the name of the tsar, they demanded pelts as yasak (tribute) from reindeer herders, steppes nomads and hunter-gatherers.
The films are heavily influenced by their unique cultural origin, based on a nomadic existence on the massive Kazakh steppes.
From the lowland steppes of the north, the ground rises to the southern border with Georgia which runs through the Caucasus mountain peaks.
It has a a site of rich diversity, with a variety of landscapes from mountain river gorges, to mountains steppes, meadows, floodplains and reservoirs.
Shared between Chile and Argentina, southern Patagonia is chiefly a land of vast, desolate steppes, though the Chilean section also has areas of conifer and beech forest.
History's first great horsemen (and not coincidentally first trouser-wearers), the Scythians galloped across the steppes, impressing the classical world with both their knack for accessorizing and their chilling ferocity.
Venice was the model of Western European culture: its founders, driven to the marshes and the lagoon by invaders from the steppes, built the great and beautiful city essentially in retreat.
This pattern was repeated throughout the ancient world, for example, pitting Chinese against the peoples of the Steppes, hurling German and Hunnish barbarian races against the Romans, and in countless upheavals throughout Meso-America.
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In his terror, Muhammad could only think that he was being attacked by a jinni, one of the fiery spirits who haunted the Arabian steppes and frequently lured travellers from the right path.
Though many Chechens fought valiantly in the Soviet army during the war, Stalin accused them of supporting the Germans and deported the entire Chechen population to the frozen steppes of Kazakhstan in 1944.
Across the Europe, the Russian steppes and through the Byzantine wonder of Constantinople, gateway to Asia, Kerbouchard is thrust into the heart of the treacheries, passions, violence and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time.
The natural communities of coniferous, mixed, broadleaved forests, meadow steppes, herbaceous and sphagnum swamps, meadows and lakes together with the aquatic and semi-aquatic systems of the largest in Europe Kuibyshev Reservoir are present here.
More recently, a meteor exploded over the steppes of southwestern Russia on February 15, a blast that scientists at Canada's University of Western Ontario estimated had the energy of about 30 early nuclear bombs.
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Part coming-of-age story and part adventure, Kerbouchard travels from Brittany to Moorish Spain to Central Europe to the Russian Steppes to the Byzantine Empire, and features more than a few exciting action scenes and battles.
Until the XV century, Otrar, together with the rest of the Great Ortar Oasis, represented the main urban centre on the marginal zone between southern towns and northern steppes, between settlers and nomads of Central Asia.
But elsewhere farming and, therefore, settled life was impossible in the steppes, so the nomads scratched out a meagre existence by herding sheep and goats, and breeding horses and camels, living in close-knit tribal groups.
The Iranian plateau was populated by the immigration of the Parsi, Persians in Greece, Meads, Toranians, Akadians, and many other tribes who all came from the Eurasian steppes and are called Indo-Europeans or Iranic people 2400 years before Nietzsche and Hitler.
The Iranian plateau was populated by the immigration of the Parsi, Persians in Greece, Meads, Toranians, Akadians, and many other tribes who all came from the Eurasian steppes and are called Indo-Europeans or Iranic people -- 2400 years before Nietzsche and Hitler.
Olivier Roy, a Paris-based specialist on Central Asia, points to the cultural split in the region between the nomads from the steppes and mountains, mainly Kirgizs, Kazakhs and Turkmens, and the sedentary, mainly urban Uzbeks and Tajiks who settled in the river basins of Transoxania.
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