Eurasian steppe

Tracing how horse domestication turned the Eurasian Steppe into a highway | Ars Technica

The Steppe, belt of grassland that extends 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from Hungary in the west through Ukraine and Central Asia to Manchuria in the east. Mountain ranges interrupt the steppe, but horsemen could cross barriers easily and interact with peoples across the entire steppe.

Steppe:sparse, dry, treeless ,grassland

The Great Eurasian Steppe: An Engine of History - Byzantine Emporia

The Sintashta culture (2100–1800 BCE)probably derived from the Corded Ware Culture. Sintashta-Petrovka culture or Sintashta-Arkaim culture is a Bronze Age archaeological culture of the northern Eurasian steppe on the borders of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. (Allentoft, 2015)

Russian steppes

Russian Steppes

Herdsman looking after his cows on a horse in the steppe, just 2 minutes from Astana! © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

Yamnaya were the original Indo-European speakers who lived on the steppes of Russia and Ukraine

The Saka were a group of nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples who lived in the Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin from the 9th century BC to the 5th century AD. The...

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Nomadic animal-herders from the Eurasian steppe mingled with Copper Age farmers in southeastern Europe centuries earlier than previously thought.