Ebook: By steppe, desert, & ocean: the birth of Eurasia

The land and the people -- The domestication of Eurasia, 10,000-5000 BC -- Horses and copper : the centrality of the steppe, 5000-2500 BC -- The opening of the Eurasian steppe, 2500-1600 BC -- Nomads and empires : the first confrontations, 1600-600 BC -- Learning from each other : interaction along the interface, 600-250 BC -- The continent connected, 250 BC-AD 250 -- The age of perpetual war, AD 250-650 -- The beginning of a new world order, AD 650-840 -- The disintegration of empires, AD 840-1150 -- The steppe triumphant, AD 1150-1300 -- Looking back, looking forwards.;The story of the peoples of Eurasia, from the birth of farming to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century. An immense historical panorama set on a huge continental stage, this is also the story of how humans first started building the global system we know today.