It inhabits savannahs, steppes, and forests.

It is a transitional ecoregion of semi-arid grasslands, savannas, steppes, and thorn shrublands lying between the wooded Sudanian savanna to the south and the Sahara to the north.

It provides linguistic evidence for the geographical location of these languages around that time, agreeing with archeological evidence that Indo-European speakers were present in the Pontic-Caspian steppes by around 4500 BCE ( the Kurgan hypothesis ) and that Uralic speakers may have been established in the Pit-Comb Ware culture to their north in the fifth millennium BCE ( Carpelan & Parpola 2001: 79 ).

They started inhabiting the fortified villages, adopted a Persian dialect, and farming in the high steppes in the early 16th century.

Soon after receiving these orders, the 20, 000-strong Cossack force started for the Kazakh steppes.

In the beginning of the first century AD, the Bulgars started moving west through Zhetysu and the steppes of modern-day Kazakhstan, reaching the North Caucasus in 2nd-3rd centuries AD.

A sedentary culture, labelled " Daco-Carpic " by Bichir, which started around 106 and disappeared around 318 ; and a smaller culture displaying the characteristics usually associated with nomadic peoples from the Eurasian steppes, labelled " Sarmatian " by Bichir.

The reliance on cavalry as a means of warfare in general lies with the ancient inhabitants of the Central Asian steppes in early antiquity, who were one of the first peoples to domesticate the horse and pioneered the development of the chariot.

However, the Ayran Flock Guardian or Sage Koochi steppe type that descends from the steppes of Asia, brought by the steppe nomads, used to domesticate the horse, control and defend large livestock far predates these breeds in working type, giving evidence of the genetic template of the Alaunt.

or Dzungarian horse, is a rare and endangered subspecies of wild horse ( Equus ferus ) native to the steppes of central Asia, specifically Mongolia.

Other popular natural destinations include Kamchatka with its volcanoes and geysers, Karelia with its many lakes and granite rocks, Altai with its snowy mountains and Tyva with its wild steppes.

An absolute ruler, he worked to colonize the wild steppes, controversially dealing firmly with the Cossacks who lived there.

Yet there were also groups of people who fled into these wild steppes from the cultivated lands of Kyivan Rus in order to escape oppression or criminal pursuit.

Hamsters are found in the wild throughout Europe and Asia and are considered to be extremely adaptable, living in scrublands, sand dunes, desert steppes and farmlands.

:" As I have already said, khyang is the name given by the Tibetans to the wild horse of their northern steppes.

The Atlas range, the north-westerly part of the continent, between its seaward and landward heights encloses elevated steppes in places broad.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols were divided between those who wanted to remain based in the steppes and those who wished to adopt the customs of the Chinese.

A Turkic people, the Khazars, ruled the lower Volga basin steppes between the Caspian and Black Seas through to the 8th century.

Data available from stations in the foothills and steppes south and southwest of the mountains suggest mean annual rainfall between for that area.

A Turkic people, the Khazars, ruled the lower Volga basin steppes between the Caspian and Black Seas until the 10th century.

The Pechenegs ( a semi-nomadic Turkic people of the Central Asian steppes ) occupied the steppes north of the Black Sea ( 8th – 12th century ) and by the 10th century were in control of the lands between the Don and lower Danube rivers.

While these gigantic water management schemes were not implemented, a smaller Irtysh-Karaganda irrigation canal () was built between 1962 and 1974 to supply water to the dry Kazakh steppes and to one of the country's main industrial centers, Karaganda.

Later Greek accounts describe the Cimmerians as having previously lived on the steppes, between the Tyras ( Dniester ) and Tanais ( Don ) rivers.

Because the fertile soil of the North China Plain gradually merges with the steppes and deserts of Central Asia, with no natural barriers between the two regions, the plain has been prone to invasion from Central Asia and Manchuria, prompting the construction of the Great Wall of China.

Their first recorded homeland lay between the Don and Dnieper rivers ; they migrated in the 1st century BC toward the Danube, to what is now the Baragan steppes in Romania.

The straits were called the Cimmerian Bosporus because of the similarity to the Bosporus strait between Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara ( thence to the Dardanelles and Aegean Sea ), and after the Cimmerians the equestrian nomads on the steppes north of the Black Sea.

There is broadly a division between archaeologists who see an influence from pastoral societies of the steppes north of the Black Sea and those who think that Corded Ware springs from central Europe.

: Asian steppes between Aral Sea and Altay Mountains.

Henceforth, the steppes between the rivers Dnieper and Danube were under the influence of the Mongols of the Volga, known as the Golden Horde.

The town has been inhabited for thousands of years, as it is one of the few places in all the Lower Danube that can be easily forded and thus an easy link between the Balkans and the steppes of Southern Ukraine and Russia.

There is evidence of sustained contact between the BMAC and the Eurasian steppes to the north, intensifying c. 2000 BCE.

Petroglyphs attributed to that period suggest that their creators were hunters on the steppes of central Asia, living between Kazakhstan and China.

Cozrig's Khazars attacked and eventually took the steppes between Don and the Urals, according to the treaty of 668 between Batbayan and the Khazar Khagan ( Kaban ) under which Batbayan and his sister Huba were taken prisoners.

There he fielded a private army of between 2000 and 6000 soldiers and from there he headed the colonisation of the steppes on the eastern side of the Dnieper River.

It was the end of the war between the Russian and Ottoman Empires, for possession of the steppes near the Black Sea and Crimea.

The wall is located at a geographic narrowing between the Caspian Sea and the mountains of northeastern Iran, one of several Caspian Gates at the eastern part of a region known in antiquity as Hyrcania, on the nomadic route from the northern steppes to the Iranian heartland, and the wall is believed to have protected the

* c. 1750 BCE: Nomadic shepherds, the Aryans, enter India from Central Asia and the Russian steppes.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

The Hetman's physical aspects were not those of a savage rider of the steppes.

The central and eastern plateau, with its drier continental climate, has deciduous forests and forest steppes.

) woodlands and steppes.

especially characteristic of the northern deserts and steppes.

Bilge's khaganate spanned vast steppes from the Caspian Sea to Manchuria ; he also invaded the western sections of the Chinese territories.

To this day short-haired Hortaya Borzaya are highly valued hunting dogs on the steppes, while the long-haired Psovaya Borzaya, is going through a hard period of restoration of its working qualities after decades of shadow, mainly show existence.

Emperor Wu consolidated and extended the Chinese empire by pushing back the Xiongnu into the steppes of modern Inner Mongolia, wresting from them the modern areas of Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai.

In eastern Europe, Russia, and out onto the steppes, cavalry remained important much longer and dominated the scene of warfare until the early 17th century and even beyond, as the strategic mobility of cavalry was crucial for the semi-nomadic pastoralist lives that many steppe cultures led.

Five years later they laid siege to Chersonesos Taurica ; their cavalry kept roaming the steppes of Crimea until 590.

Domesticated horses were moved in large numbers from the arid steppes to colder and wetter areas.

According to tradition, after Ellac's defeat and death, his brothers ruled over two separate, but closely related hordes on the steppes north of the Black Sea.

( The Scythian and Sarmatian bows, used for centuries on the European steppes until the arrival of the Huns, had no such laths.

The steppe region had long been inhabited by mounted nomads, and from the central steppes they could reach all areas of the Asian continent.

During the prehistoric eras the vast steppes of Southern Russia were home to tribes of nomadic pastoralists.

High ground, separated by broad, undulating steppes, gives way to mountains ranging from near the Iranian and Turkish borders.

Except for a few valleys, the mountain area proper is suitable only for grazing in the foothills and steppes ; adequate soil and rainfall, however, make cultivation possible.

Cultivation on nonirrigated land is limited essentially to the mountain valleys, foothills, and steppes, which have or more of rainfall annually.

They will stop the storm from the steppes, and ultimately break it.

ceramics and polished stone tools appeared, found spread across Kazakhstan steppes, river valleys, and mountains.