Wild horses: Tartar warfare and the history of civilization.
In 1644, the Manchus, a Tungusic population from northeast Asia, conquered Ming China, establishing the Qing Empire. Four years later, Crimean Tartar horsemen joined a major uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, gravely destabilizing one of Europe's largest states. These near-simultan...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 381 - 407 |
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