Central Asia is not the edge of the world, but the axis on which the world order has been repeatedly reorganized.
Around:
The confrontation and integration of nomadism and farming
Empires come and go, trade routes rise and fall
Replacement of beliefs and rupture of language
The entry of foreign forces (Russia, the Soviet Union, the West, China, the Islamic world)
How ordinary people are "developed, abandoned, and needed again" in big history
