Search results for "Steppe" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Pasternak spent the summer of 1917 living in the steppe near Saratov, where he fell in love with a Jewish girl. This affection resulted in the ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
- Maksimuk, L. V. Zhirnov, and S. V. Nash. 1995. From Steppe to Store: The Trade in Saiga Antelope Horn. Species in Danger. Cambridge, UK: Traffice International ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- started writing the long short story The Steppe (Step), which was eventually ... *"The Steppe" (1888) – won the Pushkin Prize ...19 KB (2,819 words) - 06:50, 31 July 2023
- including rock and boulder fields, meadow, steppe, shrub, arctic tundra, savanna, desert, forest, and agricultural pasture. ==Behavior, diet ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 05:35, 4 March 2023
- The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the Central Asian republic of Bashkortostan, an oil rich territory. A significant number ...10 KB (1,550 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- effect that the Uighur, Shatuo Turks, and Kirghiz steppe cavalry had on the Chinese. On the other hand, they noticed the effect that the adoption of ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- range descends southward and transforms into a steppe landscape before meeting the Sahara. The Atlas mountain range is a portion of the fold mountain ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 06:36, 16 November 2022
- The name “Golden Horde” is believed to have come from the steppe color system for the cardinal directions: black = north, blue = east, red ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 18:55, 30 August 2021
- climate, Mediterranean climate, continental steppe, subarctic climate, tundra, polar ice cap, and desert. The Köppen system, however, has its ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 08:03, 23 January 2023
- |Mustela eversmannii || Lesson, 1827 || Steppe polecat || Europe & Northern AsiaSouthern Asia |-valign="top" style="background: ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- of the rhinoceros that lived in the European steppe area shares many similar physical characteristics with the unicorn, as does the narwhal, which ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- the level, rolling plains of the Nogay Steppe. The climate varies according ... bare rock, snow, and ice. The Nogay Steppe has sagebrush vegetation ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- Chameleon is any of the tropical, New World lizards comprising the family Chamaeleonidae, known primarily for their ability to change body color ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 02:06, 13 January 2023
- he fought against the Saka and other Iranian steppe tribes, as well as the mysterious Turanians from beyond the Oxus. In the process of these campaigns ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- and arboreal, and grasslands, dry steppe, mountains, forests, savannas, and so forth. ==Behavior, feeding, and reproduction== Viperids feed largely ...12 KB (1,886 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but also in Poland the Baltic states and several other countries. Russian Tatars ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- of the characteristic timber graves of the steppe. Based on its use by Indo ... within the distinctive timber-frame graves of the steppe. ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- *Mammuthus trogontherii Steppe mammoth *Mammuthus meridionalis Southern mammoth *Mammuthus subplanifrons South African mammoth *Mammuthus primigenius ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- formidable opponent. Also, despite the steppe tactics of the Avars and ... *Hildinger, Eric. 1997. Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- shrub forest, 10) brush-wood, and 11) meadow steppe. Evergreen broad-leaved forests, some of which make up the largest remaining tracts of humid sub ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- Rift Valley, and north-north east of the Maasai steppe, the great plain of northeastern Tanzania renowned as the homeland of the nomadic Maasai cattle ...13 KB (1,915 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- were often sold into slavery by impoverished steppe families or kidnapped by slave-traders. The Mamluk system gave rulers troops with no link ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Tulip is the common name for any member of the thousands of varieties and about 100 species of bulbous plants comprising the genus Tulipa of ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- Scytho-Siberians and the people of the Eurasian steppe. The crowns are a uniquely Korean product and show little Chinese influence. The Silla crown ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 06:29, 11 January 2024
- that controlled only the southern part of the steppe was inherently insecure. ==Reputation and Conduct== Abu Bakr was renowned for his simple ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- subpolar; the northeast is made up of steppe and cool semidesert. Vegetation is limited to mosses and stunted trees in the exposed southern and ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- husbandry, and traded with the nomadic steppe dwellers to the south, with ... between Lithuania and the Tatars of the steppe. Frequently attacked by Crimean ...26 KB (3,695 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- Mustelidae is a diverse family of the order Carnivora, whose extant members typically are characterized by large necks, small heads, short legs ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- in the 1990s was reintroduced into the Mongolian steppe from zoos and is now considered endangered in the wild. As a result of its preservation and ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 01:25, 12 April 2023
- The fifth region is a rolling, sandy plain called the Nogay steppe ... poplar, and black alder, with a grass steppe vegetation on the lower slopes ...42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- Turkey and is surrounded by a barren featureless steppe vegetation, with various Hittite, Phrygian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman archaeological ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- from zoos into the Mongolian steppe in the 1990s. It is sometimes considered a separate species, E. przewalskii, but also is listed as a subspecies ...18 KB (2,488 words) - 07:29, 6 September 2023
- In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is an organized, individual living system (such as animal, plant, fungus ...36 KB (5,345 words) - 01:14, 18 November 2022
- the Irtysh river where they built several steppe monasteries. The Khoshuts ... units. Those in the western Kalmyk steppe were attached to the Astrakhan ...59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
- North of the city, a fertile and gently undulating steppe extends far north into neighboring Kazakhstan. The Chui river drains most of the area. Bishkek ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- structure to extend their power beyond the steppe. Over a period of 30 years beginning in 1586, Nurhaci, a chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- and deserts of Central Asia. The Kazakh Steppe, with an area of around 310 ... is still called Dashti-Kipchak, or the Kipchak Steppe. In the late ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- 20 inches (500mm) annually, produces a steppe type of vegetation. The flora consists of mountainous steppe, with dwarf oak and Iberian ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- warlords, known to the Turkic-speaking steppe peoples as "köl-beki ... the activities of the Magyars and other steppe tribes, and not the Rus'. ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- The Caspian Sea (Russian: Kaspiyskoye More; Persian: Daryaye Khezer) is a landlocked endorheic (having no natural outflow except evaporation ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- /51305frame.htm Great Basin Shrub Steppe]. Bio Images. * [http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/ecoregions/50515.htm Great Basin montane forests ...18 KB (2,728 words) - 02:26, 19 December 2022
- fully glaciated Alaska Range. The grassland steppe including the land bridge and stretching for several hundred miles into the continents on either ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- cover is between 10-30 percent, such as in the steppe regions of the world. Trees of any type (e.g., needleleaf, broadleaf, palms). ...22 KB (3,182 words) - 06:31, 1 April 2024
- to control land traffic between the Eurasian Steppe and the Middle East. The only other practicable crossing of the Caucasus ridge was over the ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- name Hauts Plateaux) consist of undulating, steppe-like plains lying between the Tell and Saharan Atlas ranges. Higher and more continuous than ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- 400 square miles (1,000 km²) of sagebrush steppe grasslands, with a total ... the last refuges of intact sagebrush steppe communities on the Snake ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- latter words mean "plain" or "steppe." Eden is described as a paradise where the first man and woman lived naked and not ashamed ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- interior basin, which is mainly of the shrub-steppe variety. The original shrub-steppe vegetation has in large part--over 50 percent--been destroyed by ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- of the Magyars, were settled in the wood-steppe parts of western Siberia (i.e., to the east of the Urals)–from c. 2000 B.C.E. onwards at least ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- in the southernmost portion of the steppe region, after ignoring advice from his advisor, Croesus, to not continue forward. Jona Lendering, [http://www ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024