steppes

If a llm would accept a name of a Viking or Khan of the steppes it doesn’t mean it wants to rape and pillage.

That border is either mountain ranges (Altai), or empty steppes (Zabaikalsk), or boreal forests (Amur and Vladivostok).

I've camped in the woods, on open steppes, and in designated camping areas in French and English towns.

Russia ruled/rules over vast empire of vast forests, inhospitable steppes and empty tundra, sprinkled with a few good spots and a few people.

Kazakh steppes are not your wild west and laptops are not gold bars.

No evidence of cultivation, but extensive evidence of cereal / grain processing - surrounded as it was by abundant wild grasses and steppes.

You needed a lot more than a few hours to walk between the villages in the Eurasian steppes, mostly because there were no villages there.

The Uralic tribes came into contact with the Aryas people on the steppes, and won battles with them enough to take captives as slaves, calling them orjat.

Does anyone else have an issue with the world population map claiming the Russian steppes have a population density on a par with the South East of England?

Well I think the senator should be more worried about those amalgamated automatons roaming around our steppes, breaking our penny-farthing bikes and soiling our women's petticoats.

And yes, there are vast fields, deserts, tundras, plains, steppes, ice-fields, and oceans of grey about all of this.

We know from studies of carbon and nitrogen isotopes that humans living in the Mammoth Steppes derived most of their calories from animals that ate grass (because grass has a different effect on carbon isotopes ratios than other plants have).

Indeed, much of proto-indo-European religion (ie the OG “sky father” [1]) was developed on the steppes in a pastoral lifestyle.

It suggests PIE may come from the Russian steppes, and that their secret weapon was the domestication of horses (due to the prevalence of "horsey" words in PIE).

Just last night I was reading "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World" by David Anthony and I was around the part of the book describing the lactose mutation and its spread across the world etc.

It's a little easier to understand why there's a strain of "we are the center of the world, outside our borders are barbarians" when you look at pre-modern borders: China is bordered by oceans, the russian steppes, the xinjian desert, and the tibetan plateau.

Anthony's own update is A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project (2016).

Global warming may (in the mid-term) increase food production by moving the grain productive zones further north (to the Russian Steppes) were there is more land area.