Re: The river culture that never came


"Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Dec 28, 6:28 am, Trond Engen <trond...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The report from the Issyk Kul expedition reminded me of a thought of
mine. Five or six millennia ago early civilizations thrived in fertile
river valleys on the edge of deserts. Why didn't a comparable culture
develop along the Amu-Darja and the Syr-Darja?

--
Trond Engen
- raising a central Asian question

>Trond:
>Maybe the glacial meltwater that feeds those rivers had not yet
flowed in sufficient quantity to support irrigation agriculture.
I.e., until those glaciers had grown and then started to melt at a
significant rate, those rivers might have been small and
interrmittent.

The problem could well have been climatic in this instance. The former
centres are near the sea, they share climates, which are influenced by the
sea. Central Asia otoh has harsh winters and boiling hot summers, so the
intelligent thing would have been to remain nomadic or semi-nomadic to
escape from the extreme weather conditions

have fun

Uwe Mueller


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