I'm confused on the Turco-Mongol cultural synthesis/tradition. Were the two cultures even that different from each other in the first place? Did they offer complementary elements like the Turco-Persian tradition? Where did the title Khan come from?
>>2657701
Same ancestors, then got different by language and living style. Mongols went east, Turks a little west. To the Altaic mountains.
Khan coming from Turkish word "Kagan" and stuff like that. Turks were more dominant until collapse of their great khanates, and most of them migrated to western lands. mongols took the power but kept Turkish monarch and military traditions. Not very different btw but you can see the difference clearly.
>The ruler of the Xiongnu was called the Chanyu later refined by Rouran as "Khan"
>The Yenisei Kirghiz Khagans claimed descent from Xiongnu (Chinese Li Ling + daughter of the Xiongnu Khan)
>Xiongnu are Mongoloids
>Xiongnu used Chanyu/Khanyu title synonymous with Khan
>it is suggested that Indo-European Wusun used the royal title "Kunmi"
>Beckwith specifically suggests an Indo-Aryan etymology of the title Kunmi
>IE word Kunmi possibly the root for Khan
>Hun = Khan = Hunnu = Xiongnu = Hunya = Chanyu = Kunmi (similar shit)
>Huns were in fact descendants of the Northern Xiongnu who migrated westward
>the title “Khan“ was original to the Rourans
>The region experienced a Mongolification and was eventually occupied predominantly by peoples showing Mongoloid features, known from their skeletal remains and artifacts
tl;dr Scythians transferred their technology/skills/culture to Mongoloids and then got erased by them
>>2659731
Why did scythians even do that?
>>2659906
the whites went to the periphery of their civilization taught forest dwelling mongoloids their ways
they just wanted cheap labor (cheap soldiers) like the west is doing with non-whites
>be prehistoric Central Asian
>member of heavy-bearded, aquiline-nosed Yamna, Afanasevo, Andronovo, Tocharian, Scythian, Bactrian, Sogdian
>invent the wheel and chariot
>first to domesticate the horse
>build prehistoric cities
>meet innocent looking Eskimo-like people in the periphery of your civilization, in the tundra
>teach them your ways of the horse and lifestyle, transfer your knowledge and technology
>they adopt and adapt to your Scythian ways
>they expand from their tundra, permafrost territory
>gradually take ownershership of Scythian clay
>for the next couple eons you fail against their onslaughts
>indigigenous Scythians of Asia is now replaced by Mongolids
>>2659906
>>2659935
>repeating Scythian/Andronovo failures
the west never learns from history
>be China
>monopolize on technology (porcelain, silk, paper..) secrets for eons
>Europeans beg for trade secrets of Chinese technology
>fuckoffgwailo.mov
>Anglos start wars to open free trade
>allow trade on condition that your Chinese citizens move to US and learn technology of west
>ban westerners from controlling business and doing the same in your land
>continue strategy of extracting all of western science and technology secrets for the next hundred years
>copy and replace western products
>westerners transfer all technology to you
>settle Chinese in western lands
>total replacement of gwailo
>mission complete