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  not long after the Chinese coquered
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  new faith brought to cetral asia
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  The Chinese are defeated by Arab armies
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  in 1218 The Mongaols from Farther east were led by Genghis Khan.
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  Timur a turkic-speacking mongol named Timur rose to power and built an empire. this lasted till 1405, he saported arts, literature and science
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  europeans sail in to east asia avoiding the silk road. trade started to decline in central asia and the region became isolated.
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  russia conquered and colonized central asia under the czars. this begain in the north and moved through the south. settlers followed the solders and fared the deserts.
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  after the russian revolution in 1917 russia crashed the growing resitance. to do so they drew new political boundaries that by doing so it seperatied people and their recources
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  centail asia republics declared independence. international bounderies remained from the soviet era. the fergana v alley which is very fetile had been divided among three countries.
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  Russian is the official language in some of the countries. however the language and culture in general is losing people. The altin alphabet is replacing the cyrillic alphabet. in addityion millions have returned to russia since 1991