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- Turkish- speaking people established kingdoms in eastern Asia
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- The Arab armies defeated the chinese.
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- Mongols from farther east, led by Genghis Khan, began a 200- year rule of Central Asia.
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- Timur also known as Tamerlane rose to power and built an empire.
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- Europeans began to sail to east Asia.
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- Russia conquered and colonized Centeral Asia
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- The soviet union tested hundreds of nuclear bombs in an isolated area of north eastern Kazakhstan.
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- Riots erupted among Uzbecks and others in the Fergana Valley.
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- Soviot Union collapsed and the Central Asia republics declared their independance.
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- Am Islamic rebel group kidnapped foreign travelers.