History of Asian Nations Tajikistan children Tashkent, Uzbekistan mankind would tremble.” Legend claims that in 1941, a Russian anthropologist exhumed Timor’s grave, and found another inscription. “Who opens my tomb shall unleash another invader more terrible than me.” Within hours, the Nazis invaded the home of the anthropologist in Russia. The Khanates. The Tartars ruled Siberia and Central Asia from the 16th-17th centuries under the Shaybanid Dynasty. After that came a period of stagnation, followed by three powerful khanates (kingdoms) in Uzbekistan these were the Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Kokand. Their frontiers were not well defined, and they fought each other as well as outsiders Nomadic tribes of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan were outside the influence of the three khanates in Uzbekistan and even raided them. Russian Conquest, The 17th-18th centuries saw the coming of Russian trading Usbek girl Turkmen building ‘Samarkand, 118 Kazakhstan caravans and Czarist troops. Russian expansion into North Asia began in 1730 when Kazakhstan hordes surrendered to troops of the Czar. After this, the Russians began to annex and pacify the whole region. By 1884, Russia had carved out its new territory in North and Central Asia. Russia set up a centralized colonial system. The Czar in Moscow was regarded as the “Little Father” of the Asian peoples. This colonial policy was paternalistic but not totally dietatorial. The sons and grandsons of the ruler khans were taken to Moscow and made nobles. The local Muslims enjoyed their own religion and small properties without interference. The Czar’s army also stopped the frequent local wars. All that changed however with the coming of the communists after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Mongolia became an independent country, and its inner half a province of China. The five Central Asian st became part of the 16 republics of the Soviet Union (USSR). Turkmenistan girl! Turkmenistan palace