The steppe and the oasis cities between China and Persia carried horses, silk, faiths and armies across Eurasia. These articles follow the nomadic confederations and the trade routes that connected the settled empires on either side.
Permafrost under the Pazyryk mounds in the Altai kept felt, wood, horses, tattooed skin, a wagon and a knotted carpet from the 5th to 4th century BC.
· 400 BCSogdian merchants from Samarkand and Bukhara, who kept colonies across China from the AD 300s to the 700s and faded after the Arab conquest.
· AD 600
