. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. ^ n ? 1 _1 Aj^ /**->es» ? Aj9kt» ^ »^a4* ?— «XflUfc — a^^j .tl. vv^^i- lyoA^ fe-^j-^ ya^ It. « —•tvSis **<^*,< M. ^. «^AA- k»^ ^A^M^ TiiF. Kiiiiirii TAiiK KHOM TiiK Old TiitKisii UK Ktiiics, the KlDATKT (From tilt; in tin- Iiii|n-riul Uiliiaiy at Viniim.) central Axinand Siberii ?;] HISTORY OF THE WORLD 159 Samarkand. In Tashkent, Ferghana, and Kharismia other dynasties occupied thethrones. The conquest of Sogdiana, the petty States of which, however, had hardlydisappeared, gave the Turkish conquerors an intere

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. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. ^ n ? 1 _1 Aj^ /**->es» ? Aj9kt» ^ »^a4* ?— «XflUfc — a^^j .tl. vv^^i- lyoA^ fe-^j-^ ya^ It. « —•tvSis **<^*,< M. ^. «^AA- k»^ ^A^M^ TiiF. Kiiiiirii TAiiK KHOM TiiK Old TiitKisii UK Ktiiics, the KlDATKT (From tilt; in tin- Iiii|n-riul Uiliiaiy at Viniim.) central Axinand Siberii ?;] HISTORY OF THE WORLD 159 Samarkand. In Tashkent, Ferghana, and Kharismia other dynasties occupied thethrones. The conquest of Sogdiana, the petty States of which, however, had hardlydisappeared, gave the Turkish conquerors an interest in the Western trade,especially in the export of silk from Sogdiana, which was then hindered by thePersians, probably because in Persia itself the breeding of silkworms was a preva-lent industry, and also because silk was obtained from China by the sea attempt to win the desired object from the Persians by diplomacy led to along series of hostile complications. The Turks then determined to enter intodirect communication with the Byzantines, who must have been equally interestedin breaking the Persian trading monopoly (569). A Turkish embassy arrived atConst

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