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Post by merlkir on Sept 6, 2014 9:55:11 GMT 3
I hope this is the right subforum for this thread.  janpospisil.blogspot.cz/2014/09/project-oak-part-1-what-is-it.htmlI have quite a bit of material on both the Yuezhi and Xiongnu (and a bit on the Han too), but I figured I'd rely on the expertise of the scholars here, once in a while. Once I have the first draft of a script, I'd be really happy if someone could look at it and see if any inaccuracies or cultural oddities jump out. |
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Post by merlkir on Sept 6, 2014 11:23:00 GMT 3
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Post by merlkir on Sept 6, 2014 15:10:09 GMT 3
It's not really steppe history, but if anyone could help, I'd be really greateful:
I'm looking for reference on appearance of north western Indian people during the early Kushan empire, or late Indo-Greek kingdom.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 6, 2014 15:33:50 GMT 3
Nice project, good luck with that. If you are working on 1st century AD Tarim Basin, you should also add Saka and sedentary Tocharians as well as nomadic Yuezhi (your main character is one of them), Xiongnu and of course Han Chinese.
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Post by merlkir on Sept 6, 2014 16:08:18 GMT 3
Yes! I originally started with the story set among the Saka, but in time it shifted towards Tarim. Xiongnu will, for a part of the story anyway, be the antagonists.
The main character's best friend is a north Indian boy, possibly a slave who escaped his Bactrian/Kushan masters and somehow ended up with the Lesser Yuezhi.
By sedentary Tocharians, do you mean inhabitants of the various Tarim oases?
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 7, 2014 14:04:59 GMT 3
Yes, the oasis cities of the Tarim Basin were already inhabited by Tocharians at that time. They were originally vassals of the Xiongnu, but later the Chinese conquered them, making them vassals of the Han Dynasty. The Saka also lived in the Tarim Basin at that time (they were known in Chinese sources of the time as Sai), both as nomads throughout the entire region and as sedentary people mostly around Khotan (the Saka kingdom of Khotan survived until the early 11th century when it was finally conquered by the Qarakhanids).
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Post by snafu on Sept 26, 2014 5:00:33 GMT 3
What about the Sogdians? They probably had some cultural influence in that area at the time. Or maybe they came a little later.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 26, 2014 11:09:21 GMT 3
I think the Soghdians became a more prominent culture at a slightly later time.
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Post by merlkir on Sept 29, 2014 14:04:56 GMT 3
The Sogdians were definitely there and a player in the region, but nothing comparable to the Kushans, I would say. Their time came later, in the 4th - 7th centuries AD.
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