skopia
Europe was a latecomer and a backwater, Frankopan argues: across two millennia wealth, faith and plague traveled the roads between Persia and China, and he sees the world's center moving back.
Wave after wave of horsemen out of the grasslands, breaking settled empires from China to Hungary. Grousset made Attila, Genghis Khan, and Tamerlane one continuous history running from the Scythians to 1757.
Britain and Russia crept toward each other across Central Asia until two thousand miles between them became twenty. Hopkirk tells it through the officers who rode alone into Bukhara, Khiva, and Kabul.