Kazakhstan has long been influenced by Eastern cultures, and steppe peoples such as the Xiongnu, Turks, and Mongols, as well as the Central Plains Dynasty, were active here.
The original capital of Kazakhstan was not the current Nur-Sultan, but Almaty.
Until now, the largest city in Kazakhstan is Almaty, which is a veritable political and economic center.
Topographic map of Kazakhstan
Looking at the topography of Kazakhstan, it can be found that the eastern part of the country starts from the Daxing'an Mountains, passes through the Mongolian plateau and the Altai Mountains, then the Kazakh hills, and finally crosses the plains of the Caspian Sea to the plains of Eastern Europe, which can be described as a crossroads of Asian traffic.
It can be found through the map that the part of Kazakhstan near the east, the seat of Almaty Oblast, was once part of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the control of the region can be traced back to Zhang Qian's operation of the western region.
Administrative map of Kazakhstan
After the Han Dynasty, the Turks rose here, and Kazakhstan began the process of Turkification.
In the Tang Dynasty, it was further influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, and it was not until the rise of the Arab Empire that Islamic culture began to enter the region, and the process of Islamization began in this region.
Map of the Tang Dynasty Territory
Later, the rise of the Mongols and the fusion of the Mongols and turks led to the beginning of the formation of the Kazakh nation.
After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, it gradually began to conquer the region, especially in the Three Dynasties of Kangyongqian, and the western border of the Qing Dynasty also reached Lake Balksh, encompassing the entire Almaty region of present-day Kazakhstan.
Map of the qing dynasty in 1820
After the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty began to decline, and later the Russians gradually encroached on the northwest territory of Our country, and then Tsarist Russia forced the Qing Dynasty to sign the "Beijing Treaty" and "Continue to Survey the Kashgar Boundary Treaty" to occupy the region.
Territory ceded by the Qing Dynasty
The fate of Kazakhstan can be described as a twist and turn, after the establishment of the Soviet Union, as a republic incorporated into the Soviet Union, since then began a violent blood exchange, Slavic culture strong integration.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, ethnic Russians in the region accounted for nearly forty percent, while the kazakhs, the dominant ethnic group in the region, were only about forty percent.
Map of some of the Republics of the USSR
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kazakhstan began to appear on the world stage as an independent country, the Ethnic Kazakh population doubled in the following three decades, and the proportion of the Ethnic Russian population fell sharply.
Looking at Kazakhstan today, we can still find that its geographical location is very important, directly connecting China and Russia and Western European countries, and is a veritable crossroads.
Map of Kazakhstan
Now because of the rise in natural gas prices, large-scale protests have broken out in the country, and looking at its important geographical location, you can understand what kind of logic is hidden behind this!
Who wants to destabilize the region, it is simply the heart of Sima Zhao, and everyone knows it!
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