Cossacks Conquer Siberia
What story has
been more dramatic in history than how a small army under Yermak Timofief
conquered the last redoubt of the barbarians in 1581? Unlike Cortez's conquest of Mexico or Pizzarro's conquest of Peru , the Siberia/Mongolia region had launched
barbarian invasions of civilizations from China to Europe and Africa since the beginning of civilization. Sometimes the inhabitants of the region had
expanded and pressured neighbors to migrate outward and thereby pressure their
neighbors and so on until barbarians inhabiting remote regions bordering on
civilizations in turn had to migrate and invade.
One looking
at history from the vantage point of the Roman Empire would have thought the homeland of
the barbarians to be so strong that only the largest and most determined army
could have conquered it. That Yermak's
men did it on a Cortez-style invasion, makes this story both so remarkable and
important.
For more information on
<i>Prelude to the Siberian Conquest</i> here is an installment from
Cossaks Conquer Siberia by Nickolay M. Karamzin: http://dld.bz/eDC5z
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