Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21H.580 (Fall 2003) 
• Course Title:
• From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• History 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Peter Perdue 
• Course Introduction:
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  21H.580 From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2003

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a complete set of lecture outlines. This course also features archived syllabi from various semesters.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This subject examines interactions across the Eurasian continent between Russians, Chinese, Mongolian nomads, and Turkic oasis dwellers during the last millennium and a half. As empires rose and fell, religions, trade, and war flowed back and forth continuously across this vast space. Today, the fall of the Soviet Union and China's reforms have opened up new opportunities for cultural interaction.

  
  

  *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.