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[[File:Central Asia world region.png|thumbnail|Central Asia]]

'''Central Asia''' is a [[region]] in [[Asia]]. The [[country|countries]] in Central Asia are [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Turkmenistan]] (which are mainly [[Turkic people|Turkic states]]) but also includes [[Tajikistan]], and parts of [[China]] and [[Mongolia]]. [[Caucasus|Caucasia]] is also part of Central Asia. The [[United Nations]] also includes [[Afghanistan]] as part of Central Asia.

== History ==
People have lived in the region of Central Asia since [[Pre-history|prehistoric times]]. Most of the region was part of the [[Silk Road]]. It was a part of the [[Persian Empire]] until [[Alexander The Great]] captured it. When he died, the land was given to his [[General officer|general]] Seleucus. Seleucus slowly lost it to the [[Parthia]]ns. When the Parthians (the Parthians were [[Persia]]ns) lost power, the [[Sassanids]] added it to their own Persian empire. However, a couple years later, during about the 600's A.D, [[Arab]] [[army|armies]] spreading the faith of [[Islam]] quickly captured it. A while later, an [[Iran]]ian [[dynasty]] got [[autonomy|semi- autonomy]] under the [[Abbasid Empire|Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad]]. They were known as the [[Samanid]]s. The Samanids controlled most of Central Asia and Northwestern Iran. They had power over this area during the [[10th century]]. With them, Central Asian [[city|cities]], such as [[Bukhara]] and [[Samarkand]], grew in [[culture]].

However, [[Turkic people|Turkic]] armies from this area took the region away from them. They were known as the [[Seljuk Empire|Seljuk Turks]]. At the same time, [[Timur]] captured it. After his death, the Timurids ( the name of the people of the [[dynasty]] Timur founded) could not hold unto their [[empire]]. They lost it to the [[Mongols]]. When the Mongols captured it, [[fire|burned]] it to the ground. A while later, some [[ruler]]s decided to make their own empires under that of the [[Mongols]]. These empires were known as Khanates. During the 19th century the [[Russian Empire]] conquered these lands. Many years later in 1991, all of the countries of Central Asia declared [[independence]].

== Economy ==
Uzbekistan has much [[cotton]]. Kazakhstan is rich because it has sold [[oil]], [[gas]] and [[metal]]s to [[Europe]] and [[China]]. Turkmenistan has adjusted better to independence from the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]] than the other Central Asian countries, but it has been run by a [[dictatorship]]. Other than Kazakhstan, most of Central Asia are mostly underdeveloped.

==See also==
* [[Dagestan]]
* [[East Turkestan]] (Xinjiang, China)
* [[Kashmir]] (Northern [[Pakistan]] and [[India]])
* [[Kazakhstan]]
* [[Kyrgyzstan]]
* [[Tajikistan]] (South-central Asia)
* [[Tatarstan]]
* [[Turkmenistan]] (South-central Asia)
* [[Uzbekistan]]
* [[Mongolia]] (and [[Inner Mongolia]], China)
* [[Soviet Union]]
* Soviet Central Asia

*[http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11743/ General Map of Central Asia: I] from 1874

== References ==
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