PolledHistory: Turkic History 1/3

 Hello! Because  no one voted, I randomly chose the third option, Turkic history. I forgot to write yesterday.

The Turks are a very influential people and ethnicity in history, especially in Northeast Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, and parts of Europe. They  had effect everywhere, and were especially militarily strong, with their effect ranging from the Han Dynasty to Balkan politics in the modern era until the present day. Turkic people are distinguished from Turkish people, though Turkiye/Turkey is a turkic nation.

The most famous event of the Turks as their migration from East and Central Asia to further west into Central Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe and Africa. However, they exised before their migration mostly in modern day Mongolia, parts of Russia, and the surroundings. Today, we will cover the Turks before the migration. The Xiongnu also became the Huns, a similar group to the Turks, which went everywhere, some like the Hephtalites attacking Persia and/or China and some attacking First Europe. The Turks 

The Turkic culture began when some peoples began to move to this Mongol-surrounding area (although they are different from mongols, though somewhat similar). Their culture was nomadic, meaning they did not live permanently, especially during the first few centuries of Turkic history. They also often used horseback. Before the migration, they were mostly Tengrist in religion, which is a declined religion which can be explained as "shamanism" or "animism". One of the first notable Turkic nations of relevance was the Xiongnu confederacy, though they are modtly regarded as proto-turkic. What this nation is known for is mostly its constant attacks against the Han dynasty, and it was founded by Modu Chanyu. While the first turkic migration happened in 395, most Turks hadn't left for the west yet. These Turks formed the First Turkic Khaganate, the first great truly turkic nation, also known as the Gokturks, which at their height (though was nomadic, so they did not rule too sophisticatedly) dominated large swathes of land from modern day Crimea to the Korean peninsula. 

The Khazars are one of the migrated Turks that were in the Middle East during the 600s, 700s, and 800s, which had influence in politics nearby. The Tueks continued to migrate west and often converted to Islam as they did this. The Seljuk, Ghaznavid, and later the Mamluk empires formed.

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