Climate Change along the Silk Road and Its Influence on Scythian Cultural Expansion and Rise of the Mongol Empire | |
Che, Ping1; Lan, Jianghu2,3,4 | |
通讯作者 | Lan, Jianghu(lanjh@ieecas.cn) |
2021-03-01 | |
发表期刊 | SUSTAINABILITY |
卷号 | 13期号:5页码:17 |
摘要 | Climate change and cultural exchange both influenced cultural development along the continental Silk Road during the late Holocene, but climate change and its influence on nomadic civilizations during that time has yet to be systematically assessed. In this study, we analyzed records of climate change along the Silk Road covering key periods in the late Holocene, based on multiproxies from various archives including lake sediments, shorelines/beach ridges, peatlands, ice cores, tree rings, aeolian sediments, moraines, and historical documents. Combined with archaeological data, we assessed the influence of climate on development and expansion of representative pastoral nomadism. Our results show that the most notable climate changes in Central Asia were characterized by decreasing temperature, expanding glaciers, increasing precipitation, and increasing humidity during transitions from the Sub-Boreal to Sub-Atlantic Period (ca. 9-8th century BC) and from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age (ca. 13-14th century AD). The two periods coincided with Scythian Cultural expansion across the steppe landscape of Central Asia and rise of the Mongol Empire, respectively. These temporal coincidences are interpreted as causally related, where temperature fall and glacial advance may have forced the pastoral nomadism to southward migration. Coeval wetness and southward migration of steppe landscape in Central Asia were beneficial for these cultural expansions, which spanned the Eurasian arid and semi-arid zone westward. Therefore, during the historical period when productivity was underdeveloped, although expansions of pastoral nomadism were closely related to internal social structures, climate change was possibly the most critical controlling factor for sustainability development and collapse. |
关键词 | Sub-Atlantic Period Little Ice Age lake sediment shoreline climate change culture expansion |
DOI | 10.3390/su13052530 |
收录类别 | SCI ; SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
资助项目 | Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB40010300] ; Natural Science Foundation of China[41991253] ; Natural Science Foundation of China[U20A2078] ; National Social Science Foundation of China[18ZDA172] ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
项目资助者 | Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Social Science Foundation of China ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
WOS类目 | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000628635200001 |
出版者 | MDPI |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/16168 |
专题 | 现代环境研究室 第四纪科学与全球变化卓越创新中心 |
通讯作者 | Lan, Jianghu |
作者单位 | 1.Xianyang Normal Univ, Dept Foreign Languages, Xianyang 712000, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, State Key Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Xian 710061, Peoples R China 3.China Pakistan Joint Res Ctr Earth Sci, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Quaternary Sci & Global Change, Xian 710061, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Che, Ping,Lan, Jianghu. Climate Change along the Silk Road and Its Influence on Scythian Cultural Expansion and Rise of the Mongol Empire[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2021,13(5):17. |
APA | Che, Ping,&Lan, Jianghu.(2021).Climate Change along the Silk Road and Its Influence on Scythian Cultural Expansion and Rise of the Mongol Empire.SUSTAINABILITY,13(5),17. |
MLA | Che, Ping,et al."Climate Change along the Silk Road and Its Influence on Scythian Cultural Expansion and Rise of the Mongol Empire".SUSTAINABILITY 13.5(2021):17. |
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