[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by el pres

You probably already know this site, but it does link to external sites

http://www.worldhistory.com/
poking around and searching for 'the steppes'
gets me to some external links like http://dienekes.angeltowns.net/articles/ieorigins/

Thanks, El Pres! Actually no I didn't know that one! Nice find!!

Google (and searching) can be a pain in the ass.

I've typed "world history" in before, got some very good sites. Oddly that's not one of them.

The other night before posting I tried "civilizations of the steppes", nothing. "Ancient steppe civilizations" .... nothing ....

It's when I changed the search from civilization to "culture" and (believe this one?) "people of the steppes" that tons of stuff finally started coming up.

Even on Wickpedia "steppe" and variants would only give me one stupid paragraph on the geography of "a steppe" .... other searches "History of Central Asia" finally gave me good stuff.

Another lesson in both the art of surfing, and how SEs can be as friendly as mud.