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  • Central Asia
    7th Century
    Bactria

    Islam ruled much of the Middle East and western areas of Central Asia

    Central Asia
    7th Century

    By the mid-7th century CE, Islam under the Rashidun Caliphate had come to rule much of the Middle East and western areas of Central Asia.




  • Eurasia
    14th Century
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    Black Death

    Eurasia
    14th Century

    The Black Death, also known as the Pestilence (Pest for short), the Great Plague or the Plague, or less commonly the Black Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.




  • Semipalatinsk Test Site, U.S.S.R. (Present-Day in Kazakhstan)
    Nov, 1955
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    RDS-37

    Semipalatinsk Test Site, U.S.S.R. (Present-Day in Kazakhstan)
    Nov, 1955

    Nevertheless, the Cold War escalated during his presidency. When the Soviet Union successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in late November 1955, Eisenhower, against the advice of Dulles, decided to initiate a disarmament proposal to the Soviets. In an attempt to make their refusal more difficult, he proposed that both sides agree to dedicate fissionable material away from weapons toward peaceful uses, such as power generation. This approach was labeled "Atoms for Peace".




  • Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. (Present-Day Kazakhstan)
    1957
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Sputnik 1

    Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. (Present-Day Kazakhstan)
    1957

    On the whole, Eisenhower's support of the nation's fledgling space program was officially modest until the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, gaining the Cold War enemy enormous prestige around the world. He then launched a national campaign that funded not just space exploration but a major strengthening of science and higher education. The Eisenhower administration determined to adopt a non-aggressive policy that would allow "space-crafts of any state to overfly all states, a region free of military posturing and launch Earth satellites to explore space". His Open Skies Policy attempted to legitimize illegal Lockheed U-2 flyovers and Project Genetrix while paving the way for spy satellite technology to orbit over sovereign territory, however, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev declined Eisenhower's proposal at the Geneva conference in July 1955.




  • Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan
    Monday Jun 19, 1989
    Dissolution of the Soviet Union

    The protests in Kazakhstan

    Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan
    Monday Jun 19, 1989

    In Kazakhstan on June 19, 1989, young men carrying guns, firebombs, iron bars and stones rioted in Zhanaozen, causing a number of deaths. The youths tried to seize a police station and a water-supply station.




  • Eurasia
    2nd Century BC
    Bactria

    The Greco-Bactrians were conquered by nomadic Indo-European tribes from the north

    Eurasia
    2nd Century BC

    During the 2nd century BCE, the Greco-Bactrians were conquered by nomadic Indo-European tribes from the north, beginning with the Sakas (160 BCE).




  • Taraz, Kazakhstan
    Dec, 36 BC
    Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)

    Battle of Zhizhi

    Taraz, Kazakhstan
    Dec, 36 BC

    A Han force breached and destroyed a fortress occupied by the Xiongnu chanyu Zhizhi Chanyu at Taraz, killing him.


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