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Sentence Examples The vast expanses of the Eurasian Steppes were inhabited by Scythian nomads. In fact, the Basque region displays virtually no MtDNA for which Pontic Steppes origin could be claimed. The bulk of Haplogroup R is represented in descendant subclade R1, which likely originated on the Eurasian Steppes. Most of them are typical heliophile pioneer plants, occurring now in steppes, dunes or on bare limestone rocks. To our north, the vast featureless Kazakh steppes, an area the size of Western Europe, stretched away seemingly to infinity. Inuit igloos in the Arctic and felt-covered yurts on the Mongolian steppes, for example, have been used for centuries. Among those added to the list is the saiga, a nomadic antelope inhabiting the steppes and semi-arid deserts of central Asia. The Magyars were bowmen and light cavalry experts from the Asian steppes, and their horses were mostly the Turkmen type. Some time in the 9th century, a Turkish people from the steppes of Asia, known as the Magyars, began migrating westward. Yaola Four turned out to be a beautiful world, with vast steppes, forests and badlands. The present distribution of mountains and rivers, of fields, of meadows, of steppes, of forests, and of seashores, cannot be considered final. What would he have made of it, this endlessly questing, insatiably curious man of the steppes? These mobile homes have been used for thousands of years by nomadic Mongolian tribesmen on the steppes of Asia. Much of Uzbekistan's landscape consists of deserts, dry steppes, and fertile oases near rivers. Japan and China are also clashing over the route of a pipeline across the dark forests and frozen steppes of Siberia. With these they are able to dramatise plains, prairies, steppes and meadows. Most of the country is covered by steppes, with desert areas and some patches of cultivated land. In the Gobi area, you will find mountains, plains, steppes, forests and barren areas. It is a dry land of mountains and steppes, with some plains in the valleys of the heartland. This exquisite piece is no simple rendition of the chunky horses of the Ice Age European steppes. Show More Sentences During warmer periods the land turned into meadows and steppes, ideal grazing grounds for woolly mammoths, rhinoceroses, bison, horses, elk, and yaks. Olga was born and grew up on the steppes of southern Siberia. Groups of humans that remained in Africa might be expected to differ from those that migrated to the Russian steppes, the Asian archipelagos, or the Australian outback. Forested slopes of lodgepole pine and subalpine fir give way to aspen-clad foothills and rolling sagebrush steppes that have the spongy look of muskeg, but two shades lighter. But when the rains arrived, fresh carpets of zebra, wildebeest and Thomson's gazelles rolled out from the distant hills, transforming the treeless steppes. When first brought to France from the steppes of Russia, the Demoiselle Crane was so named by Queen Marie Antoinette, for its delicate and maiden-like appearance. During the following days, we will cross green frozen steppes, sandy deserts, narrow gorges and canyons, and all the guises that mountains are apt to take. Human cultures now spread from the subtropical regions into the steppes and temperate climes where the grasses could be selected to provide abundant food. Having invaded the Russian steppes alongside the Mongols in the thirteenth century, the Tatars were seen by medieval Russian chroniclers as the epitome of Oriental barbarism. But each year the number decreased until there was only one, which left in late February, 1995, to begin its long spring migration to Russia's steppes. Four mountaineers in the high steppes of northern Tibet and northeastern China have located the key calving ground of the chiru, a rare Tibetan antelope. The game may have its origin in ancient times, when herds of cattle grazed in the steppes and mountains and were exposed to the threat of attack by wolves. Most of the wormseed of commerce comes from the steppes of the northern portion of Turkestan whence it finds its way to Moscow and Western Europe. The diversity of climate zones in Colombia is characterized for having tropical rainforests, savannas, steppes, deserts and mountain climate. The steep gravelly slopes of the mountains and hills of the eastern slopes of the Southern Urals are mostly covered with rocky steppes. The steppes of the Southern Urals are dominated by hares and rodents such as gophers, susliks, and jerboa. Defeated and disgraced, Karacha fled south to the steppes of the Ishim, where Kuchum waited. Kuchum retreated into the steppes, and over the next few years regrouped his forces. He sailed up Lena until it became too rocky and shallow, and then journeyed westward through the steppes inhabited by nomadic Buryats. Their farming way of life was very different from the pastoral nomadism of the Mongols and the Khitans on the steppes. Show More Sentences When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth. The succession of armies and empires, tribes and khanates all appeared and disappeared from the steppes. Aristotle noted that cranes traveled from the steppes of Scythia to marshes at the headwaters of the Nile. Dens built among tree roots can last for decades, while those dug on the steppes last only several years. Tulips are most commonly found in meadows, steppes and chaparral, but also introduced in fields, orchards, roadsides and abandoned gardens. Some archaeologists believed it sprang from central Europe while others saw an influence from nomadic pastoral societies of the steppes. In 1441, in the southern Ukraine, especially Crimea and surrounding steppes, Genghisid prince Haci I Giray founded the Crimean Khanate. The central and eastern plateau, with its drier continental climate, has deciduous forests and forest steppes. A Turkic people, the Khazars, ruled the lower Volga basin steppes between the Caspian and Black Seas until the 10th century. Both the Xiongnu and Huns used bronze cauldrons, similarly to all peoples of the steppes. In 1200, he was sent by his father to rule the town of Pereyaslav near the Kypchak steppes. The landscapes of the Urals vary with both latitude and longitude and are dominated by forests and steppes. Chameleons inhabit all kinds of tropical and mountain rain forests, savannas, and sometimes deserts and steppes. The remains of the khan's army retreated to the steppes, and thus Yermak captured the Siberia Khanate, including its capital Qashliq near modern Tobolsk. In three breathtaking days of pogroms and horrific violence, the Okhrana, the Tsar's secret police, chase a motherless 17-year-old across the steppes of 1881 Russia. With its blend of Shamanist and Tibetan Buddhist art and culture against a breathtaking backdrop of golden steppes, Mongolia has become an exciting travel destination. The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west. To the south, the meadow steppes become more sparse, dry and low. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains as well as the deserts, steppes and grasslands east of this southern portion of the Andes. Golden eagles that breed from the Kola peninsula to Anadyr in the Russian Far East migrate south to winter on the Russian and Mongolian steppes, and the North China Plains. Show More Sentences The European polecat is absent from the Saratov steppes of Transvolga, instead being encountered only in the extreme lower Bolshoy and Maly Irgiz Rivers. Those of the eastern division, though dispersed about the steppes until late medieval times, were forced by the Mongols into the Caucasus, where they remain as the Ossetians. He mounted five military expeditions into the Mongol steppes and crushed the remnants of the Yuan dynasty that had fled north after being defeated by the Hongwu Emperor. Examples from Classical Literature Another species, the tarpan, roams the Steppes of Tartary, and is with great difficulty tamed to the use of man. Mizgir, a venomous spider, like the Tarantula, found in the Kirghiz Steppes. Other experiments in sylviculture at different points on the steppes promise valuable results. Some of the Uralian bears, centaurs of the steppes, Calibans on horseback, were never allowed to pass the Russian frontier. We sat by the window, cracking dried sunflower seeds, and looking out at the steppes of Little Russia. Herdsmen and their cattle cover the steppes and highlands, save where the tsetse fly prevents. It is to give the grass of the eastern steppes to the Turcoman horses to consume. Arid and extremely arid land are deserts, and semiarid grasslands generally are referred to as steppes. Of pastoral folk in the unmodified form the Kirghiz of the Asiatic steppes form perhaps the best example. It was a north-easter, laden with dust, and a sense of frozen Siberian steppes. The argali ranges over the steppes, or inland plains of Central Asia, northward and eastward to the ocean. This was kumiss, a fermented mare's milk which was the wine and water of the steppes. He supposes that, for long ages, they had lived as pastoral nomads on the steppes. On the Armenian highlands and on the steppes north of Pyatigorsk the rainfall is less than 12 in. I was often haunted by the thought of his sad figure in the midst of the steppes. The steppes of the Kura are also fertile, but require artificial irrigation, especially for cotton. They hold to the theory that Indo-European was spread by warriors from the steppes north of the Black Sea. They are also found on the steppes bordering the Caspian and Aral Seas. But my heart has gone to the Tartar war, To bleak Kansuh and the steppes of snow, Calling my husband back to me. Rather than give these up some of them would have sold half the steppes. Show More Sentences I will ride northward with you to the steppes of the kozaki. Thus, a few days ago, a German geometrician proposed to send a scientific expedition to the steppes of Siberia. He resembles the tarpan or wild horse of the Caspian steppes. The majority view in historical linguistics is that the homeland of Indo-European is located in the Pontic steppes around 6,000 years ago. Phrynocephalus is typical of the steppes and deserts of Asia. The travellers were now entering one of those great steppes of the Far West, where the prevalent aridity of the atmosphere renders the country unfit for cultivation. The party had landed on the border of a region that is, even to this day, less known to the inhabitants of the States than the deserts of Arabia, or the steppes of Tartary. Wolves of the steppes, snow, vodka, the knout, Shlusselburg, Holy Russia. Find more words! 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