| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Looked at from a steppe point of view, China and Europe, together with the cultivable areas of the Middle East, were no more than unusually large oases fed by moisture from adjacent oceans and from the Mediterranean and other inland seas.Resources available for human life in these favoured regions were obviously more plentiful than in the steppe; and nomadic peoples, even when attached to their ow
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