The People of Asia

Afghan Afghanistan Ainu Amur Anatolia ancient Arabia Arabs artefacts Asian Assam Bedouin Bengal Bhotia biological border Brahmins Bronze Age Burma caste cent central centre century China Chinese clusters coast coastal complex cultural Deccan desert Dravidian dynasty early east Asia eastern eastward élite empire ethnic Europe European foothills frequencies genetic Gonds groups Gujarat hair Hindu India Indus Valley inhabitants Inner Iran Iranian Islam Japan Japanese Korea land language later mainly major mesolithic migrations millennium million mixed Mongolia Mongoloid Mongols morphological mountain Muslim neolithic nomadic northern northward origin Pahari Pashto Pathans period Persian plains plateau populations Pradesh probably Punjab Rajput range region religious remains Semitic settlements Siberia Sinkiang skeletal social south-east Asia southern southward speakers steppe Syria Tajiks Tibet Tibetan tion trade traits tribal tribes Tungusic Turkestan Turkic Turkmen Turks Uralic western Asia Yellow River Yellow River basin zone