Did anything of historical interest happen here prior to Russian colonization? Even the furthest dynastic Chinese expeditions only report making it to the Lake Baikal area.
The Nivkh were allied with the Mongols and paid tribute to the Yuan and Ming dynasties.
>>18045077>>18045093That - also the Turkic Yakuts migrated there during the Middle Ages which is kinda neat. Don't trust maps showing these northern borders of the Mongols so much. Their influence was practically indefinite and they could go as far north as they wanted, as primary sources hint at. According to Ibn Khaldun, I think, he talks about people being so poor up there that the Mongols just took people themselves as tribute.
>>18045077Wooley Mammot :D
>>18045077I mean you could count the Bering bridgeapart from thatNothing
Well your circled area includes Sakhalin, which we know was inhabited by Ainu for many centuries who eventually migrated to Hokkaido and from there had contact with the Emishi people of northern Honshu. Ainu were thought to have come to Sakhalin from the mainland, somewhere, so presumably that circled region contains the prehistoric Ainu homeland. Possibly the origins of the Jomon people as well.
>>18045077>>18045098the fact that the Mongols are nomads is undeniableBut is it true that they could stay there for a long time, given that they were pastoralists and there were tundra and forests in the north?I assume that there were raids, but not control over the territory, as in all other places where there was a developed civilization, or at least a culture.
Chinese and Mongol records focused on tributary regions, so Siberia was mostly peripheral in written history.
