Editing History of Uzbekistan (section)

==Prehistory==
[[File:Skull of Teshik-Tash Boy.jpg|thumb|Skull of [[Teshik-Tash 1|Teshik-Tash]] Neanferthal child]]
In 1938 A. Okladnikov discovered the 70,000-year-old skull of an 8- to 11-year-old [[Neanderthal]] child in [[Teshik-Tash]] in Uzbekistan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/teshik-tash |title=Teshik-Tash &#124; The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program |publisher=Humanorigins.si.edu |date=2010-03-24 |access-date=2013-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131122105315/http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/teshik-tash |archive-date=2013-11-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  After this [[Central Asia]] was occupied by the [[Scythians]],  [[Ancient Iranian peoples|Iranian]] [[nomads]] who arrived from the northern grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan sometime in the first millennium BC. These nomads, who spoke [[Iranian languages|Iranian dialects]], settled in Central Asia and began to build an extensive irrigation system along the rivers of the region.  Cities such as [[Bukhoro|Bukhara]] (Bukhara) and [[Samarqand]] (Samarkand) began to appear as centers of government and culture. In the first millennium BC, [[Ancient Iranian peoples|Iranian]] [[nomads]] established [[irrigation]] systems along the rivers of [[Central Asia]] and built towns at [[Bukhara]] and [[Samarqand]]. These places became extremely wealthy points of transit on what became known as the [[Silk Road]] between China and Europe. 
[[File:Silk road with hexi corridor labelled, 1st century ce.svg|thumb|300x300px|The Silk Road extending from Southern [[Europe]] through [[Africa]] and [[Western Asia]], to [[Central Asia]], and eventually [[South Asia]], until it reaches [[China]], and [[Southeast Asia]]]]