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Sentence Examples Down I rode from the Black Sea steppe to wreak vengeance on the men of Athens. Presumably it represents a steppe bison, a species that was relatively common in the Yukon and Alaska during the Mid-Wisconsinan interstadial. My driver had navigated through the arid steppe land without compass or map let alone one of those hateful satellite guidance systems. These wrens breed in rocky habitats, such as canyons, coulees, outcroppings, and talus slopes in the steppe and dry forests. It has achieved dominant status on tens of millions of hectares of former cold desert shrubland and sagebrush steppe vegetation. Last year, with a third world Championship under her belt, Louise gave it all up to share her moments of flight with Crossack, her steppe eagle. Its site on the over-farmed and eroded steppe guarantees frequent dust storms, howling winds and icy winters. He is also an outstanding mechanician and he is able to fixe an engine in the middle of the steppe making a missing piece with limited resources. After Datong, further north in Mongol country, the steppe stretches out monotonously to the horizon. A few kilometres from the last former Soviet army checkpoint, the tarmac ends and the journey to Ground Zero continues off-road, across the parched and endless steppe. At night you can hear the call of the Cape Eagle owl and during the day you might see bokmakieries, sunbirds, sugar birds, steppe buzzards, heron and many many more. It's so fascinating, going through the development of Turkic peoples, their languages, and culture, from the Mongolian steppe through central Asia and as far as Bulgaria. The term was applied initially to venturesome men who entered the steppe seasonally for hunting, fishing, and the gathering of honey. Soil zonation is simple in structure, with steppe soils and desert soils, both including those of the alpine group, predominating. Pale corsac foxes hunt through the steppe for rodents such as susliks. The original steppe was host to a myriad of species, including many small mammals such as susliks, pikas and voles, that are staple prey for sakers. Breeds in wetlands in the steppe and forest-steppe zones, and in mountainous areas along narrow, fast-flowing rivers. The steppe belongs to no one: everyone finds a place and leaves it when they're done. All you can see is the steppe and suddenly the village appears: a group of houses set in a square, along wide dirt tracks. The Pannonian Plain is another steppe region in eastern Europe, primarily Hungary. Show More Sentences At one point, some steppe bison crossbred with the ancestors of the modern yak. After that crossbreeding, a population of steppe bison crossed the Bering Land Bridge to North America. Their predecessor, the steppe bison appeared in the North American fossil record around 190,000 years ago. Within possibly 10,000 years, the steppe wildcat spread eastwards into Asia and southwards to Africa. The voice of steppe wildcats differs little from the housecat's, while that of forest wildcats is similar, but coarser. In the former Soviet Union, the fur of a forest wildcat usually fetched 50 kopecks, while that of a steppe wildcat fetched 60 kopecks. Analysis of modern Europeans' autosomal DNA also gives support to a large population displacement from the steppe into Europe. Bulgaria withstood the pressure from Pontic steppe tribes like the Pechenegs, Khazars, and Cumans, and in 806 destroyed the Avar Khanate. If rural populations continue to increase at their current rate, however, the impact of hunting and forest clearance could become a threat to the taiga and forest steppe ecosystems. Its landscapes, flora and fauna are extremely diverse-the region boasts alpine, coastal and steppe areas, as well as truly Mediterranean environments. This area hosts in particular endangered steppe birds. The population has decreased throughout its range due to rapid cultivation of steppe areas and either lack of grazing or high grazing pressure on remaining grasslands. Protection of wild birds: One case relates to a planned irrigation project in the province of Lleida in Catalonia that would severely affect an area hosting a number of steppe bird species protected under EU law. Unlike the steppe polecat, the European polecat has a much more settled way of life, with definite home ranges. It is probably absent in the southern Urals, where the steppe polecat occurs. From the mouth and lower course of the Don, its range passes into the steppe region of western and middle Ciscaucasia. Beyond this was a margin which included not only temperate areas such as Europe, but the dry steppe corridor of central Asia. The Mainz Sand Dunes area is now a nature reserve with a unique landscape and rare steppe vegetation for this area. They recede to the south and east, becoming a steppe landscape before meeting the Sahara desert, which covers more than 75 percent of the region. The Pechenegs were nomads roaming the steppe raising livestock which they traded with the Rus' for agricultural goods and other products. Show More Sentences Although whole bows rarely survive in European climatic conditions, finds of bone Siyahs are quite common and characteristic of steppe burials. Tang Taizong was cited by Yongle as his model for being familiar with both China and the steppe people. The plains usually have either a tropical or subtropical arid desert climate or arid steppe climate. The Jin dynasty fell after their defeat against the rising Mongol Empire, a steppe confederation that had formerly been a Jurchen vassal. The Sui and Tang carried out very successful military campaigns against the steppe nomads. Oregon's northeastern portion has a steppe climate, and the high terrain regions have a subarctic climate. According to the Ginghizide tradition, the local Turkic tribes were also called Tatars by the steppe nobility and, later, by the Russian elite. Both Azov and Black Sea Cossacks were resettled to colonise the Kuban steppe which was a crucial foothold for Russian expansion in the Caucasus. The shortgrass prairie steppe is the westernmost part of the Great Plains region. In South America, cold steppe can be found in Patagonia and much of the high elevation regions east of the southern Andes. Relatively small steppe areas can be found in the interior of the South Island of New Zealand. They built a system of principalities from the Volga south to the steppe and traded south to Byzantium and eastward to the Bulgars. The island is large enough to have its own lakes, and features a combination of taiga, steppe and even a small desert. In the open country favoured on the wintering grounds, steppe buzzards are often seen perched on roadside telephone poles. Here we find the earliest monumental kurgans, and the kurgan builders in turn influenced the steppe economies and their social organisation. On the cold, dry tundra, there were plenty of mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, steppe bison, horse and musk ox. Pastoralist economies have been the base of Eurasian steppe societies for millennia. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as sahel and steppe dominate. The Caucasus and Himalaya mountains and the Karakum and Gobi deserts formed barriers that the steppe horsemen could cross only with difficulty. For instance, the nomadic steppe peoples north of the Black Sea, including the Pechenegs and the Kipchaks, were called barbarians by Byzantines. Show More Sentences Gegeen was assassinated in a coup involving five princes from a rival faction, perhaps steppe elite opposed to Confucian reforms. The Belgian seemed out of gas before he began, pink-browed and gulping for breath, unlike the sterling Boqiev, who looked as if he should be on horseback, surveying the steppe with a falcon on his wrist. Especially a Mongolian shepherd boy on the steppe. We have this wind coming off the East River, and Robert Moses got rid of Walt Whitman's neighborhood of crannied streets, and what was left was a steppe. The Mongols aimed to revive, under a unified political system, the trade that had traditionally crossed the Central Asian steppe and vitalized the economy of the pastoral nomads. Mongolian Naadam is inseparably connected to the nomadic civilization of the Mongols, who have long practiced pastoralism on Central Asia's vast steppe. This protected swath of steppe and low mountain ranges is starkly beautiful, with the coirón grasses and spiny bushes providing a habitat for rhea, tinamou, pigeon and burrowing owl. The reporter was covering President Vladimir Putin's visit to southern Siberia, where wildfires raging through the steppe have killed at least 34 people. While there is little precipitation, giving the island a steppe climate, plants still have good access to water because the cold climate reduces evaporation. Merlins inhabit fairly open country, such as willow or birch scrub, shrubland, but also taiga forest, parks, grassland such as steppe and prairies, or moorland. The steppe bison spread across Eurasia, and all proceeding contemporary and successive species are believed to have derived from the steppe bison. The wolf holds great importance in the cultures and religions of the nomadic peoples, both of the Eurasian steppe and of the North American Plains. In Russia, however, it does occur in the forest steppe zone. The northernmost part of Asia, including much of Siberia, was largely inaccessible to the steppe nomads, owing to the dense forests, climate and tundra. The North Saharan steppe and woodlands is along the northern desert, next to the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of the northern Maghreb and Cyrenaica. The State Flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan is a rectangular breadth of blue colour with the image of the sun in its center with a soaring steppe eagle underneath. The Khazars dominated the Black Sea steppe during the 8th century, trading and frequently allying with the Byzantine Empire against Persians and Arabs. An area of great biodiversity, it is essential territory for steppe eagles and lammergeier vultures, as well as many other rare and threatened birds, mammals, and plants. Most of Russia consists of vast stretches of plains that are predominantly steppe to the south and heavily forested to the north, with tundra along the northern coast. Craters encompasses everything from volcanic splatter cones, cinder cones, and lava bombs to sagebrush steppe and the steep foothills of the Pioneer Mountains. Show More Sentences The mammoth steppe was a periglacial landscape with rich herb and grass vegetation that disappeared along with the mammoth because of environmental changes in the climate. You can trek on foot or horse in the spectacular Tian Shan or Altay Mountains, watch flamingos on steppe lakes or discover mysterious underground mosques near the Caspian Sea. There are hints that the Shaybanids were more connected to the steppe nomads and that the Taibugids were more connected with the forest peoples to the north and east. The colours and patterns of the steppe wildcat vary greatly, though the general background colour of the skin on the body's upper surface is very lightly coloured. The Channeled Scablands in Southern British Columbia and Washington State is an example of a steppe region in North America outside of the Great Plains. It is located on the steppe in northeast Kazakhstan, south of the valley of the Irtysh River, near the border of East Kazakhstan Province and Pavlodar Province. The steppe wildcat's coat is lighter than the forest wildcat's, and never attains the level of density, length, or luxuriance as that of the forest wildcat, even in winter. The first of Eurasian steppe pastoralists into copper age Europe. The European polecat is, however, not as maximally adapted in the direction of carnivory as the steppe polecat, being less specialised in skull structure and dentition. The steppe bison spread through the northern parts of North America and lived in Eurasia until around 11,000 years ago and North America until 4,000 to 8,000 years ago. Wolves hunt steppe cats, and may scavenge from snow leopard kills. For preserving racial superiority as the conqueror and ruling class, traditional nomadic customs and heritage from the Mongolian steppe were held in high regard. Cattle were raised on the open range in the western United States and Canada, on the Pampas of Argentina, and on other prairie and steppe regions of the world. While there is little precipitation, giving the archipelago a steppe climate, plants still have good access to water because the cold climate reduces evaporation. The modern European bison is likely to have arisen from the steppe bison. Marco Polo in medieval times admiringly described the moral qualities and rich traditions of the men and women of the steppe. The Kalmyks, as the republic's resident are know, were once Mongolia nomads who lived and practices their faith on the central Asian steppe. Cherson also served as a key diplomatic link with the Khazars and others on the steppe, and it became the centre of Black Sea commerce. The Levant became more arid and the forest vegetation retreated, to be replaced by steppe. The Middle Dnieper culture has very scant remains, but occupies the easiest route into Central and Northern Europe from the steppe. Show More Sentences It was a grassland steppe, including the land bridge, that stretched for hundreds of kilometres into the continents on either side. Most of the khanate territory was covered by forests, and only the southern part adjoined the steppe. Some sites were defended by ditches and banks, structures thought to have been built to defend against nomadic tribes from the steppe. This area has been described as perhaps being a relict of the Ice Age Mammoth steppe, along with certain areas along the northwestern border between Mongolia and Russia. After the Gothic entry to the steppe, many of the Alans seem to have retreated eastwards towards the Don, where they seem to have established contacts with the Huns. The rapid expansion of the Rus' to the south led to conflict and volatile relationships with the Khazars and other neighbors on the Pontic steppe. Examples from Classical Literature Have the fromager of the Cantal hills and the Caussenard of the Lozrien steppe their legends, folklore, songs? For they multiply like lice, and are as poisonous as the snakes that crawl in the steppe of Muhan. Do you get a strong net and ride me out to the steppe where we first saw the bird. The Baraba steppe is, for the most part, one vast marsh, extending from the left bank of the river Ob westward to Tumen. Cro-Magnon man had always been a reindeer hunter, accustomed and well adapted to the life and conditions of tundra or steppe. A portion of the steppe now assumes the aspect of a vast inland sea. The transition from the boulevards to the steppe was most refreshing. Now and then a hare was started in the thick tufts of steppe grass. Approaching it, he appeared to recognize his steppe and flocks. Find more words! 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