January
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The Yuezhi were an ancient nomadic group of people from Central Asia who spoke an Indo-European language. It is likely that most people today are unfamiliar with the Yuezhi Civilization. As they were nomads, the Yuezhi are best-known for their migration westward, which had a chain reaction on the other civilizations in that region. The main sources of information regarding the Yuezhi are ancient Chinese records. Nevertheless, they have also been mentioned by some Western sources, and some of the coins minted by Yuezhi rulers have survived. The Yuezhi Homeland According to Sima (Zhang) Qian’s Shiji (known also as the Records of the Great Historian), which was completed towards the end of the 2nd century BC, the Yuezhi (月氏) were
