Lands of Asia layouts (Eng) 26.11.21

part ii | states
connected to initial changes in the ancient social structure. These processes led to
the formation of many kingdom-states in Central Asia and consequently to a new
political situation and new administrative practices in the territory of Transoxiana.
Iconography and the content of coin legends reveal that the replacement of old
dynasties and the coming to power of new ones took place in Bukhara, Kesh and
Nakhshab, Tokharistan and Chach. However, as Chinese textual sources tell us,
the power in possessions of Transoxiana was hereditary and passed from one
generation to another. If this was the case, then dynastic changes were reduced to
the transition of power within ‘one royal house’, and the rulers of the new dynasties
came from the same Kangju and Yuezhi families.
This transitional period, from antiquity to the medieval period, is one of the most
important in the history of statehood in ancient Uzbekistan and in Central Asia as a
whole.
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