# Fascinating wiki on history of Siberia!

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**Created:** [June 10, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascinating-wiki-on-history-of-siberia/624678 "2012-06-10T03:25:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascinating-wiki-on-history-of-siberia/624678/1 "2012-06-10T03:25:53Z")

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Quite a read!

> **[History of Siberia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Siberia)**
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> The early history of Siberia was greatly influenced by the sophisticated nomadic civilizations of the Scythians (Pazyryk) on the west of the Ural Mountains and Xiongnu (Noin-Ula) on the east of the Urals, both flourishing before the common era. The steppes of Siberia were occupied by a succession of nomadic peoples, including the Khitan people,\[citation needed\] various Turkic peoples, and the Mongol Empire. In the Late Middle Ages, Tibetan Buddhism spread into the areas south of Lake Baikal.
> Dur...