Andrej, your analysis is an X-ray of our anthropological bankruptcy. You’ve demonstrated that the modern world is essentially a giant 'Rent-a-human' project, where technology mimics civilizational unity in places where it has long since evaporated.
For Kazakhstan, apart from the religious fault line dividing the Persian-influenced Sunni south from the Tengri north, the detatchment of Semirechye/Zhetysu seemed a given due to the fact that it often took rather different paths from the rest of the central steppe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_central_steppe#Eastern_third_(Zhetysu_or_Semirechye). Given that at this time it is populated by the Karluks, who speak a different, more distantly related branch of Turkic, it was an obvious candidate for secession in the simulation. The Nogai region in the west - there the case was not as strong , the ethnic and linguistic affinities were closer, but what was assumed, that a rump central and northern Kazakhstan would not be able to project power so effectively into a region that may gravitate rather towards Astrakhan than towards Astana
Andrej, your analysis is an X-ray of our anthropological bankruptcy. You’ve demonstrated that the modern world is essentially a giant 'Rent-a-human' project, where technology mimics civilizational unity in places where it has long since evaporated.
Fascinating analysys of Kazakhstan's cohesion. How do those logistical constraints amplify with sheer spacial scale?
For Kazakhstan, apart from the religious fault line dividing the Persian-influenced Sunni south from the Tengri north, the detatchment of Semirechye/Zhetysu seemed a given due to the fact that it often took rather different paths from the rest of the central steppe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_central_steppe#Eastern_third_(Zhetysu_or_Semirechye). Given that at this time it is populated by the Karluks, who speak a different, more distantly related branch of Turkic, it was an obvious candidate for secession in the simulation. The Nogai region in the west - there the case was not as strong , the ethnic and linguistic affinities were closer, but what was assumed, that a rump central and northern Kazakhstan would not be able to project power so effectively into a region that may gravitate rather towards Astrakhan than towards Astana