PERSIANS - THE FIRST PEOPLE IN CENTRAL ASIA

Persians were the first people in Central Asia in the human history. We had different tribes with different names. Tocharians (Tchari, Yuezhi), Wusun (Issedones), Sakae (Sakas), Massagetae, Dahae, Scythians (Saceans), Thyssagetae, Siraces, Lagae, Sarmatians, Khorasmia, Parthia, (Apasiacae), Dayuan, Alans (Aorsi, Yen-tsai), Maeoti, Chionites, Kangju (Sogdians,Suguda), Chorasmia (Khwarazm) were all ancient Persian tribes long before 500 BC.

Turkics/Turks are Turko-Mongolian Tribes originated from today's Mongolia area. Uyghur Empires (742-848 AD) was in today's Mongolia with the capital at Ordu Baliq that located 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar (close to Town of Hotont). Uyghurs was the first among all the Turkics/Turks to read and write even it happened very late in human history. We Sogdians taught Uyghurs how to read and write only after they escaped to Tarim Basin from Kyrgyz annihilation of Uyghur Empire in Mongolia in 840AD.