{"id":246450,"date":"2023-10-23T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=246450"},"modified":"2023-10-19T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T04:25:12","slug":"why-the-jews-of-khazaria-the-himyarites-and-gokturk-empire-are-keys-to-universal-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/why-the-jews-of-khazaria-the-himyarites-and-gokturk-empire-are-keys-to-universal-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Jews of Khazaria, the Himyarites and GokTurk Empire Are Keys to Universal History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Khazaria and the Forgotten Christian-Jewish-Muslim-Confucian Alliance\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GlLC45LBvqA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>18 Oct 2023<\/em> &#8211; With the fires of potential global war once again erupting across the Middle East, and with obvious anti-Jewish rage amplifying to an extreme degree, I would like to take a moment to follow up on a previous essay titled &#8216;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/2023\/10\/14\/the-peace-of-westphalia-as-a-lesson-in-solving-religious-wars-past-present-or-future\/\"  rel=\"\">The Peace of Westphalia as a Lesson in Solving Religious Wars Past Present or Future&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this investigation into the deep structure historical dynamics shaping our present world is not to simply romanticize bygone ages but to help clarify the principled dynamics that feudalistic oligarchs have been obsessively trying to destroy over the course of the past two millennia. I here refer to the dangerous outbreak of peace through cooperation that has tended to occur between religious rivals in never-ending wars across the ages.<\/p>\n<p>In this location, I would like to go a little deeper into the longer wave of history shaping our presently confused age by taking a look at the Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria (8-11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century CE).<\/p>\n<p>Taking the time to investigate this important part of world history is additionally important as China\u2019s New Silk Road currently represents the greatest hope for peace amongst various faiths and cultures not only in the Middle East, but globally. This is not the first time that the Silk Road ushered in a hope for a new age of reason amongst diverse cultures and as we shall soon see, the Kingdom of Khazaria played a major role in that endeavor which St Augustine called a\u00a0<em>City of God\u00a0<\/em>well over a millennium ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal aligncenter\" title=\"Image result for belt and road initiative middle east\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg 1456w\" alt=\"Image result for belt and road initiative middle east\" width=\"725\" height=\"416\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/2b61e360-ca61-425e-9dcf-a79b2c9cceb0_725x416.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:416,&quot;width&quot;:725,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image result for belt and road initiative middle east&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Figure 1 Today\u2019s New Silk Road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>The Mystery of Khazaria in the Modern Era<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Typically well informed readers who frequent alternative media either have never heard of the Jewish Khazar Kingdom that dominated central Europe, southern Russia and the Caucuses in the 7-10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century or IF THEY HAVE heard of it, they tend to believe that this Kingdom was the source of everything evil up until modern times. Many mainstream scholars tend to simply deny all evidence that this Jewish kingdom ever even existed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg 1456w\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"459\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/269a20d0-e01e-4624-bd29-19aa5a6acf7f_524x459.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:459,&quot;width&quot;:524,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Figure 2 The Kingdom of Khazaria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>I would like to take a novel approach to this anomalous matter of Khazaria and the broader role of Judaism in world history. Not only do I assert that bountiful evidence allows us to conclude that this Jewish Kingdom certainly did certainly exist, but all existent evidence points to the fact that it was the very opposite to a hotbed for \u201cevil Ashkenazi Jewry\u201d as so many lazy researchers have claimed. Instead, this report will attempt to prove that the forgotten kingdom was not only a beautiful phenomenon uniting all three major Abrahamic faiths under one ecumenical alliance of cooperation for well over a century, but also served as a keystone to the newly reborn Silk Road trade routes uniting Asia with Europe through the Confucian Tang Dynasty (618-912 CE).<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal aligncenter\" title=\"Image result for silk road tang dynasty\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg 1456w\" alt=\"Image result for silk road tang dynasty\" width=\"1000\" height=\"394\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/92c59060-de45-431a-88bd-c843e785cbb6_1000x394.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:394,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image result for silk road tang dynasty&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Figure 3 The Ancient Silk Road with a trade route through Russia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Much of the following report was made possible by the pioneering work of historian Pierre Beaudry in his online book\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amatterofmind.us\/history-2\/history-book-i\/\"  rel=\"\">The Charlemagne Ecumenical Principle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under a primitive version of Samuel Huntington\u2019s Clash of Civilizations doctrine, the Venetian Empire and the Ultramontane Church which were the heirs of the recently collapsed Roman oligarchy hated the rise of the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne and the Augustinian humanist educational and economic reforms enacted during Charlemagne\u2019s reign. More importantly, they hated the brilliant alliances Charlemagne oversaw alongside his co-thinker Harun al Rashid (Caliph of the Abassid Dynasty of Baghdad who ruled from 786-809 CE) and the new King Bulan of Khazaria who converted his kingdom to Judaism in the mid-8<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_246453\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ecumenical-leaders-Charlemagne-Harun-al-Rashid-King-Bulan-Emperor-Xuanzong.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246453\" class=\"wp-image-246453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ecumenical-leaders-Charlemagne-Harun-al-Rashid-King-Bulan-Emperor-Xuanzong.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ecumenical-leaders-Charlemagne-Harun-al-Rashid-King-Bulan-Emperor-Xuanzong.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ecumenical-leaders-Charlemagne-Harun-al-Rashid-King-Bulan-Emperor-Xuanzong-300x122.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ecumenical-leaders-Charlemagne-Harun-al-Rashid-King-Bulan-Emperor-Xuanzong-768x313.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-246453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 4- Four Great ecumenical leaders (left to right): Charlemagne, Harun al Rashid, King Bulan and Emperor Xuanzong<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>The Turkish Conversion to Judaism: The China Angle<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In 578 AD, the vast GokTurk Empire had extended from Mongolia, through Eurasia, all the way to Crimea in today\u2019s Ukraine. The empire that had arisen only 30 years earlier played a major diplomatic role in mediating relations between the Byzantine Empire (the surviving eastern Roman Empire) and the pre-muslim Sassanid Persian Empire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\">\n<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal\" title=\"File:G\u00f6kT\u00fcrk Empire.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg 1456w\" alt=\"File:G\u00f6kT\u00fcrk Empire.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d66675dc-5670-4b55-890d-8f22c29599db_800x389.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:389,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;File:G\u00f6kT\u00fcrk Empire.jpg&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Through a series of marriages with leading princesses of the short-lived western Wei dynasty, and Northern Zhou Dynasty of China (in 562 and 568), leading Khagans of the GokTurks became instrumental in facilitating the revival of the old trade routes of the Silk Road corridors that had fallen into disarray with the collapse of the Han Dynasty in 200 AD.<\/p>\n<p>With the death of the fourth ruler (Taspar Khagan) in 586, warring factions vied for control and a civil war broke out resulting in the eventual split of the Empire into an eastern and western division. Before the emergence of the Tang Dynasty in 618, various rival dynasties in China would also be a factor in the disarray that spread across Central and Eastern Asia during these chaotic years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\">\n<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal\" title=\"Turkic \/ Gokturk Khaganate (East-West) : r\/Tiele\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg 1456w\" alt=\"Turkic \/ Gokturk Khaganate (East-West) : r\/Tiele\" width=\"1000\" height=\"445\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/2ff594ba-f27b-4ca1-9b7a-157c0a9d9d63_1000x445.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:445,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Turkic \/ Gokturk Khaganate (East-West) : r\/Tiele&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Khazaria was first established in the mid-7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century by the western Turkish Khaganate that had become independent from any obedience to the eastern Turkish parent empire when the later had been defeated militarily by the Taizong Emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China in 643 CE. With the Western Khaganate\u2019s defeat (the eastern branch had been defeated by Li Jing in 630), only the most western branch of the GokTurks remained with Khazaria.<\/p>\n<p>With this 643 victory, the Chinese Emperor was made \u201cTengri Khagan\u201d (Heavenly King), supreme authority over all Turks. 100,000 Turks then migrated to China\u2019s vastly expanded realm and 10,000 Turkish elites settled in the capital. Letters from various Turkish leaders to the Tang court all the way until 741 CE continued to recognize China\u2019s emperors as \u201cHeavenly Khagan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en-academic.com\/dic.nsf\/enwiki\/10016\"  rel=\"\">Confucianism spread electrically<\/a> across the entire Turkic world and the newly independent Turks of the west quickly established a highly developed centralized government in Khazaria whose economy would be based primarily upon fisheries, and agriculture. Khazaria became a keystone in the Silk Road with primary routes of the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2014\/12\/in-the-steppes-of-the-ancients-travels-on-the-silk-road\/\"  rel=\"\">Steppe Silk Road<\/a>\u00a0going east-west over land from Uygur Territory in the east to western Crimea and export\/import lines along the Dnieper, Don and Volga Rivers which fed into the Caspian and Black Seas.<\/p>\n<p>Khazaria also held the vital\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/What-was-the-exact-route-of-the-Volga-Trade-route-and-the-trade-route-from-the-Varangians-to-the-Greeks\"  rel=\"\">North-South trade route<\/a>\u00a0along the Volga from Scandinavia through Central Russia to Islamic Iran and Azerbaijan. Since Venetian steered-wars with Islam made Mediterranean trade impossible, and also made it unsafe for Christians or Muslim merchants to move through each other\u2019s\u2019 territories, this Khazarian route was vital and the role of Jews indispensable for trade.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>Anomalies of Jewish Khazars<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The fact that Khazaria was founded by Turks with a strong link to China cannot be ignored. When evaluating this fact, we must hold three important facts in mind:<\/p>\n<p>1) Countless scholars have noted the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrks\"  rel=\"\">strong Confucian philosophy<\/a>\u00a0embedded in the western Turkish Khaganate that established the Kingdom of Khazaria before King Bulan\u2019s later conversion to Judaism sometime around 750CE. Even though they were shamanistic, the Confucian principle of the Mandate of Heaven was a core belief of the Khazarian turks.<\/p>\n<p>2) The presence of Jews in China at this time was anomalously large with the first recorded influx of Jews occurring in 618 CE with the start of the Tang Dynasty. As the Tang emperor revived the Silk Road trade routes that had fallen apart after the fall of the Han Dynasty in the 200 CE, Buddhists, Hindus, Nestorian Christians, Zoroastrians, Muslims and Jews flocked to China. This was an especially positive breath of fresh air for Jews as Professor Pan Guang stated:\u00a0<em>\u201cthey could preserve their native customs and religious beliefs\u2026 In education, work, buying and selling of land, marriage and the right to move, they enjoyed the same rights and treatment as Han Chinese. They never faced discrimination\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>This tolerant Chinese policy stood in stark contrast to the persecution and forced conversions had run rampant across the west. Major prosecutors of violence against Jews at the time was driven by Emperors Heraclius (610-641), Justinian II (685-695), Leo III (717-741) and Romanos I (920-944) of the Byzantine Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Much of this persecution stemmed less from religious reasons and more from geopolitical ones as the earlier\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/archaeology\/.premium-before-islam-when-saudi-arabia-was-a-jewish-kingdom-1.5626227\"  rel=\"\">Jewish Himyaritic Kingdom\u2019s conversion to Judaism<\/a>\u00a0in 380 CE disrupted Byzantine interests to control a vital shipping corridor (the Bab el-Mandeb Strait) into the Red Sea off the coast of today\u2019s Yemen. That\u2019s right, between 380 until 525 AD, a major kingdom occupying all of Yemen and major regions of Saudi Arabia was\u2026 Jewish. The surviving accounts of Himyarite Dynasty are as scarce as those of Khazaria, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/arts-letters\/articles\/himyar-yemen-al-qaida\"  rel=\"\">but if the accounts of the Christian Priest<\/a> Symeon of Beth Arsham who lived in the early 6th century are true, then it appears that a Himyarite leader named Yusuf (Joseph) had launched a coup in 524 followed by a persecution of Christians living in and around Yemen. This attack on Christians (if it was true) resulted in a total war of annihilation of Yusuf and the end to the Himyarite kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>3) The primary group in this early phase of the renewed Silk Road routes were Jewish Radhanite traders originating from the city of Radhan in Iraq. According to Persian scholar al Masudi (896-956), these Jewish traders spoke Arabic, Greek, Persian, Slavic, Spanish and Frankish and according to 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century geographer Ibn Khurdabhe, there were four Radhanite trade routes linking Europe to China. The primary and most active corridor moving through the Middle East and to Europe was \u201cthe Steppe Silk Road\u201d much of which under the jurisdiction of Khazaria.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>The Ecumenical Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Confucian Alliance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"\u00a7the-ecumenical-jewish-christian-muslim-confucian-alliance\" class=\"header-anchor-widget offset-top\">\n<div class=\"header-anchor-widget-button-container\">\n<div class=\"header-anchor-widget-button\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewehret.substack.com\/p\/why-the-jews-of-khazaria-the-himyarites?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=260045&amp;post_id=138066012&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=b6biw&amp;utm_medium=email\" >TO CONTINUE READING<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewehret.substack.com\/p\/why-the-jews-of-khazaria-the-himyarites?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=260045&amp;post_id=138066012&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=b6biw&amp;utm_medium=email\" >Go to Original \u2013 matthewehret.substack.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>_____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was also presented by the author as a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GlLC45LBvqA\"  rel=\"\">class<\/a>, as part of the RTF Lecture Series \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/risingtidefoundation.net\/upcoming-event\/\"  rel=\"\">The Renaissance Principle Across the Ages<\/a>\u201c.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Matthew-Ehret-e1581760221185.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-154102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Matthew-Ehret-e1581760221185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a> Matthew Ehret is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>, a \u00a0journalist, and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of <\/em>Canadian Patriot Review, <em>Senior Fellow at the American University of Moscow and host of<\/em> The Great Game <em>on<\/em> Rogue News. <em>He has authored the book series<\/em> The Untold History of Canada <em>and the recently published book series<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:The%20Clash%20of%20the%20Two%20Americas\">The Clash of the Two Americas<\/a>. <em>Email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:matt.ehret@tutamail.com\"><em>matt.ehret@tutamail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to go a little deeper into the longer wave of history shaping our presently confused age by taking a look at the Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria (8-11th\u00a0century CE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":154102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1185,260,2552,335,395],"class_list":["post-246450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-confucianism","tag-history","tag-jews","tag-muslims","tag-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246455,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246450\/revisions\/246455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}