Yeah. I Got Lost In A Research Hole.

It turns out I'm still not an expert in ancient Chinese history.

But you'd think I'd know that; "Saka" is an old Iranian word meaning; "One who wanders."

Apparently the first people to use horses for mounted cavalry.

So it sounds almost prophecy. That I probably won't be coming down on the side of the Uighurs.

Also Xinjiang was really the birth place of the Silk Road.

That trade root which really dominated all of human history for about 2,000 years.