Reading paths

A reference work can be entered anywhere. These are the places to enter it in order: each path is a sequence of articles that build on one another, with a line on why each comes where it does.

The Turkic War of Independence in seven articles From a raid on the Chinese frontier to the taking of Ötüken, 542 to 552 Bumin Khan → Göktürk raid of 542 → Western Wei embassy of 545 → Defeat of the Tiele, 546 → Anagui → The Turkic War of Independence → Battle of Huaihuang, 552
The house of Bumin Five rulers and one assembly, 552 to 581 Ashina → Bumin Khan → Issik Khan → Mukan Khan → Taspar Khan → Succession crisis of 581 → First Göktürk Khaganate
What the Göktürk believed Sky, fortune, law, assembly and the sacred forest Tengrism → Kut → Töre → Toy → Ötüken → Kül Tegin inscription
The Rouran, from the other side The empire the Göktürk overthrew, told as its own story Rouran Khaganate → Tiele → Anagui → Battle of Dzungaria, 552 → Battle of Huaihuang, 552 → Issik Khan
Names, titles and claims What the words mean and who says so Khan (Khagan) → Yabgu → Ashina → The Turkic ethnogenesis debate
The civil war and the west How one khaganate became two, and what the western one became Succession crisis of 581 → Ishbara Khan → Töremen Apa → Tardush → Civil war, 584–603 → Bagha Khan → Göktürk–Persian war, 588–589 → Tulan Khan → Tong Yabgu → Western Göktürk Khaganate