Crisis of the Seventh Century (Afraid of a Shadow)

Crisis of the Seventh Century refers to a time period in Central Asia, near the Transoxiana region, from around 616-658 AD. It ultimately led to the collapse of the Western Turkic Khaganate, and its partition between the Tang Dynasty of China and the Second Turkic Khaganate. Although these events are recorded in great detail by contemporary historians of Europe and Asia, it is not clear to modern scholars how or why the crisis originally took place.