Tahmasp I guaranteed Commitment to pay 300 Tomans to the Uzbeks to convince them not to invade the bondmen and nomads of Khorasan .

In the first millennium BCE the Tarim Basin was inhabited by the Indo-European Yuezhi nomads .

In the second century BCE the region became Becoming part of the Xiongnu empire , a confederation of nomads centered Placing on present-day Mongolia .

Han Empire eventually prevailed Conquering over the northern nomads , and the war Hostile_encounter allowed Preventing_or_letting the Han Empire 's political influence Influence expanded Expansion deeply into Central Asia .