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Topic: “yasak” system

“yasak” system

Years: 1500 - 1788

Yasak or yasaq, sometimes iasak, is a Turkic word for "tribute" that is used in Imperial Russia to designate fur tribute exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia.

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orator (46 BCE)