d="p0010">The Tarim Basin was wetter than today for most of the past 830 yrs.
dd><dt class="label">•dt><dd>d="p0015">Wet conditions correspond to Little Ice Age cooling.
dd><dt class="label">•dt><dd>d="p0020">Southward migration of rangelands facilitated spread of Mongol Empire.
dd><dt class="label">•dt><dd>d="p0025">Current warming could cause northward expansion of interior Asian deserts.
dd>dl>