Given the recurrent attacks by Moghol soldiers on the area, and the ensuing settlement amongst, and contact with, the people of this area of Central Asia, it is inevitable that the Moghols must have played a formative role in the culture and development of the Hazara people.
Furthermore, the Hazaras are partly descended from relatives of Moghol warriors, serfs, and descendants of Moghol feudal lords, themselves related to Changiz’z commanders.
In the travelogues of Oghouz, the original ancestor of the Moghols, the people of this area are referred to as Qarloq, meaning the “children of snow”, because of its cold climate (ibid:23).
At the beginning of the seventh century, the Moghols advanced on Iran, decimating the countryside in the process and conquering all the lands between Baghdad in the far west and the Chinese coast in the far east.
During the period of Moghol consolidation, China itself was experiencing a renaissance of sorts, as art and other elements of "high culture" achieved greater prominence within Chinese society.
However, as time and Moghol imperialism stabilized the cultural transactions between Iran and China, the artists of the Persian tradition accepted the influence of Chinese culture on their own terms, utilizing the specific techniques of Oriental painting in the cause of Iranian art.
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