Socio-economic Development: Food and Clothing in Eastern Iran and Central Asia

Knowledge of the food and clothing of medieval Central Asia is difficult to attain; it is only through sporadic mention in sources that we can accumulate a picture of the diet and dress of the people who lived in these regions.  Variations in climate, region, wealth and class all had a large effect on the daily lives and habits of the inhabitants of Central Asia, resulting in changing customs in societies from Iran through to Western China and Mongolia.