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Could a settled/sedentary empire have controlled Central Asia, or is it always doomed to be dominated by Horse Nomads in pre-modern times?

The empire doesn't have to be local or based there - Persia/Iran managaging to keep control of it works too - but that would be cool.

There are some OTL examples of settled/sedentary peoples in Central Asia - the Oxus Civilization, some cities founded along the Silk Road - but they all were either way too weak and small to really control anything or they were crushed by Horse Nomads.
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