HISTORY OF KARAKALPAK ARMS AND MILITARY AFFAIRS IN THE XVII-XVIII CENTURIES

Abstract

Numerous scientific studies on the socio-political life, economy, agriculture, material and
spiritual culture and ethnography of the Karakalpaks in the XVII-XVIII centuries were
conducted and their results were published as works. Unfortunately, the history of armaments
and military affairs of the Karakalpaks at that time is one of the topics that has not been
consistently studied on the basis of sources to this day. In the analysis and generalization of
materials from written sources, historical literature and epics, the article relied on the
methods of scientific, objective, critical and comparative analysis of historical science,
followed the principles of continuity and continuity.