History of Afghanistan
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 162 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5131-2656-0
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The written history of Afghanistan can be traced back to the Achaemenid Empire ca. 500 BCE, although evidence indicates that an advanced degree of urbanized culture has existed in the land since between 3000 and 2000 BCE.Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army arrived to Afghanistan in 330 BCE after conquering Persia. It is the land where many powerful kingdoms established their capitals, including the Greco-Bactrians, Kushans, Indo-Sassanids, Kabul Shahi, Saffarids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Kartids, Timurids, Mughals, Hotakis, and Durranis. On many trade and migration routes, the land of Afghanistan is called the "Central Asian roundabout" since routes converge from the Tigris-Euphrates Basin via the Iranian Plateau, from the Indus Valley through the passes over the Hindu Kush, from the Far East via the Tarim Basin, and from the adjacent Eurasian Steppe. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в...