Word: bactria
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Astride the silk and spice routes, the region, known as Bactria in ancient times, came under the influence of numerous cultures: Indian, Mongolian, Parthian (a Persian people), nomadic (from the Eurasian steppes) and even Roman. All collided with the Hellenistic Greek domination of Alexander the Great, who conquered Bactria in 331 B.C., and his Seleucid successors. Two centuries later, the Greco-Bactrian kingdom was overrun by nomadic groups, among them the Parthians, Saka from the steppes and five Central Asiatic tribes called the Yiieh-Chih...
...this point that Bactria's history becomes a mystery. Not until one Yüeh-Chih ruler united the five tribes circa A.D. 50 to form the Kushan dynasty does the record resume...
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