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A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban
An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times The worlds first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in
Around 800 BC, the Eurasian steppe underwent a profound cultural transformation that was to shape world history for the next 2,500 years: the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Asia invented cavalry which, with the use of the compound bow, gave them the means to t