The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan
Payne, Richard E. / King, Rhyne
The territory of modern Afghanistan provided a center - and sometimes the center - for a succession of empires, from the Achaemenid Persians in the 6th century BCE until the Sasanian Iranians in the 7th century CE. And yet these regions most frequently appear as comprising a "crossroads" in accounts of their premodern history.
This volume explores how successive imperial regimes established enduring forms of domination spanning the highlands ...