Ancient Afghanistan: The Land of a Thousand Cities
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is the Oxus River the Centre of Civilization?
When you think of the classical mediterranean, if you're thinking of a really fertile river that hlpd create this incredible civilization around it, i normallyu think of the river nile. And what's rather curious to day is that rivers in our modern world tend to be the borders of nations. You know, we find them as rather convenient lines on a map. It's much better than an arbitrary line across a mountain. But in history, they were the centre of civilization.
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