Ancient Afghanistan: The Land of a Thousand Cities
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Bactria, the Land of a Thousand Cities?
There is this famous quote from ancient history of bactria being the land of a thousand cities. There are probably 30 great sortof city fortress sites within that lot of them ar smaller size. The vagaries and machinations of the amudaria, it defines and almost enables civilization. You have to follow the river. When the river moves, like in the case of gone, even though it dies out long before 800 b c, it obviously evidences the great climatic changes. If we're trying to understand global warming and oscillations of climate change, you can't begin at 50 years ago. We've got to go back to anecdotal, historic evidence to show that this world has
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