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Alexander the Great Reaches South Asia

360 BCE

The campaigns of Alexander III of Macedon establish new Hellenistic polities through West Asia, including present-day Iran and Afghanistan. Based in territories formerly ruled by Persia and proximate to Central Asia, these polities — especially the Greco-Bactrian and subsequent Indo-Greek kingdoms — are distinguished by a high degree of cosmopolitanism in their ruling classes, and their art.

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Tanner, Stephen. Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002.

Thapar, Romila. The Penguin History of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300. London: Penguin Books, 2003.

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