Central and northern asia
Back to Central and Northern Asia: 400 to 301 B.C.
The homeland of the Parthians was on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea and about 247 B.C. they moved south, taking territory away from the Seleucids, under their leader, Arsaces. Bactria became independent at 250 B.C. as a Greco-Bactrian kingdom under Diodotus, and it became the center of a web of caravan routes linking Siberia and China with India, Persia and the Mediterranean cities. (Ref. 8 ) Farther north in Siberia, Tagar Culture groups continued as in recent centuries. In Inner Mongolia, the Hsiung-nu was just forming as the first great confederation of Altaic-speaking nomads. (Ref. 101 ) Afghanistan was ruled by the Maurya Dynasty of India, until this entire area was reclaimed by the Syrian Antiochus III at the end of the century.
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