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	Kushan Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kushans adopted elements of the Hellenistic culture of Bactria.
		The Kushans are again recorded to have sent presents to the Chinese court in 158–159 during the reign of the Chinese emperor Han Huan.
		These remnants of the Kushan empire were ultimately wiped out in the 5th century by the invasions of the White Huns, and later the expansion of Islam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kushan_Empire (2389 words)

	Kanishka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kanishka (Kushan language: ΚΑΝΗϷΚΙ, Ancient Chinese: 迦腻色伽) was a king of the Kushan Empire in South Asia, in the 2nd century of the common era, famous for his military, political, and spiritual achievements.
		Kanishka was the successor of Vima Kadphises, as demonstrated by an impressive geneaology of the Kushan kings, known as the Rabatak inscription.
		In spite of the acknowledged dominance of the Kushan empire during his reign, until recently scholars have not been able to agree on the period of his reign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanishka (2418 words)

	Persian Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ismail's expansion was halted by the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514, and war with the Ottomans became a fact of life in Safavid Iran.
		The German Empire retaliated on behalf of its ally by spreading a rumour that Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany had converted to Islam, and sent agents through Iran to attack the oil fields and raise a Jihad against British rule in India.
		The Persian Empire is the seat of power for the sultan Shahryar, husband of Scheherazade in the 1001 Nights--though the tales themselves span from China to the Middle East and even parts of North Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persia (4761 words)

	Kushan empire new discoveries presented in History section
		Soon the Kushan Empire spread from Central Asia in the north to the plains near Mathura.
		He extended the Kushan Empire to the north to such an extent that he came into open conflict with the Chinese armies of the Hun Empire, in Central Asia.
		With the disintegration of the Mauryan Empire, the Indo-Greeks moved towards India and captured parts of Punjab, Kabul valley, and the province of Gandhara.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/kushan_empire_new_discoveries (1289 words)

	All Empires History Forum: History of Central Asia - an overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Kushan Empire, along with the Parthian Empire, was also an example of agricultural states of nomadic origin.
		On the steppes, the scarcity of permanent cities meant that empires were constantly built and destroyed, and that groups migrate at the dynamics of these power shifts.
		The Jin Empire finally fell in 1234 and the Mongols extended their empire westward, incorporating the Sultanate of Rum, all of the western steppes and most of Russia by the 1240s.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8034&PN=1 (4284 words)

	BookRags: Kanishka Biography
		Kanishka was the greatest ruler of the Kushan Empire, a realm that covered much of present-day India, Pakistan, Iran and other parts of central Asia and China during the first and second centuries.
		Kushan holdings in central Asia gave them control of a number of major trade routes and ports, and traders were charged significant fees to transport goods through these routes.
		The Kushans were also enriched by the new ideas and artistic influences that they gained from their interactions with other cultures ranging as far as the Roman Empire in the west to China in the east.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/kanishka (1165 words)

	History of Afghanistan
		Real nomadic political power in Afghanistan was, however, first established by the Yueh-chih who, forced from their grazing lands on the Chinese border, enter this story as a loose confederation of five clans.
		The heart of his empire centered around two capitals: the summer capital of Kapisa, north of Kabul near the modern towns of Begram and Charikar, and, Peshawar, the winter capital.
		What emerged was a vibrant and indigenous culture born of the fusion of western-oriented Bactrian ideals with those from eastern-oriented India, interpreted by the forceful, free character born on the steppes of Central Asia.
	www.afghanan.net /afghanistan/kushans.htm (980 words)

	Education World® - History : Classical / Ancient : Asia : India : Kushan Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)*
		General History of The Kushan Empire Details the Yuchi confederacy and the Kushan battle with the Bactrian kings.
		Kushan Empire Describes the kingdom built by nomad invaders of Parthia and Bactria.
		Kushan Empire and Central Asia Describes the central region of Kushan power and influence, Gandhara.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=10644 (198 words)

	CoinArchives.com Search Results
		Kushan, Wima Takhto (Soter Megas) (c.A.D. 55-105), AE Units (3), 1/2-Unit: the first with bull /camel, Kharosthi script naming Wima Takhto around, the others: king mounted on horse / radiate bust (MAC.2895, 2938, 2939, 2999), good very fine to extremely fine; Wima Kadphises (c.A.D.105-130),...
		Kushan, large copper units (9): Kanishka (c.130-158AD), Mithra (4), Vado (2), Siva with 4 arms; Huvishka (c.158-195), Heracles and Siva with trident, mostly good fine to very fine, better condition than usual for this series (9) Estimate £ 200-240...
		Kushan, copper 1/4-units (21): Wima Kadphises (3), Kanishka and Huviska, reverses depict a variety of deities, mostly fine or better (21) Estimate £ 120-150...
	www.coinarchives.com /a/results.php?results=100&search=Kanishka&Thumb=1 (2386 words)

	Historical Background - Pak History \| History of India \| History of South Asia - South Asian Muslims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This was about the middle of the first century A.D. The Kushans overthrew the Saka-Parthian princes and established an empire which became one of the world's greatest and most distinguished both from the point of view of territory as well as cultural and religious achievements.
		The Kushans, with their capital at Purushapura (Peshawar) had their dominions on both sides of the Hindu Kush i.e., extending up to and including parts of Turkistan in the north-west, embracing the whole of modern Afghanistan, and in the east the entire Pakistan and major portion of northern India.
		Gandhara i.e., the territory lying in the valleys of the Kabul and the Middle Indus, became the centre of a vast empire.
	www.pakhistory.com /hbackg/thekushans.php (1424 words)

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		Kushan coins tell great deal about the images of the kings as they wished to be seen by their subject.
		Kushan empire was at it's peak in terms of area during his and his son's reign.
		Most early Kushan emperors minted coins depicting Shiva but coins showing three-headed Shiva (2, 4 or 6 armed) are shown to be minted by only Huvishka and Vasudeva I. Shown above is an example which clearly indicates that even Kanishaka II minted three-headed Shiva coins, the fact which was obviously overlooked.
	www.med.unc.edu /~nupam/kushan1.html (2499 words)

	Custom3
		The Kushan were a central Asian people, originally from Uyghur Region, who had settled in five kingdoms in what is now Afghanistan.
		Kushan emperors opened and protected the Silk Road, a major trade route for caravans carrying silk and other luxury goods from China to India and the Middle East.
		The Kushan Empire adopted Buddhism as its official religion.
	uyghur.50megs.com /custom3.html (627 words)

	Notes on Kushan Military forces
		It includes the periods before and after Kushan dominance and is concerned with relating three things to the reader, the evidence on the Kushan military, how this is commonly interpreted, and the assumptions that can be made to fill the gaps.
		If the reader has a particular interest in the military of the Kushan period the only book presently dedicated to it is Valerii P Nikonorov's work The Armies of Bactria which has been used extensively throughout this short outline though I disagree with him on a number of points.
		The largest change from the time of the Great Kushan period is the reduction in the size of the empire, at not time did the area ruled ever return to the size and influence of the period under the Kushan emporers.
	www.keele.ac.uk /socs/ks45/PageHistory/Club/bracey/Kushan/Military/notes.htm (1910 words)

	KushanEmpire.htm
		At the present time the knowledge about start of Kushan empire is not clear.
		Around 233 CE western part of Kushan Empire was lost to Sasanian Empire.
		Kushans ruled the eastern part of their empire till 360 CE.
	worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C3/India/KushanEmpire/KushanEmpire.htm (153 words)

	Kushan history, a rough guide to India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and eastern Iran
		The period draws its name from a tribe of the Yu-Chi confederation, the Kusana, who founded an Empire contemporary with that of the Later Han in China, and the Roman Empire of Augustus.
		There are also reviews of books that are directly related to Kushan studies as well as books on diverse areas of Indian and Central Asian history, art and numismatics.
		There is a general history of the Kushan period from the early migrations of the Yu-Chi to the later Kushans and Kushan-Shahs.
	www.kushan.org (281 words)

	Arguments on the date of the ascension of the Great Kushan King Kanishka.
		Kanishka is the most famous of the Kushan kings, he is preserved in Bhuddist tradition as the king responsible for calling the second great Bhuddist council.
		This particular problem has inspired a lot of the material on the Kushan empire and even two London conferences on the subject, the first in 1913 and the most recent in 1960.
		However if the disintegration of the Kushan empire after Vasudeva was the result of Sassanid invasion Vasudeva's reign must have ended some time in the first quarter of the third century, giving a range of dates for Kanishka some time between 100 and 125.
	www.keele.ac.uk /socs/ks45/PageHistory/Club/bracey/Kushan/digressions/Kanishka.htm (1332 words)

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		The capital of the Mauryan Empire, Pataliputra (modern Patna), was begun as a Magadhan fortress and became the capital sometime after Ajatashatru's reign.
		According to tradition, the Shishunaga dynasty founded the Magadha Empire in 684 BCE, whose capital was Rajagriha, later Pataliputra, near the present day Patna.
		The Sunga dynasty was established in 185 BCE, about fifty years after Ashoka's death, when the king Brihadratha, the last of the Mauryan rulers, was brutally murdered by the then commander-in-chief of the Mauryan armed forces, Pusyamitra Sunga, while he was taking the Guard of Honour of his forces.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Magadha (1379 words)

	The Sussanian Invasion on Afghanistan
		The Kushan Empire spread from the Kabul River Valley to defeat other Central Asian tribes that had previously conquered parts of the northern central Iranian Plateau once ruled by the Parthians.
		The disunited Kushan and Sassanian kingdoms were in a poor position to meet the threat of a new wave of nomadic, Indo-European invaders from the north.
		By the middle of the sixth century the Hepthalites were defeated in the territories north of the Amu Darya (the Oxus River of antiquity) by another group of Central Asian nomads, the Western Turks, and by the resurgent Sassanians in the lands south of the Amu Darya.
	www.zmong-afghanistan.com /sussanian.asp (481 words)

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		The Yüeh-chih conquered Bactria in the 2nd century BC and divided the country into five chiefdoms, one of which was that of the Kushans (Kuei-shuang).
		The Kushans were instrumental in spreading Buddhism in Central Asia and China and in developing Mahayana Buddhism and the Gandhara and Mathura schools of art.
		These coins, which exhibit the figures of Greek, Roman, Iranian, Hindu, and Buddhist deities and bear inscriptions in adapted Greek letters, are witness to the toleration and to the syncretism in religion and art that prevailed in the Kushan empire.
	www.sabawoon.com /afghanpedia/Dynasty.Kushan.shtm (216 words)

	Search Results for "Kushan"
		He was the most powerful and renowned ruler of the Kushan dynasty, one of the five tribes of the Yueh-chih who had divided...
		4 78-180 C.E KUSHAN EMPIRE was the strongest state in the era of instability.
		A certain Kushan dynasty founded by the Indo-Scythians —one of the raiding peoples—ruled...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Kushan (292 words)

	The White Huns - The Hephthalites
		They not only destroyed part of Sassanian Empire in Iran but also intervened in their dynastic struggles when the Sassanid royal, Kavad (488-496), was fighting for the throne with Balash, brother of Peroz.
		During the 5th century, the Gupta dynasty in India reigned in the Ganges basin with the Kushan empire occupied the area along the Indus.
		Since the Kushan was conquested by Hephthalites, it is possible they retained many aspects of Kushan culture, including the adoption of the Greek alphabet.
	www.silk-road.com /artl/heph.shtml (1209 words)

	The Utilization of Buddhism in Kushan Politics and Economy Under Kanishka I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was an empire full of diversity and eclecticism as illustrated through the variety of peoples under their rule; this variety would in turn affect the approaches the Kushan kings took in ruling their dominion.
		Both the textual evidence and the casket serve as windows into cognitive aspects of Kanishka’s empire; they confirm the idea that Buddhism was used to legitimize the king’s rule and to portray him as the strong, intelligent, and rightful heir to the Kushan Empire.
		More specifically with the issue of the legitimization of kingship the texts allow archaeologists and scholars to understand the mentality of the citizens under the Kushans; the goal of ‘legitimization’ is to convince the population that the present person sitting in the throne actually belongs to him and no one else.
	neareasternstudies.tripod.com /id13.html (4468 words)

	Leslie Sacks Fine Art - Kushan Background
		The Kushan Empire was a Central Asian empire, whose name was derived from the term Guishang, which describes a branch of Yue Qi nomads who were of Indo-European descent.
		Under Kushan rule there was a wealth of trade with China, central Asia, Rome and Egypt, which made the empire strong and prosperous.
		The Gandhara region was the core of the Kushan empire and was home to a multiethnic society.
	www.lesliesacks.com /gallery/artistPages/kushan/kushanbio.htm (209 words)

	sassanian
		Possibly a deity from north western India, identified as a king amongst gods, was depicted in Sassanian dress because in that region, this style retained its prestige and represented authority.
		Although the Kushan empire declined at the end of the 3rd century, leading to the rise to power of an indigenous Indian dynasty, the Guptas, in the 4th century, it is clear that Sassanian influence remained relevant in the north-west.
		To the Sassanians, ruling a vast empire, the visual image of the emperor was an important weapon in maintaining authority, the steadfast, heroic image, seen dispensing justice, tending the sacred flame or fearlessly hunting lions, put him on a different level from his subjects.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/0100_0199/kushanart/sassanian/sassanian.html (671 words)

	Sticky Story of the Week!
		During the remaining centuries before the coming of Islam in AD 711, the White Huns, Indo-Parthians, and Kushans shared control of what is today Pakistan with the Seleucid Persian empire which dominated much of western and southern Pakistan.
		By the end of his reign, Mahmud's empire extended from Kurdistan in the west to Samarkand in the northeast, and from the Caspian Sea to the Yamuna.
		Before 1160, the Ghaznavid Empire covered an area running from central Afghanistan east to the Punjab, with capitals at Ghazni, a city on the banks of Ghazni river in present-day Afghanistan, and at Lahore in present-day Pakistan.
	www.rungg.com /streetTeams/pages.php?goto=story0061 (1997 words)

	Afghanistan Country Study
		The Kushans, whose empire was among the most powerful of its time, were pushed into the Hindu Kush area by the Hsiungnu (Huns) of Central Asia, who had themselves been thwarted in their attacks on China by the powerful Han Dynasty.
		The Kushan Empire was a center of trade, especially in silk, and the Buddhism of its rulers followed trade routes into East Asia, with which Kanishka and his successors maintained commercial relations.
		The disunited Kushan and Sassanian kingdoms were in a bad position to meet the threat of a new wave of nomadic, Indo-European invaders from the north.
	www.gl.iit.edu /govdocs/afghanistan/PreIslamic.html (1464 words)

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