The Indus River Valley

The sea that appears to hem the continent in on either side was actually a busy highway connecting india, the persian gulf and the red sea. These roads were so well established that alexander the great was able to march his large army into the region of the punjab in the fourth century b c. And he would be followed by the persian kings, cyrus and darius and many other would be conquerors down the ages. But just as alexander had found out nearly a millennium before, spectacular conquests don't simply transform overnight into a stable empire. The newly conquered territories burst like a bubble and quickly broke off into separate moslem kingdoms stretching across the middle east

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