Muslim dynasties like Tahirids, Saffarids, Ghaznavids, Samanids, and Ghurids rose from Afghanistan and stablished their dominion on central asia specially on Great Khorasan and paved the way for islamization of north of the Indian subcontinent in what is now called Pakistan. The Islamic conquest of Afghanistan influenced the culture of Afghanistan, and its pre-Islamic period of Zoroastrian, Buddhist and Hindu past has long vanished. Kuz'mina argues that the tents of Iranic-speaking nomads of Afghanistan developed from the light surface houses of the Eurasian steppe belt in the Bronze Age. The Iranian languages were developed by one branch of these people the Pashto language spoken today in Afghanistan by the ethnic Pashtuns, is one of the Eastern Iranian languages. Sitting on many trade and migration routes, Afghanistan may be called the ' Central Asian roundabout' since routes converge from the Middle East, from the Indus Valley through the passes over the Hindu Kush, from the Far East via the Tarim Basin, and from the adjacent Eurasian Steppe. The land served as " a center of the ancient Silk Road in central Asia, a gateway to Indian subcontinent, connecting China to western Asia and Europe, which carried trade from the Mediterranean to China". Īfghanistan (meaning "land of the Afghans" or "Afghan land") has been a strategically important location throughout history. Since then, many empires have established capitals in Afghanistan, including the Greco-Bactrians, Kushans, Indo-Sassanids, Kabul Shahi, Saffarids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Kartids, Timurids, Hotakis and Durranis. Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army arrived at what is now Afghanistan in 330 BCE after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire during the Battle of Gaugamela. The Indus Valley Civilisation stretched up to large parts of Afghanistan in the north. The written recorded history of the land presently constituting Afghanistan can be traced back to around 500 BCE when the area was under the Achaemenid Empire, although evidence indicates that an advanced degree of urbanized culture has existed in the land since between 30 BCE. The history of Afghanistan as a state began in 1823 as the Emirate of Afghanistan after the fall of the predecessor, the Afghan Durrani Empire, considered the founding state of modern Afghanistan.
5 different types of cavalry (mounted & dismounted).Present-day location of Afghanistan in Asia.Five scenarios covering the battles of:.Three massive one-day scenarios for each of the three days.‘Twilight’ scenario covering the key actions from the 2nd and 3rd day of the battle.Day three ended with the disaster of Pickett’s Charge.
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Day two was a day of a series of actions at both ends of the battlefield at Culp’s Hill and Little Round Top. The first day ended with the Confederates in control of the town of Gettysburg but they had failed to push on to take the high ground.
Lee’s, ending Confederate attempts to invade the North. Over three days General George Meade’s Army of the Potomac defeated the Confederate army of General Robert E. The battle resulted the largest number of casualties in any battle of the entire war, and was the turning point of the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought from 1st to 3rd July 1863, in Pennsylvania.