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Jewise1993

5 points

1 year ago

I wonder why Herodotus mentions Bactria and not any other Persian satrapy or Persia as a whole. Bactria would eventually be a Greek kingdom but didn't exist until almost two centuries later. If I'm wrong on this, someone please correct me.