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330
Alexander the Great defeats the last Achaemenid, Darius III, in
Mesopotamia.
329-28
The invasion of Transoxiana and capture of Samarkand by the
Greeks under Alexander the Great, resulting in the rule of the
Greek Seleucids in both Bactria and Sogdiana.
318 B.C.-216 A.D.
The Asian Hun state.
318
Treaty alliance between the Huns (Hsiung-nu) and the five feudal
Chinese states against the Ts'in state. The first information about
the Huns in Chinese records.
300
Pazyryk culture: In the south-eastern Altai mountains.
256
The Ch'in dynasty takes over power from the Chou dynasty and
unifies China.
250
The Parthians take Sogdiana from the Greeks, leaving the latter
to rule on Bactria.
230-221
The weakening of the Huns, progress of China, and Parthians
against the Greeks in Persia.
221-210
The Ch'in emperor Shih Huang-ti built the 1845 km long Great
Wall of China against raids from the north.
220-210
China's control of the Ordos region, and Chinese sovereignty in
the steppes. Yuezhi (Sogdian?) sovereignty in Eastern Asia.
209-200
Mo-tun (Bagatur) (209-174) fights with his father T'u-man and
accedes to the head of the Hun state. He gains the obedience of his
neighbors. The Huns' golden age. Battles between the Huns and
the Vusun and Yuezhi (Sogdians?)
206
The Han dynasty is established in China by Kao-ti (206-195).
203
The Huns defeat the Indo-European Yuezhi in the region of the
Tienshan (Tengri mountains)-Kansu.
201
The Huns defeat the army of the Han Empire. A peace and friend-
ship treaty is signed. China accepts to give taxes to the Huns.
189-180
Sarmations attack the Scythians. The Huns take control over the
Western Region, northern Turkestan and the Vusun lands. All the
Turkish peoples of Asia are united under one flag.
The borders of the Hun Empire reach as far as Korea in the east;
Lake Baykal, and the rivers Ob, Iyrtysh and Ishim in the north;
the Aral Sea in the west; and the Wei river—Tibetan plateau-Qa-
raqoram mountains in the south.
169-160
The Parthians take Merv from the Greeks.
174-161
Driven from their homelands, Dzungaria and Yedisu, by the Huns,
the Yuezhi go the Afghanistan. They bring the Greek state estab-
lished by Alexander the Great in Bactria to an end.
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