It was during the Islamic period, 700-1709 that Afghanistan began to assume its temporary form. The country began to appear during the eighteenth century and emerged at the end of the century as a budding empire spreading west and southward.

In Afghanistan around 3000BCE-2000BCE the first true urban centers were founded, Mundigak and Deh Morassi Ghun. Mundigak (modern day Kandahar) had an economic base of wheat, barley, sheep and goat. With this evidence the idea that the original inhibitors of Afghanistan were from the Indus River Civi

Beginning in the seventh century, the spread of Islam eastward local rulers and swept northeast into Central Asia and south toward the Indus River valley. Over the span of three centuries, the following of Islamic rule diffused from ruling classes into the classes of peasants, by the time of The Ghaznavids in the tenth century most of the middle East had become Muslim. The only exceptions to this massive uniformity were in the many Jewish communities scattered about, and Buddhist strong holds.

In 2000-1500 BCE the Aryan tribes came into Afghanistan they were originally a tribe of herders who spoke one language. The city of Kabul was established during this time.

The continuity of the medieval Islamic period shows that Afghan territory was used that the propagators of many causes in India, particularly but not only under the Ghaznavids, the destruction wrought by the Mongol armies in the thirteenth, and the recursions of Turkic Central Asians into this region. Last and most dominate conquerors, Babur (d.1531), the poet-soldier

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, Asia Indian, Islamic Islamic, BCE Aryan, Persian Empire, Marco Polo, Indus River, Persia Greek, Afghanistan Afghanistan, Ghun Mundigak, persian empire, islamic period, indus river, day kandahar, central asia, middle east, earlier periods,