The '''Kushan Empire''' was a relatively short-lived empire that controlled a vast area from the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea across the north and east of modern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and much of the Ganges valley in northern [[India]]. From the last years of the first century A.D. to its disintegration in the first half of the 3rd. it controlled all the land trade routes between the [[Mediterranean]], then under the [[Roman]]s at the height of its power, and [[China]]. | The '''Kushan Empire''' was a relatively short-lived empire that controlled a vast area from the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea across the north and east of modern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and much of the Ganges valley in northern [[India]]. From the last years of the first century A.D. to its disintegration in the first half of the 3rd. it controlled all the land trade routes between the [[Mediterranean]], then under the [[Roman]]s at the height of its power, and [[China]]. |