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'No one has Ever conqured afghanistan'

posted 14 years ago by saddamqwerty
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Not true both Alexander the great and genghis khan did it. Maybe it takes a military genius along these lines, but it has been done before

[–] Saifullahraza 14 years ago

As far as my knowledge is concerned, it has never been conquered. Alexander couldn't conquered it.

[–] saddamqwerty 14 years ago

Yeah he did look at the map it sure looks like he conquered most of it at least
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/worldhis/map11.gif
as for genghis khan heres a map

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Mongols-map.png
notice how all of Afghanistan is conquered.

[–] ztpt 14 years ago

The whole "the place where empires goes to die" thing is a myth..A-stan has been conquered and part of larger empires numerous times

[–] txsiimk 14 years ago

it should actually be said that no one has ever conquered and HELD Afghanistan.

[–] Storm_Thunder_Infantry 14 years ago

No country has ever conquered and held another.
Occupations always have their own expiration dates.
Afghanistan is no exception.

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[–] Bluehawk2008 14 years ago

When will the native Americans throw out the Europeans?

[–] Thirdover4 12 years ago

"When will the native Americans throw out the Europeans?"

The Romans held many regions for centuries. Many of the European territories were occupied by foreign armies at some point until the two cultures simply blended together, i.e. Britain.

[–] saddamqwerty 13 years ago

Genghis held is for some time. Also Timu the Lame conquered afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Timurid_Dynasty_821_-_873_%28AD%29.png
Also the Sassanids had control of most of it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Sassanid_empire_map.png

[–] HellBellsLiveWired 13 years ago

Nobody has ever wanted Afghanistan bad enough to hold it. Until they discovered oil that is.

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[–] bbgunpop 13 years ago

Previously it wasnt important enough to keep. The British empire could of taken it, at the expense of weakening its hold on other more important places. I think Afghan is always seen as a buffer state, e.g in the British Empire times it was important to make sure the Russians didnt get it and threaten British India, today it is basically a perfect excuse for a huge western presence near very important nations such as China, Russia, Pakistan, India, the rest of the middle east and central asia. And its full of minerals, gas, oil and has a monopoly on heroin world wide.

No one wants to keep afghanistan and develop it properley as it just doesnt seem worthwile, and there are so many different races and religions of people that are just hard to control.

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[–] nakedgirl 10 years ago

yeah,haven't you ever read the charge of the light brigade

[–] MacMurrah 10 years ago

Charge of the light brigade was during the Crimean War fool.

[–] bigmal (93) 7 years ago

The Afghanistan area has been invaded many times in recorded history, but no invader has been able to control all of its regions at the same time, Alexander may have won the battles but he never defeated the Afghanny people.

[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 7 years ago

If I remember well there is a reference to this in Rambo III (ridiculous movie but here and there it had some interesting facts, just like Rambo II).