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The Khorasan Highway: The OG Silk Road

Assyria lasted thousand plus years but their empire couldn’t handle some Aryans on horses and the Medians.

Medians take over. Same playbook as Assyrian which builds resentment Cyrus uses to topple them and create Persian Empire.

Makes biggest empire to date. Runs off the Ionians (Greeks who remember. Alexander is coming to do the exact same thing but to them)

What a privilege it is to be a man of the West.