Entities depicted on its coinage include Animos, Sarapis, and Oisho, reflecting its diverse religious background.
Entities depicted on its coinage include Animos, Sarapis, and Oisho, reflecting its diverse religious background. Extenseive trade between it and the Roman Empire at its summer capital of Begram is described in the Book of the Later Han. It was first united under Heriaos, a member of the Yuezhi clan, and it was under the rule of this empire that the Gandhara kingdom of the Peshawar Valley attained its cultural height, producing gigantic statues of the Buddha. For 10 points, identify this first to third century CE Indian trade empire along the Silk Road, whose territories spanned from Afghanistan in the north to the Ganges River valley in the south.
Entities depicted on its coinage include Animos, Sarapis, and Oisho, reflecting its diverse religious background.
the {Kushan} Empire