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Afganistan has been through a turbulent history. As the linchpin between the middle east, the lindian subcontinant and the rest of asia, afganistand has alwasy been a target of war and strife. in addition, the afgan people are made up of many diffrent cultural groups. their by defeting cultural assimilation, die diffrences between their diffrent religions and cultures, and their apparent unwillingness to work togahter, have prevented the afgani people from truly uniteing into an afgaini people. the history of afganistan can be divied into three brode periods the Pre-Islamic period, the Islamic period, and the Afgani Civil War. all three periods contain coups, revolutions, and invasions, frankly the only major diffrence betwen the three periods is the religion of the invader. the pre- islamic period was dominated by the conflicts be tween the Achaemenid Emipre and the greek city states, these conflicts ended when alexander the great of masadon defeted the persins and took control of the emipre. after alexanders death his kingdom was divided between his genarals with Seleucus I forming the The Seleucid Empire which incompased much of what is today the middle east; including afganistan Following the death of the profit mohamad invaders from the middle east begain to spread out into the surpunding contries claiming the lands for ialsm. afganistan was on such contry. after many diynesties the emipre of the islamic conquest where replaced by the mongol horde. having crossed into the middle east the mongols concoed most of the middle east and placed the new seat of their emipre in kabul. they ruled for 500 years in the 1700s the afgans created their own state which lasted for 200 years until the brtish overthrew the afgani state in an attempt to instal a puppet regeam. the two anglo-afgani wars ended with little gained only destruction

after the overthrow of the british afgan return to a system of monarchy for nearly 50 years it was during this time from1933 to1978 that aganistan has its most stable period in it's history. in 1978 one of the kings cosinens lead a bloodless coup and took control of the nation. his government lasted 1 year until the communist groups who has helped in the coup overthrewhim before he was able to whipe them out. these events would lead to nearly 10 years of occupation by the soviet government following the tyaranical rule of the taliban from 1992 to 2002 afganistan is on the road to recovery, having written a constitution and elected a democratic government the afgani people have begun the long prosses of furming up their contry the war with the taliban still rages on with the us incresseing its number of troops. only time will tell if afganistan can truly be ever stable