Many powerful kingdoms have established their capitals inside the modern state of Afghanistan, including the Greco-Bactrians, Mauryas, Kushans, Kabul Shahi, Saffarids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Timurids, Mughals, Hotakis, Durranis and others.

However, powerful intermediate empires such as the Parthians and Kushans kept the two Eurasian flanking powers permanently apart and mutual awareness remained low and knowledge fuzzy.

With the help of these frontier martial tribes from Central Asia, Chandragupta was able to defeat the Greek successors of Alexander the Great and the Nanda / Nandin rulers of Magadha so as to found the powerful Maurya empire in northern India, at least for a short time till the Kushans and other ruler conquered north-west India.

In conclusion and as expanded upon in an epilogue, Tolkien asserts that a truly good and representative fairy story is marked by joy: " Far more powerful and poignant is the effect joy in a serious tale of Faerie.

As long as slavery expanded, it remained profitable and powerful and was unlikely to disappear.

Under Perón, the number of unionized workers expanded as he helped to establish the powerful General Confederation of Labor.

The town was subsequently expanded into a powerful regional centre.

Louis XIV had emerged from the Franco-Dutch War in 1678 as the most powerful monarch in Europe ; but, although he had expanded his realm, the ' Sun King ' remained unsatisfied.

As Oklahoma grew and the state government expanded, the Governor became gradually more powerful.

Although gubernatorial powers were again significantly expanded by constitutional amendments during the 1970s, Indiana governors remain significantly less powerful than their counterparts in most other states.

Following the Dvaravati period, the powerful Khmer Empire expanded its influence throughout what is now the southern Isan region of Thailand.

Afonso's son, John II, turned his back on Castile and saw an opportunity on the ocean discoveries and expanded them, making Portugal the first intercontinental empire and becoming the most powerful King in medieval History.

Set around 155 F. E., The Merchant Princes takes places against the backdrop of a powerful Foundation, which has subjugated the neighboring Four Kingdoms and expanded its commercial and technological empire throughout numerous stellar systems.

Stone was the capital of early Mercia, a powerful Anglian kingdom that later expanded over most of what is now the West Midlands.

Subsequent conquests expanded into the Mediterranean, reaching Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Naples and Greece, so by 1350 the Crown of Aragon " presided over the one of the most extensive and powerful mercantile empires of the Mediterranean during this period " ( Woolard 16 ).

After this period, and with the rise of the Portuguese state after the beginning of the Age of Discovery, Portuguese architecture expanded under the patronage of the wealthy kings, nobility, powerful clergy and through the many battles with rivals such as Castile, the French and Dutch.

From 1998 on, Struth expanded the series with images shot on sites of powerful secular significance ( including

More powerful computers, improved software, and viewing technologies have expanded possibilities for artists and printmakers.

Later, during the Emperor Joker storyline, this is expanded upon: the Joker, possessing the same powers, is able to unweave the very fabric and laws of the cosmos, and render the less powerful than normal Hal Jordan Spectre into a deranged puppet, Mxyzptlk explaining that he has the power to do what the Joker is doing to the world but never uses it because he would run the risk of destroying reality from the strain he would be subjecting it to and thus leave himself with nothing to do the next day.

While he maintained a large and powerful army, to keep the peace and maintain authority, Ashoka expanded friendly relations with states across Asia and Europe, and he sponsored Buddhist missions.

Like in many other regions across Africa, powerful indigenous kingdoms along the Bight of Benin relied heavily on a long established slave trade, which expanded greatly after the arrival of European powers and turned into a global trade with the colonization of the Americas.

In 1999, Audi expanded the range with the introduction of more powerful versions: a 1. 8 Turbo rated, and a 1. 9 TDI diesel engine with Unit Injector " Pumpe Düse " ( PD ) technology and variable geometry turbocharger.

During primary extraction, the initial very small rearward movement of the hot expanded cartridge case away from the chamber's walls must be powerful but very slow, if an automatic weapon is to be reliable.

It was said that when he was minister of civil service affairs, he, hoping to become chancellor again, expanded the roll of reserve officials and made many relatives and friends of powerful individuals reserve officials, in order to placate them.

The widespread use of iron revolutionised the Bantu farming communities who drove out the remaining hunter-gatherer societies they encountered as they expanded to farm wider areas of savanna The technologically superior Bantu spread across southern Africa and became rich and powerful, producing iron for tools and weapons in large, industrial quantities.

Philip's much expanded kingdom, powerful army and plentiful resources now made him the de facto " leader of Greece ".

* The most powerful of these states was the Songhai Empire, which expanded rapidly beginning with king Sonni Ali in the 1460s.

He slapped the reins on the back of the powerful gray horse and held on as the sulky's wheels hit a pothole and came out with a jolt and went on.

And with what resource did Prokofieff back up his Credo of words -- with torrents of powerful music.

And to see the meaning of this new picture, imagine that you can put on more powerful glasses and go back inside the atom and have a look at it in the way we view it today.

The legs were far back on the bird's body, which gave it powerful swimming and diving abilities.

The carnassials, especially the upper, are very powerful and are shifted far back to the point of exertion of peak pressure on the jaws.

Nehru had a powerful ally in the US president Dwight Eisenhower who, if relatively silent publicly, went to the extent of using America ’ s clout in the IMF to make Britain and France back down.

The event leaves her comatose, and she is brought back to consciousness when her parents seek the help of powerful mutant telepath, Charles Xavier.

The front teeth are inclined slightly forward and outward, thus allowing the killer whale to withstand powerful jerking movements from its prey while the middle and back teeth hold it firmly in place.

The Ottomans assigned the task of bringing Mecca back under Ottoman control to their powerful Khedive ( viceroy ) of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha.

The P51 Mustang was the subject of a 30 minute episode entitled " The Cadillac of the Skies " in reference to its exceptional performance and how it started off as a British purchase as a low level attack fighter into the powerful long range bomber escort that it would eventually become in the Air War in Europe through a combination of being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the fitting drop tanks that allowed to escort the bombers of the United States 8th Air Force all the way into occupied Europe and back.

Once again, the Vikings had a powerful offense led by 37-year old quarterback Fran Tarkenton and running back Chuck Foreman.

It tried to fight back with submarines, despite the risk of war by the powerful neutral power the United States.

Wombats may allow an intruder to force its head over their back and then use their powerful legs to crush the skull of the predator against the roof of the tunnel, or drive it off with two-legged ' donkey ' kicks.

Yet almost immediately upon their exile, Lehi is commanded by God to send his sons back to Jerusalem to retrieve the brass plates, a record similar to the Old Testament which was owned by Laban, a powerful leader in Jerusalem.

The duke was a credible claimant to the English throne and by the end of his regency there were many powerful nobles and relatives prepared to back his claim.

In the original sense, a bitch slap is a powerful, full-swing slap in the face with the front of the hand, evoking the way an angry pimp might slap a defiant prostitute ( not to be confused with a pimp slap which uses the back of the hand ).

" Longstreet helped save the Confederate Army from defeat in his first battle back with Lee's army, the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864, where he launched a powerful flanking attack along the Orange Plank Road against the Union II Corps and nearly drove it from the field.

Tomino then changed it to the current title, suggesting that Gundam signified a powerful unit wielding a gun powerful enough to hold back enemies, like a hydroelectric dam holding back floods.

Gandalf was sent back as a significantly more powerful figure ; Gandalf the White.

In the early days of World War II, Bulgaria was neutral, but powerful groups in the country swayed its politics toward Germany ( whom they had also allied with in World War I ), which had gained initial sympathies by forcing Romania to cede southern Dobrudja back to Bulgaria.

While the ethnic based army was generally successful on the battlefields, they began to have negative effects on the Fatimid's internal politics, traditionally the Berber element of the army had the strongest sway over political affairs, but as the Turkish element grew more powerful they began to challenge this, and eventually by 1020 serious riots began to break out among the Black African troops who were fighting back against a Berber / Turks Alliance.

By this time, Anakin has grown powerful but arrogant, and believes that Obi-Wan is holding him back.