World History › Section H · Empires of faith › Topic H.4
The margins of empire
Between and beyond the great empires lay kingdoms and peoples that carried their trade, fought their wars and sometimes challenged them. This topic visits three: the Kushan Empire of Central and South Asia, the caravan city of Palmyra, and the Arab peoples of late antique Arabia.
In this topic
- Between the giants
- From the Yuezhi to the Kushans
- Kanishka and a crossroads culture
- Worked example: reading Kanishka's coins
- Buddhism on the move
- Palmyra, city of caravans
- Odaenathus and Zenobia
- Worked example: Zenobia's coins
- Arabia's peoples and faiths
- Client kings: Lakhmids and Ghassanids
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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