Oliver,
Wouldn't you agree that the distinction between what we know as "present-day Afghanistan" and "present -day Central Asia" is rather artificial? Even now, Tajiks, Turkmen and Uzbeks ( classical Central Asian people) constitute large portion of Afghani population.
At the beginning of the second millennium, Persian culture was the dominant and unifying force in that area. Then the Mongols came.....
Here, BTW, is an old Persian miniature, showing a warrior, decapitating his enemy with a very, very similar knife.
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