During Antiquity, Alexander the Great sweeped across the Persian Empire, reaching all the way to the Indus. In the following centuries, the region became hellenized in ways similar to Egypt, until the Arab conquests brought Islam to the region and reshaped the cultural landscape.
Is it possible that, centuries later, about the 1700's or so, for the region to experience a neo-hellenistic or Neo-Bactrian revival akin to the European Rennaisance? Perhaps coinciding with a new Islamic Golden Age? If so, what would be the needed conditions for such an event to happen?
Is it possible that, centuries later, about the 1700's or so, for the region to experience a neo-hellenistic or Neo-Bactrian revival akin to the European Rennaisance? Perhaps coinciding with a new Islamic Golden Age? If so, what would be the needed conditions for such an event to happen?