Kushan dynasty, Kushan also spelled Kusana, ruling
line descended from the Yuezhi, a people that ruled
over most of the northern Indian subcontinent,
Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia during the first
three centuries of the Common Era. The Yuezhi
conquered Bactria in the 2nd century BCE and
divided the country into five chiefdoms, one of which
was that of the Kushans (Guishuang). A hundred
years later the Kushan chief Kujula Kadphises (Qiu
Jiuque) secured the political unification of the Yuezhi
kingdom under himself.
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