From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10440 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, January 2 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10440 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Congratulations! You can get a $50 Nordstrom gift card! ["Nordstrom Opini] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 11:17:18 +0100 From: "Nordstrom Opinion Requested" Subject: Congratulations! You can get a $50 Nordstrom gift card! Congratulations! You can get a $50 Nordstrom gift card! http://selfsufficientbackyard.rest/ln-Km8jmwpAaphI08BgJJisj0olEtcmV1p-Imea64hQqLIwRVA http://selfsufficientbackyard.rest/tP3K5vdalltIQhRmKuIKXo0Bhr_cx3PkqQzFnrkhDSPpKFaVKA he precise date of Ai-Khanoum's founding is unknown. The northernmost outpost of the Indus Valley Civilization had been established at Shortugai, around 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Ai-Khanoum, during the late third millennium BC. Shortugai, which existed for several centuries, traded with its southern neighbours and constructed the first irrigation systems in the area. A thousand years later, the area fell under the control of the Persian Achaemenids, who established a satrapy (administrative province) centred on Bactra (present-day Balkh), and expanded eastwards by conquering the Indus Valley. To assert control over the local region, they founded a fort named Kohna Qala on a ford of the Oxus, around 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north of the later city. Although scholars have speculated that a small Achaemenid garrison may have been placed at the confluence, there is no consensus that a settlement was established at Ai-Khanoum prior to the arrival of the Greco-Macedonians under Alexander the Great c.?328 BC. Historians have disputed who ordered the transformation of this small settlement into the major city it became. Initially, Ai-Khanoum was identified as Alexandria Oxiana, one of the cities founded by Alexander. There are considerable difficulties with identifying these cities, as the sources di ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10440 ***********************************************