Some 2,300 years ago, a fellow by the name of Alexander conquered the World. Or at least just about all the World he and his fellow Greeks had ever heard of. He was planning to conquer northern Europe, too, but died young before he could get to it. He passed away under rather suspicious circumstances incidetally, perhaps poisoned by former friends disgusted with the alcoholism and meniacal ego.
At any rate, Egypt fell to the overachivever from Macedonia, then Persia. India was next on his list. Alexander fans will tell you he conquered India, too, but that's a slight exaggeration. In 327 B.C.E., he made a few incursions into what we'd call Pakistan, but the Greco-Indian kingdom he left behind, called Bactria was really in Afghanistan than India.
As far as Alexander knew, India was the final frontier the end of the World. To his shock, India turned out to be a heck of a lot bigger than he had figured. He also learned once he got there was yet another country further east called China. This excited Alexander: Still more worlds to conquer!But his soldiers were fed up and wanted to go home.
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