In the first millennium BC era, the Yuezhi were an ancient people who were first mentioned in Chinese history as nomadic pastoralists who lived in a dry grassland region in the western section of the present Chinese province of Gansu. The Greater Yuezhi and Lesser Yuezhi separated into two factions and migrated in various directions after suffering a significant defeat at the hands of the Xiongnu in 176 BC. This would set off a complicated chain reaction that would spread out in all directions, changing the course of history for a large portion of Asia for years to come. As a result, the Tókharioi and Asii, as well as other groups recorded in ancient European sources as having occupied the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, are frequently associated with the Greater Yuezhi. One of the five main Greater Yuezhi tribes in Bactria, the Kushanas, started absorbing the other tribes and surrounding peoples in the first century BCE. At its height in the third century AD, the following Kushan Empire encompassed Gangetic plain of India, from Pataliputra in the south to Turfan in the north. The Kushanas were crucial in the growth of trade along the Silk Road and the spread of Buddhism in China.
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