(May 5, 2020 at 11:20 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The mountains didn't isolate them from Alexander the Great's boys.
No, it didn't. There are ways in and out, it's just that they're bottlenecks. To the west you have arid, mountainous regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. To the east the jungles of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula. Neither are easy migration routes and anybody trying them finds that the people who migrated there first have set up a thriving civilization in the fertile lands of India and are more than capable of repelling invaders.