The Kushan Empire expanded out of what is now Afghanistan into the northwest of the subcontinent under the leadership of their first emperor, Kujula Kadphises, about the middle of the 1st century CE. They came of an Indo-European language speaking Central Asian tribe called the Yuezhi, a branch of which was known as the Kushans. By the time of his grandson, Kanishka, they had conquered most of northern India, at least as far as Saketa and Pataliputra, in the middle Ganges Valley, and probably as far as the Bay of Bengal. COUNT 5
QSN1 From what area did the Kushan Empire come? ANS1 Afghanistan QSN2 Who was the first ruler of the Kushan empire? ANS2 Kujula Kadphises QSN3 In the middle o what century did the Kushan empire begin? ANS3 1st century CE QSN4 What was the language base of the Kushans? ANS4 Indo-European QSN5 What had the Kushans conquered much of by the time of Kanishka ANS5 northern India