# @shabnamnasimi on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DTqToZykiFs
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/49612645-shabnamnasimi-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/126bbd70d1.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-01-18T17:53:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Shabnam Nasimi (@ShabnamNasimi) — https://gondola.cc/ShabnamNasimi

## Caption

REEL HISTORY: Afghanistan is not the “graveyard of empires”.

The phrase goes mainstream in 2001 via Milton Bearden’s Foreign Affairs headline, catchy, but fake history. And as Christian Caryl warned in 2010: if you want a way forward, “fake history” isn’t it.

Because the land we now call Afghanistan has been governed, integrated, and culturally central for long stretches: Achaemenids → Seleucids → Parthians → Sasanians → Kushans → Samanids → Ghaznavids → Timurids.

So we need to stop using colonial terms to describe ourselves and our lands.

#history #afghanistan #empire #islamic #persian

## Stats

- **Views:** 18,275
- **Likes:** 6,751
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- **Comments:** 616

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shabnam Nasimi | @ShabnamNasimi | https://gondola.cc/ShabnamNasimi | Writer |

## Tags

history, empire, persian, afghanistan, islamic

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