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In the succeeding centuries Byzantium, like the cities of the Aegean, fell under the sway of Athens, Sparta, Persia, Alexander, and Rome.
In return, the British learned the delights of polo (imported with the Mughals from Persia and Afghanistan) and a kind of game-hunting that made grouse-shooting seem tame.
Sweeping through the Punjab and Gujarat across to the western end of the Ganga valley, Mahmud of Ghazni (997–1030) used these raids more to finance his empire in Persia and Turkistan than to set up a permanent foothold in India.
The Parsis, as their name suggests, originate from ancient Persia and today form only a minute community in the world of religions, with barely 100,000 living in India, mostly in and around the city of Mumbai.
His heir, Humayun, preferred opium and astrology to complex State affairs; he was driven out of India into Persia by General Sher Shah, who proved to be a much more able ruler.