Premise: Afghanistan . The land also served as the source from which the Kushans , Hephthalites , Samanids , Saffarids , Ghaznavids , Ghorids , Khiljis , Mughals , Hotaks , Durranis , and others have risen to form major empires . Hephthalites ( or Ephthalites ) was the Latinised exonym for a people commonly known in Chinese sources by names such as Yada ( 嚈噠 , Yè dā ) . At the height of its power in the first half of the 6th century , the Hephthalite Empire controlled territory in present-day Afghanistan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Tajikistan , Kyrgyzstan , Kazakhstan , Pakistan , India and China .
Hypothesis: Afghanistan is the source of the Hephthalite Empire.
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