Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: The term Dard is due to Herodotus who described a land of the Dardikae in the areas forming what is now called northeastern Afghanistan and which was in classical times considered a part of Bactria .
Simplified: The term Dard is due to Herodotus who described a land of the Dardikae in the area of northeastern Afghanistan .