The route they took was around the southern tip of Africa, and the first explorer to get there was Marco Polo.
<span>The islands that were not well defended and after
taking the islands, General MacArthur would use air power to cut supply lines and
starve enemy troops, and thus it being called Island hopping.
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Conquest by Tamerlane (Timur) and Mughal Empire. From 1383 to 1385, the Afghanistan area was conquered from the north by Timur, leader of neighboring Transoxiana (roughly modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and adjacent areas), and became a part of the Timurid Empire.
