Sogdia lay northwest of Kangju.
 Sogdia, at the center of a new Silk Road between China to the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire became extremely prosperous under its nomadic elites
== History ===== Prehistory ===Sogdiana possessed a Bronze Age urban culture: original Bronze Age towns appear in the archaeological record beginning with the settlement at Sarazm, Tajikistan, spanning as far back as the 4th millennium BC, and then at Kk Tepe, near modern-day Bulungur, Uzbekistan, from at least the 15th century BC

