You might be thinking, "Oh, they were there because of Alexander the Great."
WRONG!
They were already there when Alexander arrived. The Persians had a policy of relocating troublesome populations, so they put rebellious Ionian Greeks in Bactria.
Good reminder Detroit was possibly the richest city in both America and in the world in ~1950. As you see, they didn't "accelerate" and discover Based Hitler or Bukele, they just became a dead deindustrialized wasteland with a racial spoils system feeding on the ruins.
@MorlockP Cool thing is we are only one generation they’re removed from the farmers in the 1900s and they certainly did get sunburnt. My grandpa got sunburnt so bad on his ears and neck that you could see the scars from the burning when he was 90.