Ingrediants to making

Start with a farming community which is based in a mountainous, landlocked country. Give the land some gold, copper, silver, zinc, and Uranium. Next add some invasion by conquerers such as Alexander the Great, the Seleucids, the Indo-Greeks, Turks, and Mongols. See to it that the land is devastated by Genghis Kahn. After that sprinkle in some bombings from western powers such as the Soviet Union and the United States. Make sure that you do that this occures exactly 1950 years after BC.