Alexander the Great in the Quran River in the Punjab in 326 BC, his army nearly mutinied and refused to march further east, exhausted by years of campaigning. Alexander's desire to reach "the ends of the Earth" was instilled by his tutor Aristotle: Alexander derived his concept of `Asia' from the teaching of Aristotle, for whom `the inhabited earth' was surrounded by `the Great sea' Ocean, and was divided into three areas – `Europe, Libya and Asia.' Thus the earth was not round but flat, and `Asia' was limited on the west by the Tanais (Don), the inland sea and the Nile, and on the east
Maryland Route 384 rail and bus service for the surrounding area. MD 384 and its railroad underpass were constructed in the late 1920s. The highway was expanded to a divided highway in the mid-1970s. MD 384 begins at MD 390 (16th Street) at the Blair Portal traffic circle immediately to the north of the boundary between Maryland and the District of Columbia. Traffic on southbound MD 390 must pass around the circle, which also includes Eastern Avenue and North Portal Drive, to access MD 384. MD 384 heads northeast as a six-lane divided highway between high-rise apartment complexes. The highway intersects MD 410