When Lao Shang (reigned c. 174–161 BCE), ruler of the Xiongnu (a powerful people of North China), defeated them and killed their king, the main body of the Yuezhi moved westward into Sogdiana and Bactria, putting an end to Greek rule in both regions.
Alexander first sent Craterus to Cyropolis, the largest of the towns holding Sogdiana against Alexander's forces.
Shaivism was popular in Sogdiana and Eastern Turkestan as found from the wall painting from Penjikent on the river Zervashan.
Spitamenes (in old Persian Spitamaneh; Greek Σπιταμένης; born 370 BC and killed 328 BC) Sogdian warlord, leader of the uprising in Sogdiana and Bactria against Alexander of Macedon 329 BC.
Later, Uokils united with a Nan Shan branch of the Yuezhi in their movement, initially to the Aral area, and then on to Bactria and Sogdiana.