Earliest Western Account of India + Caste System // 300 BC Megasthenes // Ancient Primary Source

[@95keat]

Out of all the topics he speaks about the greek is most offended by the fact that they don't have a proper lunch time

[@gjcb8248]

Ikr who does it nowdays? I felt attacked lol I eat when I feel

[@Maravone]

very mediterranean i should say

[@hermes77722]

needs his Ceasar salad at noon!...

[@proseminded]

the whole "eating relatives" thing isn't so bothersome in comparison lol

[@anshupandit4490]

@imp he said that about the tribes in caucases mountains.

[@Matthew_26]

The interactions between the Greeks and India are always very interesting

[@Testacabeza]

@Barnacle Boy Skimo were not a thing back then.

[@varungambhir3403]

Fahim Hussain they described northern Indians (Modern Northern Indians and Pakistanis) as tall and brown as Egyptians while South Indians dark and resembling Ethiopians

[@Paws.of.Justice]

@@varungambhir3403 yes still can see those features in early indian people photos in 1920s People are shorter and weird looking according indian looks

[@indrason6974]

@@varungambhir3403 he did not say they looked like ethiopians he said they had north Indian looks and Ethiopian skin colour which is true

[@updown9697]

@sangers balakrishna he just said the greeks described north Indians look are the same with the eygptains while the greek describing south Indians look are the same with ethiopians

[@sooraj1104]

"Men inhale the pure air and drink the very finest water" ...Ahh what an irony with now...

[@rishab5293]

Haha I know! What a tragedy!

[@Dichtsau]

are you aware that he was talking about _purified_ air, inhaled through a shisha?

[@Avicena-tf5uj]

Dichtsau lol

[@Dichtsau]

@@Avicena-tf5uj yea, the plain truth tends to be funny, at least sometimes :D

[@shanecarubbi7864]

@@Dichtsau purified ganja air inhaled through a chellam. 😁

[@malukingulo2308]

So unicorns are basically rhinos.

[@jokuvaan5175]

And/or narwhals

[@Chris_seh]

iirc Marco Polo said something like "I saw unicorns in my travels! Fatter then i expected tho"

[@karhu96]

@@Chris_seh In Book 3 Chapter 9 of "The travels of Marco Polo" he states: "There are wild elephants in the country, and numerous unicorns, which are very nearly as big. They have hair like that of a buffalo, feet like those of an elephant, and a horn in the middle of the forehead, which is black and very thick. They do no mischief, however, with the horn, but with the tongue alone; for this is covered all over with long and strong prickles [and when savage with any one they crush him under their knees and then rasp him with their tongue]. The head resembles that of a wild boar, and they carry it ever bent towards the ground. They delight much to abide in mire and mud. 'Tis a passing ugly beast to look upon, and is not in the least like that which our stories tell of as being caught in the lap of a virgin; in fact, 'tis altogether different from what we fancied."

[@navinkumarpk86]

@@karhu96 Haha a nice fat chubby rhino.

[@nickcpv]

Yes. Check the Bible In Latin, it refers to the animal as "rhinocerotis". "In Numbers 23:22 and 24:8, the Bible speaks of the strength of a unicorn. Deuteronomy 33:17, Psalms 22: 21 and Psalms 92:10 speak of the unicorn's horn. ... In Psalms 29:6, the unicorn is likened to a young calf skipping, while Isiah 34:7 mentions unicorns in the same context as bulls and bullocks."

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Ancient descriptions like this are always fun to listen to. It feels as if you're time traveling

[@heathenfire]

In a way you are

[@grantquinones]

Well dey wuz all wraysists

[@chelebelle2223]

I know! Fascinating!

[@michaelweston409]

Facts

[@atsukunisumeragi1967]

Says he who lived at that time.

[@iapetusmccool]

* Megasthenes, 300BC: "as you go further south, the stars change". * some Flat Earther on KZbin yesterday: "iF tHe EaRtH iS rOuNd, WhY aRe ThE sTaRs ThE sAmE eVeRyWhErE?"

[@NaYangKo1M]

I think Megasthenes meant to say that The position of the stars changed. Not the size..

[@francis6489]

@@NaYangKo1M That's exactly what Iapetus meant. Learning comprehension 101.

[@coe3408]

@@NaYangKo1M We see different stars and constellations here in the Southern Hemisphere, thats what he meant.

[@bigchilzy]

@Saurabh Adhikari what indians believed : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle -

[@rikingautam]

@@bigchilzy ignorance leads to stupidity. Please read the stuff before sharing, don't relate mythology to science. Read this www.britannica.com/biography/Aryabhata-I Not just the fact that the earth is sphere, but this guy also figured out that the earth is rotating on its axis.

[@Joe-po9xn]

Just imagine being some Greek or Persian guy, and coming across this. Plants, animals, cultures and gods you've never seen or heard of. An alien language. An incomprehensible way of life. It would be like stepping onto another planet. We take so much of this for granted, really.

[@karanvarma4843]

Persians were at that time a cousin culture opposite in terms of Ideas. The asuras were their gods the devas are our gods...

[@neildixit1256]

Avestan Persians, not so much. Achamedian Persians and Greeks, yes.

[@leifleoden5464]

You should go to India today. All the plants, animals, cultures and Gods are still there. Yes, they have all the modern stuff too, but in so many ways it's still the same India.

[@0hn0haha]

We've all gotten way too similar thanks to globalism

[@leifleoden5464]

@@0hn0haha Sad but true, I've been to 30 countries and they are all too similar. This is the primary reason why I hate globalism.

[@kshatrapavan]

My theory is that "the dog-headed men" was like a proto-meme. An inside joke among the Greeks. They just had to insert that in every single geographical documentation.

[@Latro84]

@chcpr1 why not , they believed in Zeus and co so why should they not believe in other magical things

[@Latro84]

@chcpr1 No , we are far far smarter today .. we live in the age of information , that's how we know that Zeus wont come down at night and kidnap our wife's ,

[@raghuvinay4359]

@@Latro84 zeus thunder god is same as god indra in hinduism and is leader of demi gods/lower strata gods. he dint steal wife, he wantedly comes to impregnate women who have more spiritual energy for a purpose.generally who have more spiritual energy is princess/queen or women priests so that they can bear his seed in their wombs. low spiritual women cant bear and die. such children is necessary to be born for certain things. hinduism religion is full of such people who are born like that where they became warriors or written holy books. some times becaz of lust also indra did that but later got cursed for such actions. not just zeus, wind god, sun god and sometimes children born to celestial apsaras and kings n later they became emperors. in all the cases where human race women involved that god who impreganted gave boon of not loosing virginity even if married. reminding u of jesus birth, and hindus never even argued about jesus birth becaz we knew thats how gods do it. watever age we live in or how much intelligent we are still they prefer who has more spiritual aura. from such great lineage u can have more spiritual aura by birth or u can increase aura by tapas,japa for certain years. spiritual power which u have accumalated by this method gets diminish by using it how and how much. hope i gave little info. non indians or even many indians dont know much about this subject so dont worry.

[@aokiaoki4238]

Ctesias wote that, in India, there is a nation of people that Indians called them "Kalistrius" «Καλύστριους» witch means Dogheaded («κυνοκέφαλοι»). It's a translation. In the Mediaval years became popular by Pseudocallisthenes nobels about the adventures of Great Alexander in Asia fighting the Dogheaded people. Later it was used it as term describing tribes that practice cannibalism or disform their faces.

[@nmo3148]

Now that is interesting! Could they be referring to the Kshatriyas or the warrior caste that got mixed up with a sort of a Greek homonym?

[@avinfor]

“Well skilled in the arts as expected from men than inhale pure air and drink the finest water” Now I know why I can’t paint or play music: too much tap water and city air.

[@avinfor]

PIYUSH Jaiswal The sentence indicates a direct relation between being skilled on arts and having pure air and drinking fine water, hence the joke. Don’t be an ass.

[@feymusings294]

@PIYUSH Jaiswal Ajanubahu right ?

[@nr7000000001]

@Tejas Misra Yes the stories of tall men are found all over the world, also skeletons have been found all over the world, search for 'paracas' for example

[@kmvoss]

Greco-Indo relations have always inspired my imagination & curiosity. Love it.

[@heathenfire]

Fusion of Indian and Greek philosophy?

[@nichoudha]

@Fiamo Scarlette The Greco-Buddhist polities that existed for 250 years prior to Islam's mass genocide of India.

[@beninwarrior4579]

@@nichoudha mass genocide?

[@rishabhuniyal2284]

@@beninwarrior4579 yes! during the mughal reign

[@robertmitchell8630]

Here is osho describing an exchange of life philosophy between Alexander and the Indian guru kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4PSkH9nh856jdk

[@akbrahma7739]

Well atleast both the Greeks and Chinese accounts don't refer to us as 'barbarians' that's an achievement, when compared to how they described the Celts, Germanics or Turks.

[@LKG644]

@Queen Visenya what he said

[@mxxmauuhan3597]

Greeks used to call Romans Barbarians too.

[@CartoonsinHindi]

Coz hindus are peacefull

[@abhishekrai1060]

Indians Chinese Persians Greeks never fought for religion and in reality both Indian and Greeks religion were from same source, and from India this Vedic Hindu dharma spread in all of Asia.

[@MrTheBrownDon]

Does anyone know the source of Greeks considering Celts and Germanic barbaric?

[@mazumdar1000]

Everything in his description was fine until Megasthenes discovered Ganja in India. 😂

[@PikaachuuGaming]

😂😂😂

[@thethreespikes9737]

😁😁😂😂😂😂

[@AST4EVER]

😂😂😂😂

[@allahlesboslu2_9]

Lol 😂😂😂😂

[@dnhdfnfkrjxjxfjjggj3002]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@djpraxpk8427]

As an Indian I find it fascinating that there were 7 castes and none of them were two of the supposed 4 castes in Hinduism (Vaishyas/traders and Shudras/lower castes). It tells you how much we have been brain washed and are unaware of our own history.

[@beowulf555]

Honestly, the 4 you are talking about is Varna. Not caste. Varna is classification of people based on their duty in the society. There is no such thing as 7 castes. This is just nonsense in the video. There are 1000s of castes all over India. Caste although a foreign word is used to describe Kula. It’s just a group of people in the same occupation coming together to give themselves a name. For example, the naayi kula comes from a group of Barbers. The carpenters will have their own caste and so will the traders and so on. This is more of a security net Or kind of a club of people with similarities in their occupation and life style. There could be several castes again of the same carpenter or Barbers if you go to a different state or “rajya”. The old education system which mostly starts and probably even ends within the family based on your work means, people learn the traits of their own trade through immediate family and the extended family called caste. That’s why it made more sense for people to marry within their own caste and inter caste marriage was looked down upon as not fruitful for future generation or for continuation of their tradition. It doesn’t make much sense today for people working in industries or as IT slaves anyway. Also, people took pride in their caste. There was no higher or lower. It’s just different clubs if I could say. That’s why even today, a so called Baniya wouldn’t like his/her kid to be married to a Brahmin although Brahmins are supposed to belong higher castes. The classification on higher and lower scales and caste strongly tied to birth cane from the Bristish administration. It was for ease of their administration as their administration itself was dependent on segregating people so they would not form unions to fight against them. The Varna system as described in vedas is Geeta has nothing to do with caste system or it’s so called evils. The evangelical organizations under the British government took anecdotal occurrences of a so calle higher caste (Thakor or Reddy and so on who are also lower castes comparatively) flexing their muscles on lower caste people to spread a propaganda that caste is Evil and that’s why people need to leave Hinduism and accept Xtianity. For slavery, loot, murders and rape are still lesser crimes than saying “I do not want to touch you”. Most of the so called caste atrocities are just classical cases of the rich and powerful guy taking advantage of the weaker guy. If there was so much horror built within the caste system, it wouldn’t have survived 1000s of years and we do not see a single record of people revolting about it. The only revolts are those that happen today where people destroy public property to be identified as lower castes for government freebies in the name of a failed idea called reservation.

[@beowulf555]

vincent raj The stupidly of an evangelically brainwashed logic can be reiterated with this comment where a random statement derived of any logic is presented as fact. I’ve already explained the difference between Varna and castes and why there are differences in caste. Land was always under rulers. What does that have to do with caste differences. India, a land of temples, now has more land with the Churches rather than temples. Why? Yes, even Brahmins have castes based on the sciences they learn and practice. So? Please don’t bring ur religious triggered nonsense to reply me. If u do not want to learn about your own country and civilization and it’s history, it’s your loss. I don’t have time to wake up people from their religious slumber.

[@vijaysivasankaran621]

This is a rookie understanding of India and most probably a western intellectual imposition/lens of India on the varna system. You are still being brainwashed by this video

[@happywin4044]

Castes is different subject from Varnas which are four. Multiple castes could be associated with one varna

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

@Shreyas Misra Dude, Santa Claus wasn't invented by Coca Cola, he's literally just Saint Nicholas/Nikolaos and he gave money to poor children in the catholic belief (Orthodox he is the patron saint of sailors). Coca Cola rebranded him in their image to sell coke, prior to that he was depicted as wearing green or white. All Cocacola did was change his colour, he was a part of western tradition for hundreds of years. I keep hearing a lot of nationalistic Indians here talking about westerners not knowing about their culture, don't talk crap about mine if you don't fucking know what you're talking about okay?

[@varungambhir3403]

Can you do a video on Xuanzang’s visit to India. He was a Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar who I believe lived in India for 20 or so years

[@VoicesofthePast]

Aye, shall do. For the moment I have a video on Fa Xian, who was a couple of hundred years earlier.

[@varungambhir3403]

Voices of the Past awesome! Thanks for replying mate!

[@paris2993]

Voices of the Past --- hmmmm that will b gud.

[@InjusticeinIndia]

It is said that he took many lakhs of scriptures from India into China 🇨🇳

[@dnstone1127]

India is very fertile which is why it has such a large population pre industrialisation.

[@brucewayne1636]

true

[@samuelavraham4909]

And now that we know the consequences of industrialisation... I'm starting to believe that they might have been a lot wiser back then.

[@jwawrzon]

The Toba super-volcano eruption was a major contributor to fertility of the soil in India.

[@snowfrosty1]

Samuel Avraham I mean, Mughal India was essentially proto-industrialized by the time mighty ‘Western’ powers(especially the British empire) made large scale and multilevel contact.

[@xchi7351]

Also kind religion , kind weather and ever flowing rivers

[@LCTesla]

this version of the caste system seems much less monolithic and hierarchical than the more commonly told modern version. I had to go back and check whether the 1st caste was the top one or the 7th caste. seems like the interpretation of it got corrupted somewhere along the way. a lesson for the ages.

[@indrason6974]

India had different caste system depending on the region and time period the mordern version was institutionalized by the British back when they were trying to centralise the country as different regions had different caste system and no ethnicity was in the same caste in two regions

[@preetikushwa7032]

The earliest of the texts on caste were very flexible .. the present day caste system is the gift of the British.

[@laurisafine7932]

@@preetikushwa7032 Wasn't Indian Independence in the late 1940's, so after about 70 years, what's the issue now?

[@preetikushwa7032]

@@laurisafine7932 The system British left wasn't abandoned after India achieved independence.

[@sooknandannishan]

That’s the British that distorted everything and tried to belittle Indian civilisation!

[@shenanigans3710]

"India neither received a colony..." Well, that changed.

[@CuFhoirthe88]

We know that it was untrue even back then.

[@Foogi9000]

Alexander: Hippity Hoppity you're now my pro- *dies*

[@updown9697]

@@Foogi9000 Alexander the great never conquer india he just conquer the bacteria(afghanistan) and the kingdom of taxila(pakistan) that's it anyway Alexander the great stopped conquering india when he faced porus

[@aashishpandey7796]

@@Foogi9000 Alexander lost in india and died on his way back to babylt

[@chanakyadevil]

@@updown9697 He defeated Porus. He didn't face the much larger and better prepared nanda kingdom( in central india) He did lose the first battle as Porus used War Elephants which alexander's army hadn't seen before but after planning and devising a new strategy alexander defeated porus in india, this is where the army started revolting as they had seen that indians are capable of war and further conquest of india would be disastrous for them , so they made the journey back to greece

[@diwakarjha8901]

Two of the greatest civilizations in history of mankind encountering each other certainly seems legendary

[@pranjaldev9559]

Chinese civilisation too was as great as the aforementioned two.

[@samank8628]

If anything the Greeks learnt from the Persians.

[@allahlesboslu2_9]

@@pranjaldev9559 lol 🤣🤣🤣 who denied but India was also a prosperous land

[@pranjaldev9559]

@@allahlesboslu2_9 Bro, I see you everywhere,😳most of the time on Wion's YT channel. How's this even possible? 😳😳

[@guapbueb5784]

@@samank8628 other way round

[@skipjackjohnson5528]

Every ones gangsta until the war elephants show up.

[@VoicesofthePast]

Civ VI FACT

[@Unknown-nc4jq]

@@VoicesofthePast and everyone is gangsta on elephants until Alexander the Great shows up

[@Paws.of.Justice]

@tyrion lannister Not Byzantine(roman) but Seleucid empire (persian-greek)

[@punalmanalan2346]

@@Paws.of.Justice still it does not change the fact that alexander got heavily injured in his battle and retreated from india totally stopping further conquests.

[@Blueblitzer9264]

@@punalmanalan2346 he did not retreat his army mutinied at the hyphases river because they hadn't seen their families in years and he was forced to depart back home by his own army

[@dhruvdatta1055]

In Bali, Indonesia they still follow the practice of not eating at fixed times

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Are you from bali

[@pritpalsingh3609]

no acidity issues?

[@Bingus453]

@@pritpalsingh3609 💀💀

[@shirokun4742]

​@@pritpalsingh3609 acidity is for weak body not hard working people

[@spergelord8401]

The backward feet thing, is still an urban legend in India and Pakistan, called the pichal peri.

[@alexv3357]

Similarly in parts of Central Asia the Djinn are said to have backwards-facing feet, this being one of the best ways to tell if a stranger met out on the Steppe is friendly or not

[@ricardogalvan1031]

Fascinating! Which means that individual was not just making up stories, but heard these fables from Indians.

[@nickcpv]

Same legend from from Brazilian natives in South America. It's called curupira. They tricked people trying to find them by looking at their footprints and going on the wrong direction. Coincidence?

[@spergelord8401]

@@nickcpv Its very similar. It says it was brought to brazil by Africans and europeans, so its not native. Also, pichal peri is exclusively female. The brazillian one seems to appear in both sexes.

[@samisiddiqi5411]

I thought it was called a "chor-ail?"

[@jackson15williams]

More dog headed men. Alright someone a long time ago pulled a prank and all of antiquity believed him

[@moonooze6171]

Ancient trolling

[@InDeepPudding]

Ancient furries

[@sumthin5]

ol school shitposting

[@airforce9872]

i feel like it was just a group of people who wore wolf skull headdresses to intimidate their enemies

[@nickcpv]

Coincidence?

[@walterl322]

Lol, I like Greek writings on other cultures more than Roman ones... Romans just couldn’t finish a sentence without calling other people savages, most Greeks believed in cultural relativism and I like that...

[@heyfitzpablum]

Greeks were attracted to wisdom for wisdom's sake, Romans not so much. There is a lot of knowledge that came out of India at that time, the Greeks wanted to learn from it.

[@houser2094]

That's why I love the Romans 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 confidence 🔥🔥🔥

[@walterl322]

@@houser2094 yeah, it is really funny though

[@hxrx9670]

Greco-Roman 🗿

[@timelord2024]

@@houser2094 which lead to their downfalls

[@Ash1123-q1f]

World - we are so smart in modern days.... Ancestors were so fools India - we are so fools in modern days...Ancestors were so smart

[@Noone-gz8li]

This one is true as fuck

[@yv3970]

makes me sad how our country has become so poor,but i still have hope that things will get better

[@OnlyOneHunnids]

Bruh its because of invasions and looting by the british. India is rapidly growing and entrepreneurship is rising. India is doing well today. Give the country some time and it will be back on its feet again.

[@modernthinker5310]

This is good statement .West things that advancement of civilization is linear but in the case of India.It is cyclic.

[@AmanKumar-gl9lx]

People like you are fool as Aap jaise log Aaj desh ko badnam Kar rahe ho

[@bigcat5348]

It's fascinating how ancient writers would write about distant lands as if they were near utopian.

[@indrason6974]

He lived there for 12 years as an ambassador so I would believe he knew way more than others

[@sumukhhegde7161]

Also fascinating how in modern times, distant lands are explained mainly as problematic.

[@Survivethejive]

people still do it. American left think sweden is a utopia

[@anhthiensaigon]

It's fascinating how out of ancient descriptions of distant lands, the beautiful ones are spread the widest on today media. FTFY

[@snowfrosty1]

Survive the Jive Very true Survive the Jive, lots of contemporary ‘Westerners’, especially among Western Euros and North Americans, tend to dabble too much into: - “Nordic model” socio-political+economic exaggeration - bantu afrophilia(very common among “White” left liberals and pro-“black” activists) - philo-semitism for Israel(especially common among Neo-Con Christians) and - neo-orientalist day dreaming particularly regarding the people’s republic of China and to a lesser extent Japan.

[@dheerajpimoli9539]

He also tells that philosipher comes from every caste

[@happywin4044]

People have confused Varna with Caste now dayz

[@satiready]

Its funny how they look at sanyasis as philosophers. Which is not quite a right translation i feel. Because Spiritual Gurus were masters of showing the reality to people rather than telling them morals and philosophy

[@sadenb]

its same today as well.all the great yogis come from anywhere

[@anshumanmahanty6044]

Ancient India sounds a very cool place. No stealing, fresh water, fresh air, no particular time to eat, can have multiple wives and can roam around on an elephant. A pretty awesome life if you ask me..

[@user-lw3mm7fw2y]

Only Kings used to have Multiple Wifes. But that was also a choice.

[@user-lw3mm7fw2y]

@Humbal Hiren My mother is Hindu, Father is Buddhist. So I'm both. But I don't know if having multiple wives allowed in Hindusim. But I don't think it is, still I many ppl used to do. But it was a British empire time anyway.

[@lautheimpaler4686]

Multiple husbands too.

[@3-Kashmir]

@@user-lw3mm7fw2y you & the people that understood what you said are gifted 🎁 💝

[@AaronBiswas]

Nah I prefer modern India more atleast we don't have to be a bitch of tyrannical king(unless there's a tyrannical PM lol) example Nehru.

[@jakesnake1481]

Looks like the various conquests of India have done more harm than good when comparing India now to then.

[@siddharthyadavchekkala2845]

@Pichkalu Pappita Turks and mughal colonisation was heavily resisited which is why their impact on local traditions was limited. But British colonisation was more damaging. The British single handedly destroyed the public education system in India. After they copied it and replicated it in Europe.

[@JAMRAJ2804]

Ohh yeah. Trade, finance, art, fighting skills, international relation, science, human consciousness, tools in every aspect way much more advanced and influenced the world. Even every aspect in today's world is somehow connected with India. Egypt is overhyped with short history compared to India.

[@ranmasaotome2876]

@@JAMRAJ2804 are u being sarcastic or honest?

[@muraligopal212]

jake snake ..

[@assamese.maharashtrian]

The Islamic and Christian invasions/colonisation did harm with religion playing a major role in the harm. The Scythians, Huns and Greeks... not much harm. They integrated culturally with the local Indians since there was no religious conflict between them.

[@tabletgamestabletgames221]

Ancient Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 Ancient China 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳 Ancient India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 Ancient Egypt 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬

[@indiafirst3676]

@༼ཆ༽ There was no Ancient Japan though. I mean even if there was it wasn't of likes of China, India, Persia or Greece.

[@jaymahakaal5354]

Only ancient India is alive.. w preserved our culture which is still going on🙏🫂🕉️🛐

[@user-vw6bk4pb4l]

Ancient Ethiopia 🇸🇩 🇸🇸 🇪🇹 🇾🇪

[@yorksfolly1255]

Ancient Palestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸🇵🇸 Now that’s one to rival them all seeing as the world over is affecting be prophets and religions connected to this region

[@mikeaaron8506]

what about sumeria,mesopotomia

[@rome316ae3]

Two of the greatest civilisation Ancient Greece X Ancient India ❤

[@heyfitzpablum]

Indeed. We owe much to both civilizations.

[@nobody5814]

Only if the barbaric abrahmic religions didnt exist the world would have been a better place.

[@faisalhussainmohammed2815]

Athenos Latinium can't be called Civilisation in front of Ancient Civilisation of Aryans!!!

[@neutralfellow9736]

The Indo-Greek relations after the collapse of the Maurya are very interesting, especially after the Greek conquest of western India by Demetrius of Bactria. The Greeks brought with them much of their culture, but also adopted much of Indian culture as well.

[@franciscolomeli8931]

If I'm not mistaken the Greeks brought over techniques of how to make life like statues which the Indians used to make the first human depictions of buddha and the Greeks got this from the Egyptians

[@wolfgangkranek376]

@@franciscolomeli8931 Only the earliest Greek (archaic) statues somewhat resemble the Egyptian ones. Classical Greek art is quite different, and actually influenced the art of all other cultures around the Mediterranean and beyond. Also Egyptian art, which was especially true from the Hellenistic period on (after Alexander freed Egypt from the Persians). www.metmuseum.org/de/art/collection/search/253370 With the spread of Buddhism the Greek style of naturalistic depictions and other minor artistic elements in the end even reached Japan. That said, of course every culture adapted it to their own taste and tradition.

[@franciscolomeli8931]

@@wolfgangkranek376 Yup couldn't have said it better myself

[@vve2059]

Kalash people in Khyber paktun region are the last remnants of Indo greeks that are part hindus

[@TNAOD]

@@franciscolomeli8931 The tradition of statue making existed in India well before any hellenic intervention. Here is an excellent documentary series detailing the evolution of Indian sculpture kzbin.info/aero/PLqtVCj5iilH4UdtnLCYMrjI-zspVpJYQ_ Greek intervention definitely increased the popularity of stone work as opposed to the traditional Indian metal or clay work (Indian granite is comparatively harder to carve.) The hindu pantheon had always been represented by figures and statues. The Indus valley civilisation lay tribute to this (the priest king of Mohenjo Daro is an infamous example). The Greeks were the first to portray the Buddha in human form but weren't the ones to introduce "human like" statues. Indian sculpting culture had already been depicting human figures for millennia. The Greeks just represented the Buddha in the flesh as opposed to his allegories- like the flat foot or bodhi tree. The characteristic difference between indian sculpture and Greco sculpture is the use of descriptions to create pieces as opposed to the hellenic tradition of using models. Sculptors were expected to use the descriptions of the God's in the Vedas in their creation of statues. Lines such as "light swelling of the belly" were used to describe the baby Krishna and this depiction of his belly is evident in almost all primordial sculpted pieces. As Hinduism places emphasis on shrine based worship there would have been a necessity to create sculpture from it's conception.

[@abhashukla2281]

6:00 And we are told that India didn't have a permanent standing army till the time Alauddin Khilji became the sultan.

[@ola1847]

They tried there best to erased our history

[@SR-mv2mf]

Yes NCERT librandus will say that for sickularism

[@guileniam]

That's a straight up lie, who says this to you? There's tons of evidence there was a standing army

[@BEAST-45]

Here comes mulla

[@harshvardhansarmasarma1228]

NCERT aur CBSE sirf logon koun wrong information aur wrong facts or dete Hein history ke kisi bhi topic ke upar koi , bhi aache se topic ke baren mein detail mein Nehi bolte

[@NoobPTFO]

“Their favorite mode of exercising is by... Friction. Applied in various ways-“ *looks nervously at Kama Sutra*

[@happyhealthy7786]

Lmao

[@sudhirchopde3334]

Why nervous ? A husbandman marries for procreation,to get helpmates and for pleasure! The woman has her own education and social status....by prostitution he means she has aright to independently choose whom to favour,a ghastly thought for the patriarchal and male dictatorial Greeks...NB:the women armed accompanying the king! Unheard of in Greece( if true)

[@giantwhalepeen1763]

🦞

[@greensky01]

Think he was describing 🧘‍♂️ yoga

[@vivz1000]

@@greensky01 or massage

[@shiva4ever]

Quite a big slap to communist narratives about the caste system in India. It States here that brahmins were neither servants not masters of anyone....so the question of them oppressing other people doesn't arise. It also says that farmers were given protection by the state....arable land was protected and they were not required to present themselves in the army and were not required to fight.... this shows the regard in which they were kept and how well they were taken care of. It also says that artisans were not required pay taxes and exempted from taxes. So how does it fit with the narrative of leftist who go on talking about oppressed castes and all that bs???

[@mkelkar1]

Linguistic, textual, genetic and archaeological evidence for the Out of India Theory of Indo European Languages Baghpat Chariots, Weapons and the Horse in the Harappan Civilization - Dr. BK Manjul kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIvZfKOgn7mjnck Findings from the latest genetic study conducted by ASI in collaboration withe Reich Lab at Harvard using the ancient DNA from Rakhigarhi slides at 29:00 mark kzbin.info/www/bejne/eprSZHimZdOfrJY kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGW6d55mnqp-a80 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGGvmGSYlJ2Ba5Y kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6ispmaaitigqrs Here are the tribes that spread the Indo European languages from South Asia to West Asia, Central Asia and to Europe Avestan) Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Sairima (Śimyu), Dahi (Dāsa). NE Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Nuristani/Piśācin (Viṣāṇin). Pakhtoonistan (NW Pakistan), South Afghanistan: Iranian: Pakhtoon/Pashtu (Paktha). Baluchistan (SW Pakistan), SE Iran: Iranian: Bolan/Baluchi (Bhalāna). NE Iran: Iranian: Parthian/Parthava (Pṛthu/Pārthava). SW Iran: Iranian: Parsua/Persian (Parśu/Parśava). NW Iran: Iranian: Madai/Mede (Madra). Uzbekistan: Iranian: Khiva/Khwarezmian (Śiva). W. Turkmenistan: Iranian: Dahae (Dāsa). Ukraine, S, Russia: Iranian: Alan (Alina), Sarmatian (Śimyu). Turkey: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Phryge/Phrygian (Bhṛgu). Romania, Bulgaria: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Dacian (Dāsa). Greece: Greek: Hellene (Alina). Albania: Albanian: Sirmio (Śimyu). Shrikant Gangadhar Talageri talageri.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-rigveda-and-aryan-theory-rational_27.html Five waves of Indo-European expansion: a preliminary model (2018) Igor A Tonoyan-Belyayev I. Tonoyan-Belyayev www.academia.edu/36998766/Five_waves_of_Indo-European_expansion_a_preliminary_model_2018_

[@shiva4ever]

@Tejas Misra Firstly, please use proper language instead of BADTAMEEZI ...! Got it? I do not entertain low vibration kids.

[@shiva4ever]

Some deluded people think that being limited to the family profession is OPPRESSIVE....these same people laud China which literally dictates who should do what but is still their ideal! Moreover, these same people opposed the abrogation of 35A which FORCES dalits in Kashmir to keep doing manual scavenging and sewage work BY THE LAWS OF 35A!!!! Hypocrisy of the leftist pseudos is mindboggling...!

[@darzhanacf8983]

Thank you brother/sister for writing this much needed comment 🙏

[@wumao50centtroll52]

I think except for maybe Chinese traveller's Greeks were the first to record India and Indian culture that has survived till today.

[@PS-ic4bp]

Interesting description of ancient India. On eating alone - thats what Ayurveda prescribes so unsurprising but some descriptions are totally bizarre -

[@jcastle614]

These are so awesome! Like a trip back in time. Eagerly awaiting the next one .

[@adisura9904]

Another beautiful episode! If Nalanda and taxila survived who knows what more treasure if knowledge would have still been alive. Yeah just like Alexandria's library, India had a couple of universities. P.S for the creator- do look into these universities.

[@eee9034]

Both nalanda and taxila universities were bhudhist universities, as all hindu(sanatan dharm) universities were erased to ground by peaceful invaders, who knows what knowledge those universities must have hold

[@otomackena7610]

@@eee9034 both had Buddhists and Hindus.

[@eee9034]

@@otomackena7610 yeah, you can say that also

[@mohitmate9190]

@PIYUSH Jaiswal chanakya is frictional charector There is no mention of chankya in any inscription of Mauryan dynasty

[@mohitmate9190]

@PIYUSH Jaiswal and there were no hindu religion at that time Because "hindu" word itself is given by Mughals and hindu is abuse which is used by mughals Because hindu this word is not mentioned in any manuscript of the so called hindu dharam It was varna dharma or brahmin dharam which got it's existence after gupt dynasty end

[@The_Gallowglass]

Isn't it great to live now? You could theoretically be a soldier, a philosopher, an artisan, and a businessman all at the same time.

[@cashmoney2159]

It Also leads to confusion

[@allhailnataliakills6858]

@@cashmoney2159 that's okay

[@sanjunumo]

You’re correct in one sense. Wrong in another. It’s all about perspective. You can be imperfect many things or a perfect one thing. That old quantity vs quality philosophy. And there are illustrations of one person switching professions. But yes, it was sure that you could fit in only one caste at one time.

[@dashcammalaysia1748]

That's an apt description of every Instagram "influencer" today - activist (social warrior/soldier), pseudo philosopher (encouraging quotes), artisan (Instagram lol) and selling products (businessman).

[@keerts8986]

It is like knowing everything but master of none.

[@bumblebeeeoptimus]

hum.. so all the population of India is *INDI*genous.. makes sense

[@gazibizi9504]

Think like this, suppose a group of mixed people grew up, married and had kids in a society where there was no concept of race or ethnicity but only caste and language. Won't they all claim to be indigenous?

[@prashr4075]

He is just joking Indigenous word has INDI in it. I wonder since the word Indigo is derived frm word India, maybe of similar origin. (ofcourse Greek language )

[@Zorro9129]

@ARKAPRAVA DAS And it's a travesty.

[@chawrakaxom559]

@@Zorro9129 tbh I agree.

[@automnejoy5308]

ARKAPRAVA DAS I wouldn't say everyone in India is brown, though. Some are fair, some very dark. So all the mixing really didn't get rid of the diversity of skin tones.

[@NateVDZ]

Ancient India is best India

[@eee9034]

After it was looted for 1200years it became a mess

[@snowfrosty1]

EE E Arab Muslims, Turko-Mongols, and later Europeans only took advantage of an already declining and weakened Indian subcontinent. The blame is partially on the Indian sides as well historically.

[@sadcapyyoutube]

@@snowfrosty1 We thought of them as friends but we payed the price.

[@justadummy8076]

@@snowfrosty1we were too accepting of all cultures & outsiders, and greed amongst local rulers who sold each other out led to the downfall of a once great nation, hopefully Bharat can rebuild itself once again

[@InsightGrid620]

Until 1000Ad

[@obesity259]

I've seen all of your videos and i absolutely love them, and the way you narrate! Please make more videos about ancient India if you can. Thank you :)

[@TacKAL-J]

4:37, that place is from NAGALAND. One of the 8 sister states of India.

[@sarthak1109]

@@amritaparida3992 no it's a cousin 😂😀

[@sarthak1109]

@@amritaparida3992 because sikkim was a different country and 7sister are 1 state🙃🙂😂

[@IMZaMaNa37]

Gogoi: why would you even say that? You know for a fact that's not true

[@prashr4075]

Indian culture customs has remained the same. Even now. The story of men with backward foot heard frm my grandma and its due to curse. The story frm BC is even said today in folklore. How strange.

[@jamesstevenson7725]

Bullshit

[@hh-zm9gr]

@Catch_Me_If_You_Can Our entire culture is oral culture

[@creepy_assassin6234]

@@hh-zm9gr do you have any idea how kinky that sounds

[@ambujbhaskar9288]

@@creepy_assassin6234 lol

[@eyquemesque]

@Saurabh Adhikari They were completely destroyed by Mao and his "cultural revolution", so I suppose a lot has been lost, sadly...

[@risingwarrior7451]

After come Muslim all brotherhood, all culture, all peace, all ancient university, all tradition destroyed. 😡😡😡

[@JacobTheIndoAmerican]

Hi, here's a suggestion for a future video - lbn Batuta, Nicolo de Conti, Abdur Razzaq, Athanasius Nikitin, Ludvico de Vorthema, Duarte Barbosa, Dominigo Paes, Fernao Nuniz have visited the city of medieval Vijayanagara. They gave grand accounts of it. It was in the top 3 cities of the world at the time.

[@ViditPatel-oi7rn]

Ibn battuta is very unfderated I hope he get some footage 😥

[@gabbar51ngh]

Nice Suggestions

[@sagirahmed9309]

Perhaps the unicorns mentioned are one horned rhinos. One horned rhinos were used to be found in North India. But now they are found only in Assam, a northeastern state and some parts of Nepal. Assam used to have Javan rhinos also until recently. They both are one horned. It also had the two horned Sumatran Rhino.

[@tvrulz46]

It could also be the one horned unicorn depicted on Indus seals

[@ritobhashbhattacharya2795]

but rhino horns don't emerge from between the eyebrows as stated

[@brian0902]

@ritobhashbhattacharya2795 Most likely, it wasn't an exact match to the animal, since some information was obtained while the Ancient Greeks were trading in India. Consequently, certain details may not be entirely accurate, such as the probable depiction of the rhino. Many economic aspects were probably based on firsthand accounts, including information about military and social forces. However, details about animals and similar topics were likely second- or even third-hand accounts. Traders, with a limited time for trade and travel, would unlikely venture into the inner parts of the subcontinent to obtain precise information about animals. It's possible that the traders relied on information about animals they consumed and seen near the villages they were in, perhaps provided by the Indians they traded with. Nevertheless, some aspects remain as second-hand accounts the only Greeks that would have first hand accounts are ones that settled in the areas and never left and so traveled deep inland.

[@harshvardhansarmasarma1228]

As a native of Assam, and a wildlife lover and nerd I can say that you are telling the truth indeed , One - horned Rihno and The Asiatic lion were found in every part of India, but died or become extinct due to overhunting during the Colonial period by some British officials and Kings and Nawabs during that time because this was a recreational fun activity to hunt animals with guns in forest.

[@harshvardhansarmasarma1228]

One one population of One-horned Rihnoceros survived from extinction that is present in today's Kaziranga National Park in Assam.

[@BxBxProductions]

Past: Indians used to not steal Present: Itunes gift card plz ;-;

[@rishabhuniyal2284]

lol! i am Indian and i too receive such spam messages from African and Asian people

[@Bialy_1]

Centuries of exploitation by British...

[@user-el9os9pk7x]

Biały and we the same by the Romans, so what’s your point?

[@266Abhijit]

Oh we got robbed big time by europeans..the biggest robbery ever.. u can see museum in London some of our stolen wealth is in display there.

[@aryanchakraborty5175]

We are doing tit for tat , like how the west stole our gold and philosophies , now we are scamming you.

[@ramakrishnanpanchapakesan299]

1:15 "All the population of India was indigenous. No colonising in or colonising out." That is how the WEST, ( Greece ) knew India, 1500 years before British came, and, planted fake Aryan Invasion Theory.

[@dss6838]

Yes

[@Jay-tu9vf]

Yes but today it is finally debunked The data for this is summarized by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, arguably the world's foremost population geneticist, and his colleagues, in the following words: "Results show that Indian tribal and caste populations derive largely from the same genetic heritage of the Pleistocene southern and Western Asians and have received limited gene flow from external regions since the Holocene. The phylogeography [neighboring branches] of the primal mtDNA and Y-chromosome founders suggests that these southern Asian Pleistocene coastal settlers from Africa would have provided the inocula for the subsequent differentiation of the distinctive Eastern and Western Eurasian gene pools. " - The Genetic Heritage of the Earliest Settlers Persist Both in Indian Tribal and Caste Populations: by T. Kisilvid, S.Rootsi, M. Metspahi, S. Mastana, K. Kaldma, J. Parik, E. Metspalu, M. Adojan, H.-V. Tolk, V. Stephanov, M. Golge, E. Usanga, S.S. Papiha, C. Cinnioulu, R. King, L. Cavalli-Sforza, P.A. Unterhill and R. Villems. 2003. American Journal of Human Genetics, 72: pp 313 - 332. Put in non-technical language, it means that the Indian population and all its varied constituents, however defined - upper castes, lower casters, tribal (or so-called indigenous peoples), Dravidians and so forth - are all mainly of indigenous origin, and the contribution of immigrants (gene flow) is negligible

[@ramakrishnanpanchapakesan299]

@@Jay-tu9vf Thanks for posting this vital research finding, debunking disproving the Aryan Invasion Theory..

[@meduseld6610]

As far as I'm aware, the argument isn't about the genetic displacement of the Dravidian peoples, but more where their language, culture and religion comes from. The argument would be, the reason why we don't see much genetic evidence for Aryan, or Indo-European-speaking peoples of the Steppe in the majority of India's population, is because typically seen throughout many invasions by these Steppe peoples, they usually only replace the elites. Which makes sense if you understand a little about their culture. When they grew too many in number, or had lots of young and eager men, the tribe would cast them out to find new lands to make for their own. And with this comes a motif common in foundation myths throughout many cultures that come from these Indo-European speaking peoples, in their reckoning, the founding patriarchs of a new tribe are often brothers. So by replacing the elites, through this position of power they managed to give the Dravidian peoples an Indo-European language, and a pagan pantheon that also appears related because of numerous comparions that can be drawn with other Indo-European-speaking tribes that have since come to be. Even in etymological terms there are Hindu gods related to gods from tribes that descend from the Steppe. If you don't believe in an invasion, I believe there is strong evidence these Steppe peoples were able to greatly influence the culture of India's ancestors in whatever way that may be

[@axelaguirre5014]

Then how do you explain that you speak a Indo-European language?

[@raghvendrasingh9984]

India and Greeks has very ancient ties, at each and every aspect i.e, Matrimonial, Army, religious etc. Many of the greeks influenced by Hinduism and adopted it. These are all inscribed on the pillars in many parts of India. Indian kings has some amount of greek soldiers in their army. World was amazing that time.

[@AaronBiswas]

That's why south indians are the real Indians

[@ashesofhopesinabonfireofdr6341]

@@AaronBiswas you're as much real Indians as the Red Indians are real Americans.

[@missourimongoose8858]

Not surprised considering the Greeks controlled Afghanistan for awhile

[@ashesofhopesinabonfireofdr6341]

@@missourimongoose8858 shut up, don't spread misinformation like your life depends on it.

[@Nero6570]

@@AaronBiswas so you define nationality on the basis of directions?XD

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

How different yet similar our land was back then.

[@alexv3357]

I mean, the Greeks didn't exactly have a terribly clear understanding of how India worked back then, so this isn't super accurate

[@ricardogalvan1031]

I agree with the other poster. For example, the thing about the monkeys rolling down stones. I am certain he got that idea by seeing stone carvings, perhaps one with a monkey and a boulder.

[@aconsciousnaut5323]

@@ricardogalvan1031 Yeah the carvings and paintings in which the monkey god hanuman lifts up a mountain.

[@saloni22815]

Ikr

[@allahlesboslu2_9]

@@aconsciousnaut5323 hmm it's still better than abrahamic saatann god 😝😂😂😂

[@debrathiel824]

I love elephants and I love India

[@AlexanderNewman-v1x]

India 2000 years ago was more advanced than modern day.

[@NGP11101970]

No caste system as narrated. But four different proffesion are basic duties of mankind divided as basic dharma. Persons who has basic quality are identified as any one of four dharma. Example who interested in business are Vyshyas or who guard country like military are Kshatriyas which here referred as caste

[@70sera-k7x]

Atleast he clearly mentioned Brahmins can come from any caste. Otherwise most pleople make it brahmanwadi religion. Thank god

[@melgibson3928]

Varna literally translates to "colour". The Manusmriti contains laws that forbid the mixing between the Arya and non-Arya castes. Manusmṛiti (3: 15-19) "An Aryan who climbs into bed with a non-Aryan goes to hell; if he begets a son in her, he loses the status of Aryan. No redemption is prescribed for a man who drinks the saliva from the lips of a non-Aryan woman or is tainted by her birth or begets her son.”

[@ma_na_gurab]

@@melgibson3928 manusmriti is not a shruti ie main book So I don't beleive any Indians follow that in the past

[@middlewayers]

Caste system existed

[@The-ud8zd]

​@@melgibson3928 Aryan 🤣🤣 already proven complete wrong , Western countries always wanted to control others Pakistan was created by Western countries for their profit China already knows about Western countries this tricks West will be against china in future also Same goes with India Like George Soros mention he want his party to safe democracy in India Means hypocrisy is on the another level by Westerns

[@panayotisdamianakis3658]

That was a great insight. When 2 amazing cultures clash and end up, in the spirit of learning and sharing, do incredible things together for the good of humankind. There's lessons to be learned for todays warmongering nations.

[@insalubriousdithyramb1742]

Its sad that the west doesn't know anything about India's history and simply assume that we were tree people before the Brits came and "saved" us.

[@JB-uy1bw]

Haha colonialism goes chaching

[@pierren___]

I. Philosophers II. Husbandsmen III. Sheperds IV. Artisans V. Military VI. Overseers (informators) VII. Counsellors

[@miss42310]

Sure buddy

[@hendrikvanleeuwen9110]

Those Dogmen sure got around!

[@christosgiannopoulos828]

Ancient furries

[@wyrdwulf999]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kóryos

[@CR-nh6sx]

I request this channel to create more videos on Indian Ancient History. THANK YOU!

[@MegaRazzzz]

Heard a quote some time back which said that India is an ancient civilization which is now in an advanced state of decay.

[@sharatsasidharan5247]

It is undergoing a renaissance and resurgence since a 100 years now. It decayed heavily during the middle ages. Indian society is undergoing through a massive shift in attitudes and assimilation. It's just baffling to witness how much change occurs in each generation in India these days.

[@globalcitizenn]

You speak as if it passively “decayed”. It was invaded & colonised & brutally destroyed & looted for greed.

[@MegaRazzzz]

You both have made very shallow interpretations of this quote. Look for the deeper meaning.

[@soumyasekharbiswas2017]

Invasion and partition of this great land is painful.

[@megamammonmultiplier]

History brothers ;D love it!

[@koachem05]

Brother being from the Himalayan state of india.. I'll tell you pne thing that language, culture, traditions differ every 100kms in india.. The caste system is more complex like everything in india.. But definitely it has so much to be explored history philosophy geography spirituality ..we'd had rich past. Everything is mystery here..

[@mrmister1657]

Could you ever in the future possibly do some of these type videos in ancient Africa (not just Egypt) the Mali empire the Ashanti empire the benin empire, and he’s their are plenty of “descriptions” and stuff, plenty of French and Portuguese travelers notes and stuff even Ibn Battuta visited Mali and written down his experience

[@dhananjaybiawat9037]

Looks like Megasthenes was high on Manala hash ( reputed to be the best hash in the world ) when he saw those dog headed men 🤣

[@Oceansta]

😂

[@maharishi9111]

Damn 😂😂😂😂😂 By the way. ... I too is high when typing this comment.☺

[@harshitsisodiya8077]

P. S manala originates around same place which megasthenes r talking about 😂

[@asomaskanda]

Guy must have inhaled something. At times he seems to be in a fairy tale world. The long and arduous travel from Greece all the way to India must have taken toll on his mentation!

[@helsreach001]

This seems true ,in india many region have such tradition like in Maharashtra ,shignapur where people used to don't lock houses . People don't drink liquor .

[@DarthLore00]

Cool stuff man, really

[@LeglessWonder]

11:49 "their favorite mode of exercising the body is by ... friction" *BOW CHICKA BOW WOW*

[@BradyPostma]

0:50 - The sundial sometimes casts no shadow in Southern India, and constellations differ. It's almost like people knew the world was round before Columbus! haha

[@jokuvaan5175]

There is at least one Greek philosopher from few hundred years BC that even defined the radius of the Earth with few hundred kilometer accuracy. Though the value getting so close was lucky since the methods he used and assumtions he made weren't very accurate. He measured the angle of shadows cast in wells in two different Egyptian cities, measured the distance between them and then applied some basic geometry

[@felice9907]

might very well be, given the fact that they knew the atom already back then!

[@oldrepublic3286]

@@jokuvaan5175 Eratosthenes

[@Chiaros]

@@felice9907 They didn't "know the atom" as we do, they simply assumed everything is made of tiny bits because it could be cut into pieces too small to see. Though yes, the world was presumed a sphere by the scholars of many peoples back then, including central Asian nomads that have left some charts signifying that knowledge.

[@BradyPostma]

@@jokuvaan5175 - I do love that story! @Felice - They had the word "atom," but it meant quite a different thing to them.

[@karolsiejek5176]

Striking fact is that only Indian civilization survived and still flourishing while the others (Greeks, Egyptians, etc) died out long ago.

[@jewelmathews1444]

There are still greeks & Egyptians, they didnt die out

[@nmv2327]

@@jewelmathews1444 i think he means culture not people.

[@updown9697]

@PIYUSH Jaiswal what do you mean?

[@updown9697]

@Rose Vassiliou I think he mean culture

[@karolsiejek5176]

@Rose Vassiliou Greeks & Romans are now part of western/christian civilization, and Egypt is fully Islamic world. The old Greek & Egyptian civilization can be seen in museum only.

[@puneetmishra4726]

About dog-headed men, in ancient India, there were many stereotypes about people of other regions, like "faces of people of those lands are like of dogs or they are horsefaced" Those stereotypes gradually became name for population of that particular region. I think Megasthenes took that literally.

[@AlexanderosD]

These cynocephali ! They pop up in quite a few ancient accounts. Ancient memes.

[@satvikkeshtwal7662]

Pre-islam Indian subcontinent was amazing 😍😍😍

[@OnlineMD]

Surely the Greeks could *not* have used the word "Caste." For that word was created by the Portuguese when they came to India about 500 years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste

[@zubankesari7464]

Yea the Portuguese also created the word "JATHI".. *CHECKMATE*

[@christominello]

The Greeks were also not writing in English, like the video. I think you’re onto something!

[@Galavya41]

@@zubankesari7464 Not Jathi....Jathi is a much later thing and is not a part of the original Varna Vyastha . What the greeks describe here is still close to the original Varna system( as in the Brahmins were still not allowed to own anything and were supplied everything which is required by the society ) but signs of mutations have started to appear . A jati may be associated with a unique job .There was no Jati system in ancient India, and even the Chinese Scholar Hsuan Tsang has not mentioned anything about it in his writings. The literal translation of the word Jati gives us the word birth. Jatis developed much later in India to reflect the trade or profession of a particular community. So, while Gandhi comes from Gandha which means smell, the community of Gandhis is the one that trades in perfumes. Dhobi community came from the word dhona which meant to wash, and thus Dhobis were people who washed other people’s clothes. Thus, a jati is a community engaged in a particular profession or trade.

[@hypernova1173]

@Mouli Ojha yo brainwashed commie come back to your Bhartiya roots, don't believe anything your english master left you.

[@Retro-Future-Land]

The Greeks used the term 'race' instead.

[@iamanengineer9639]

Ancient India was so advanced

[@miss42310]

Crazy how people aren't mad about the many wives thing

[@madhursaxena2645]

@@miss42310 Maybe because it was common, u are the only one being surprised here.

[@dv9239]

Didn't you hear him say wives prostituted themselves

[@TheUsuallySilentOne]

Hearing the Greeks accounts on other civilizations really makes me wish more Mayan codices survived (or better yet have none burned), just to know the accounts on other meso-american civilizations like the teotihuacans (do we know what the Maya called them?)

[@Hun_Uinaq]

Yes it was a real pity that so many of my ancestors books were burned. I do not know what they would’ve called the people of that place. Very sad to say that. An eternal curse on the memory of Diego De Landa.

[@heyfitzpablum]

Great comment. As a Greek and lover of Meso-American history I'd LOVE to have more codices available to study. One of the best books I've read is 'Breaking the Maya Code', if you have not read it please do. It's fascinating!

[@nw3877]

India lost a lot of history too to Muslim invaders. Burnt thousands of temples and Leading Universities and libraries. Imagine what was written in those books which burnt for 13 days straight

[@BirdTurdMemes]

Had no idea that the Greeks had the Great Courses Plus

[@revolvency]

I still love how ancient civilizations always have access to great course plus

[@GuilhermeSilva-xv9eb]

These videos on historical accounts are incredible! Great channel

[@ripvanmarston1241]

It's indeed sad that India is the only civilization (out of the ancient ones) that's still alive and prospering.

[@satisfyinggames8761]

poor country india

[@ripvanmarston1241]

@@satisfyinggames8761 India might be poor today in terms of money but not in terms of Culture. As far as the money goes, it's the fastest growing economy.

[@namankulshrestha5373]

​​@@satisfyinggames8761 bro every civilization have some downfall like from last 1000 yrs we face islamic invasion then colonisation etc After independence we are in democracy not like china with thousands of social issue and uneducated poor population But we proff that in just last 75 yrs we are stand at world 5th largest economy By 2030 it will 3rd And per capita increase our university doing good So every country have different journey We have our own But it's our time wait for some time 🙂

[@reddragon100]

@@ripvanmarston1241 true. Even china became poor and rebounded after 1980s. Every one has their downturn in short time but everyone rebounds

[@ripvanmarston1241]

@@reddragon100 Exactly 💯

[@ittiamgg]

I can't help but wonder if Megasthanes encountered an Alien race when he mentions (14:12) of men with just two orifices for nose and strange body parts and living up in the mountains wearing animal skin for clothing. Indian mythology is full of such stories and beings. The Hindu god Shiva himself is depicted as wearing tiger skin around him and living up in the mountains with strange beings. Seems to add up.

[@Mr.Obongo]

You’re not alone I’ve wondered this too. I feel like aliens might’ve been chillin on the earth in those days. Nobody knew about space no one would’ve speculated they were aliens like we would now of we were to witness them.

[@Mr.Obongo]

@Khushal Singh Maurya Oh shit you’re right…

[@oliverkalamata2753]

This channel never fails....

[@livingpiano]

Just one point - the caste or jaathi as we call it was a bit flexible - plenty of evidence that lower class rose to become kings.

[@WorthlessWinner]

India seems more like a triangle than a quadrilateral to me

[@BradyPostma]

I agree. But I guess they were counting the western border with Persia as a fourth side.

[@samuelnathan312]

Only if you exclude the entire north. What is now Pakistan was part Indo-Persian on the west and wholly Indian on the east.

[@aconsciousnaut5323]

Add up Northern India borderd by Himalaya and Hindu Kush mountains, and you will get a quadrilateral.

[@Amadeo790]

Remember that cartography was very backwards back then and satellites did not exist so it was all my eye.

[@gazibizi9504]

Look at an image of the subcontinent, it is quadrilateral

[@Leo-us4wd]

Nice, any ancient chinese accounts of the Tocharian?

[@TheZapan99]

This video includes the account of their genocide by the general Min. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXOblpiMmZyFla8

[@koryos4401]

@@TheZapan99 Ran Min genocided the Jie, a Yeniseian tribe of the Xiongnu not the Tocharians. They weren't genocided, they were absorbed into the Old Uyhghurs.

[@joydeeproy1580]

Megathenes Indika got burnt in Athens fire. This version 2nd hand account of someone who read the book or parts of Indika that survived the fire.

[@RiverSprite30]

They didn't have meal times because something is growing in the front yard year-round, if you get hungry, just pluck something off a tree. I don't know why starvation is a thing there. Just plant an orange tree or something. It's above 80 degrees year round there. It should produce plenty.

[@DDTipsy]

7 castes 1. Philosophers and priests 2. Bureaucrates, generals, kings advisors, magistrates 3 Overseers,Govt officers and Administration 4. Military and soldiers 5. Farmers and producers 6. Artisans, Blacksmiths, pottery makers 7. Shephards and animal catchers No person could live, eat with or marry outside his caste

[@MandeepSingh-bv2zw]

Wow... even at that time good care of guests (foreigners) was so important for us.

[@papastalin1543]

Ah yes 2 oldest and greatest civilization ❤️

[@tsarnature6587]

Greetings from russia❤

[@papastalin1543]

@@tsarnature6587 greetings from India to Russian brothers♥️

[@maxpis4412]

neither oldest nor greatest, really

[@papastalin1543]

@@maxpis4412 cope

[@maxpis4412]

@@papastalin1543 oldest were Egypt and Mesopotamia (India is kinda close if you include Harappans which is icky, but Greeks nowhere near), meanwhile greatest were arguably China and Rome (maybe Islam too?)

[@hector5851]

So every culture thought that the rest had no writing systems (at least a common pattern).

[@veyev4320]

So the origins of ware-wolves and unicorns are in India!?

[@firstlast5454]

Dog headed humans were a pretty common myth

[@melgibson3928]

A lot of pagan warriors in Europe also wore animal skins of bears or wolves on their heads and backsides as a sort of animism to "imbue" the strength or speed of the particular animal, as did Roman legionaries. In the video's context I think of it as the helmets worn by Hunnic marauders, and later on the Turks and Mongols

[@armaanpatialdogra3577]

@@firstlast5454 who knows perphaps it was indian bears who he want to mansion

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

Could you please do your ads either at the beginning or the end of the video? It's a little jarring to have an ad pop up unannounced in the middle of the content.

[@himanshusingh5214]

The one-horned animal is the One-horned Rhino found in Assam.

[@anshulj99]

From people mostly being rich, country with least thefts and pure air-water to India being one of the poorest per capita economies, scam capital and the land of dirtiest air and river. Happy Republic Day :/

[@puneetmishra4726]

Consequences of foreign rule

[@PrinceChauhan010]

Improve don't blame

[@princezuko6804]

​@@PrinceChauhan010✨

[@arfeen0577]

I read somewhere that changing caste was possible through acquiring the required knowledge and skills, but with time this possibility was abolished few hundred years ago, is it true, can someone comment ?

[@Sanatani_kattar]

Yeah it's true

[@agnithesuryavanshi522]

Yeah...read about acts passed by british to compulsory mention your caste and tell which community or caste you belong since ancient times

[@greaterbharat4175]

Yes , also their is no concept of untouchablity was in any scripture of sankrit, Tamil but 1400 year ago Europeans documented their own culture of untouchablity which is stopped some century ago ,by fact Britisher introduced untouchablity in India

[@stalinsampras]

@@greaterbharat4175 British introducted untouchability? And people of india just accepted and followed it aye?? You freaking joker

[@aaradhyarawat7589]

@@stalinsampras India was Under 500 Years Rule of Muslims.

[@rajsheaj]

The ancient Greeks and ancient Indians learnt much from each other.....but of course, Megasthenes also thought multiple "wrong" Things....

[@heyfitzpablum]

All societies have 'wrong' things, the Greeks had them as well. All in all, I think Magasthenes wrote a pretty detailed account of India at that time-at least from the perspective of an outsider. Obviously his observations weren't always accurate, but even when he didn't get it right his views were interesting. It's a shapshot of India at that time from the perspective of a tourist.

[@wankawanka3053]

I mean yeah many ancient people thought wrong

[@joshm3484]

Lost it when they said "Clean water and pure air of India."

[@indrason6974]

You are looking at it from a 21st century stand point at the time India would have offered the best resources that existed in the world

[@Peacemaker-96]

Ya man, it gone downhill since then

[@masterhind2036]

No thanks to europeans

[@Arya_amsha]

thanks to your poeple

[@rishabhyadav6705]

Today's India is not that bharat

[@iridoceleperistalsis3790]

You guys should check out indus valley civilization one of the oldest and their language is yet to decipher.

[@Skyy0108]

People of indus spoke at least two languages which were proto-indo European (proto-sanskirt) and the other one was proto-dravidian.

[@truthninja3922]

Great Videos. Thanks

[@prathameshhalade8230]

I am not so well into the history, and don’t know why this video is in my recommendation (maybe due to the fact that I like to read philosophy in free time) but does this video even slightly suggest that Greeks had a similar caste system as India? I mean slight divisions based on occupation is common, and since I was reading Plato’s ‘The Republic’ I know some divisions were there too, but were they as brutal as they were in India? I mean like abolishment and stuff? I seriously want to know, it would add to my knowledge, reply if you know something.

[@theblancmange1265]

There were many city states across thousands of years, so I can't describe everything. It wasn't like in India. There were times and places, when and where people were bound to their land and trade. (The son had to do the same job his father did and live where he did.) There were the slaves, freedmen (they weren't looked upon favourably for generations, becasue "Your (grand)dad was a slave!"). There was social mobility for the free people. Becoming wealthy wasn't an issue, getting full citizenship may be. (Laws were different based on time and place about it.)

[@prathameshhalade8230]

The Blancmange thanks! I would probably take interest reading it in my free time, I always had interest in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle trio, but never read beyond this about ancient or even modern Greece.

[@otomackena7610]

All society had caste system. Egypt had 8 levels (Pharoahs >government officials >Soldiers >Scribes>Merchants>Artisans>farmer>Slaves) Mesopotamia had 6(King>Priests>scribes>Merchants &Artisans>Commoners>Slaves) ,Japan also had 8 samurai is one caste among them ,china also had such systems

[@laurisafine7932]

Judaism didn't have a caste system. It had a priestly family, the Cohens, and judges, but G-d said having a human king was, in most cases, an asinine idea (because He is King alone). Then Jesus turned the master-slave relationship upside down, so you might want to include the Bible in your reading list, or listen to it on youtube: Alexander Scourby Bible audio. I listen at play-speed .75 (in settings cog), to let it properly sink in :-)

[@heyfitzpablum]

Greece had a society based on occupation, but not so rigid as the caste system. Theoretically, anyone could move from one occupation to another. Of course they had nobility, but it wasn't considered on such a high plane as in nations like Persia. Greece was not a rich nation from a material standpoint, they looked on in awe regarding the empires to the east. Having little material wealth to start with is kind of a great leveler, it prevents separation of society.