Hellenism In the East: Indo-Greeks & The Thousand Cities of Bactria

[@HistoryTime]

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[@ChrisDyn1]

Why is this vid so quiet? If it's loud, I can turn it down easily, but when it's too quiet like in this case... I can't hear a fucking word you say. Counterproductive, no?

[@kevinhayes6933]

U need to read books by Peter green. He says that Alexander the Great didn't trust the Greeks and used his own Macedon troops

[@labanasikhfedration]

Yavana/Yona/Lonia are officially Lavana/Lona/Lonia, who are known as ancient salt merchant of india in hinduism as well as in sikhism, they have found all over the world, egypt 🇪🇬 has 30% of Lavana population in there, there is some place in ciaro called “ Darb-Al-Labana “, Even egypt 🇪🇬 capital is Tanta/Tanda , ciaro. Tanda is lavanki language word which is used for Trader caravans. and one more thing these all lavana are habitat in india on ancient sea trade routes and ancient silk/salt routes as well.

[@art.f7973]

@@kevinhayes6933 you mean the skopians who try to pass for Macedonians....

[@corvus_king3282]

Some Greek ideas actually influenced Buddhism and in the Indo-Greek kingdom one of the kings named Menander 1 actually converted to Buddhism....that's why in some early Buddhism art from that region had Heracles and other Greek figures

[@meenishjaiswal1790]

Can you please tell me which Greek ideas influenced Buddhism?....yes the Greeks who settled at the boundaries of Indian Subcontinent accepted Buddhism and also try to built the monasteries in Greek style...

[@corvus_king3282]

@@meenishjaiswal1790 The main influence I can think of off the top of is the fact is was because of the Greeks that they human images of the Buddha. Before the Greeks, Buddhist never really shown the Buddha in human form. They would show him as a foot print or a Bodhi tree. Also, its also likely due to the Indo-Greek Monks that Buddhism spread to Central Asia. In Fact Bodhidharma the legendary founder of Chan/Zen Buddhism was mostly like a Persian or form a related group like the Sogdia.

[@corvus_king3282]

@@meenishjaiswal1790 Also, by no means I'm an expert. I just a have studied a bit of Buddhism and art history in college and was a religion major.

[@meenishjaiswal1790]

@@corvus_king3282 I'm sorry but you are wrong at your studies..... First it's still a theory that the Greeks were first to start human statues of Buddha , not proved yet, and the main inspiration for making Buddhist statue were actually the Buddhist paintings...and yes you can surely see some Greek influence in the statue of Buddha made by Greek settlers of India but no influence in statues made by Indians....btw yes Ashoka must have given this duty to the Indo-Greeks to spread Buddhism to central and middle east Asia but once again Bodhidharma was a Pallava king of South India....it is a said that he learnt Kalaripayattu from Kerela and then went to China to spread Buddhism where he gave Kunfu...

[@jyotirmayamohanty5723]

The Hindi/Sanskrit Word केंद्र has been borrowed from Greek word : Kentrum, or so in English you say Center.

[@KingsandGenerals]

One of us placed Parthia in the wrong location. I hope that it is you, but knowing my tendency for getting lost even around my own street, it was probably me. :-)

[@ftrgs7720]

i think parthia is a bit more north-west

[@robinchandler4870]

Kings and Generals did you correct it?

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

Kings and Generals Parthia proper is in Central Asia a region also known as "Khorasan" (or Chorasmia in Latin) but they conquered the whole Iranian plateau, thus the whole region controlled by them was known as "Parthia" by the Romans... I also posted this in your channel :)

[@zainmakavelli]

Kings and Generals also let’s stop using the word India because India didn’t exist before 1947.

[@decades1912]

@@zainmakavelli Should we call it the Sub-Continent? Or Sindhu because that's a word that was used in the Vedic period that eventually became the word India. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnOsk5miicuro5o

[@NIDELLANEUM]

Excellent video about such an interesting topic. The Graeco-Bactrian kingdom's trades with India and China also meant it got to influence elements of their cultures, which went on to be part of Korean, Japanese and South-East Asian cultures as well. This kingdom is barely talked about, but thanks to it we have renmants of Hellenism across places so far away they probably haven't even heard about Greece or Alexander the Great.

[@HamzaPKR]

I would say the last vestige of Hellenism would be the Hellenic people of Gandhara. You touched on them as the rulers of the Indo-Greek kingdom but without expanding upon them. Strato III ruled the Gandhara (northern Pakistan) region until after Jesus i.e. in the AD era. They splintered from the Greco-Bactrians as Parthian dominance was established over Afghanistan, but the Greeks around the Indus held their ground for longer.

[@ericcloud1023]

Oh wow that's another kingdom I need to look up, I didn't know a splinter state existed in N. Pakistan

[@AK-cf6sj]

And they made some kickass arts too. One of the greateast West meets East story.

[@mrzed2349]

Basically the Greeks sprayed their seed pretty much all over the known world back then.

[@buenaventuralosgrandes9266]

i mean sparta and athens individually are really a great nation state/kingdom. when macedonia unite them all with great (military) leader, or we should say a genius, put in charge then this is the result.

[@OmegaTrooper]

Biggest money shot on world history

[@salabitante7798]

Thats the Problem & Look who they Mated with!

[@ImperialDiecast]

@Costas Costas then came the mongolians

[@icedtrs8455]

Wtf

[@apolloniangerm]

I’m really glad I found your channel! You cover some fascinating subjects that often get ignored, so thank you for that!

[@johnvictorengland7703]

Eyyy I like YOUR channel. Been following it for more than a year now. Fancy seeing you here!

[@richardglady3009]

A wonderful overview of Bactria. Thank you.

[@goldenmemes51]

beauitful! im am of punjabi sikh descent and on my dna test i got alot of HIGH percentage of greek in there.. makes sense alot of people always think my dad is greek cause of the forehead and big eyes

[@goldenmemes51]

ever moore Both are beautiful people and cultures I will visit both countries soon Are you from Skopje?

[@nikd545]

Dear ever moore, MAcedonians were, are and will be Greeks. So study history 1st please before opening your mouth and tell bullshit.

[@nikd545]

Go to a shrink you studied. studied my ass. Thousands of years sources, sceintific research, historians prove the liar you are. Also piece of shit, Greece is a democratic country member of the EU who respects every ones rights. You should look and speak better about us because we are the only ones that can be your friends. Also we are not used as pawns from Turks as you.

[@Ais-sb2wg]

ever moore- Yes they were Macedonians and *ancient Macedonians were one of the many Hellenic tribes*

[@goldenmemes51]

Aᴛʜᴇɴᴀïs Yes !! I as a outsider to this issue believe beautiful Macedonian were a hellenic tribe

[@Theodoros_Kolokotronis]

Great content as always ! Two monumental works regarding the legacy of the Ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedonia are: “The Rise of the Greeks” of Michael Grant and “Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography” of Peter Green. Truly masterpieces.

[@historywithhilbert]

Yeeessss dat boi is finally back and as good as always ;)

[@Neenerella333]

Hey Hilbert. How are ya now!

[@aalexander928]

This is another of your excellent videos that I just viewed for the first time. Could I please ask you to put the volume up on your videos - it can never be too loud. Thank you.

[@Hypn0sef]

How does this channel not have more views? A+ videos

[@AICbrazilianfan]

Just pointing out for some Indians, Afghans, Pakistanis: Greeks are not mostly blue-eyed or blonde (these are Northern European traits, not Southern European), so if you're blonde or have blue eyes it's not because of the Greeks and Indo-Greeks. A minority of blonde and light eyed people obviously exist in Greece, but the average Greek is dark haired, dark eyed and has white to olive skin. I'm saying this because I'm mostly of Italian and Greek descent and I'm tired of hearing this bullshit about blonde Greeks being the responsible for light traits in these regions, it's simply not true.

[@TheRealJawnz]

Many south Europeans during antiquity were however noted for having blue eyes and blonde hair. Alexander the Great was blonde for example.

[@AICbrazilianfan]

Southern Europeans in the past were almost the same as today. If anything we became lighter with all these invasions from the North (Germanics in Italy and Slavs in Greece). Ancient Greeks got tested and scored similarly to modern Cretans.

[@sigmaalpha8698]

Frater Taciturnus Actually, blonde Greeks are descendants of Dorian Greeks. The Dorian Greeks (Macedonians, Molossians/Epirotes, and Lacedaemonians) were fair haired, while the Athenian/Ionian, Mycenaean and Minoan Greeks were dark haired and olive skinned.

[@emmanouilachladiotis5272]

Greeks are white of South Europe. So yes you have blue eyes too. They are not all like me , dark hair and dark eyes, skin in the winter whiter but once the sun shines I get a darker skin. I have in my family who are much more white and leave in Greece and also have blue eyes and blond hair. And in the bible I think it also says that the Greek tribe belongs with the white race. As is Europe

[@seethrough_treeshrew]

I have honestly only come across this notion when talking to European ethno-nationalists.

[@kaloarepo288]

Indo-Greek kings were often devout Buddhists and were responsible for sponsoring Buddhist missionary activities including to Sri-Lanka.

[@savioblanc]

Are you sure about Sri Lanka? I believe they helped spread it throughout Central Asia, with Sri Lanka being targeted more by Emperor Ashoka and his successors

[@kaloarepo288]

Savioblanc -there are accounts in Sri Lankan historical epics in Pali language(The Mahavamsa) that tell of the Yona or Greeks sending monks and misionaries to Sri Lanka.The key ruler is Menander who was a Greek king who ruled in the Punjab who features in a buddhist text called "The questions of King Milinda(Menander)If you look up the name Mahadharmaraksita in Wikipedia it is related that this Greek Buddhist monk went to Sri Lanka with 30 thousand monks to dedicate a stupa(Shrine)That monk converted another key Buddhist monk called Nagasena who was responsible for converting King Menander as described in the book"Questions of king Menander" Of course the reliability of a lot of these stories is hotly contested by scholars and you are correct that Ashoka was the key monarch in the propagation of Buddhism but a lot of the spadework might have been done by previous kings especially Greek ones.There is also a connection here with the spread of Buddhism to Thailand and Burma.(The Emerald Buddha statue) I often wonder why Buddhism didn't spread westwards too as Ashoka sent messages to key Greek kings in the west inviting them to embrace Buddhism but the religion never seems to have gained any traction in the western Greek world or in the Roman empire -perhaps the Greco-Roman Olympian religion and philosophies were too strong.

[@ritikshaw5868]

Small correction. Ashoka was no king. He was the Emperor.

[@kaloarepo288]

Sometimes the difference between a king and an emperor is blurred in the English language -I think the Indian word for emperor would be Maharajah if I am not mistaken means "Great King."? Menander was just a king -I don't think the ancient Greeks had a word for "emperor" it was a Roman concept which evolved from the title Imperator which originally just meant commander.The British despite their huge empire only had a king until queen Victoria who was given title of empress by Disraeli the PM but this was only in relation to India.

[@kaloarepo288]

Cegesh -these stories are always exaggerated -it's called hagiography -for a similar exaggeration in western stories about saints -look at the legend of St Ursual and the 10 thousand virgins.

[@steveclark5357]

this was exceptional

[@dlteodorian]

great video cheers from Greece, I would love to travel and explore these areas but really nowadays seems pretty dangerous

[@jeck988]

Δαγών Cult keep a sarrisa handy lol a hoplon will help aswell

[@basitaman435]

don't be scared you are descendant of mighty warriors

[@jeck988]

Basit Aman he's a Greek, I'm a celt, what are you?

[@basitaman435]

i am Indo- Iranian live in Pakistan

[@jeck988]

Basit Aman your own ancestors were as well then, they’d have to be lol

[@blonded0532]

Sometimes I wonder how history would have plaid out if the indo-Greek kingdom eventually conquered the entire sub continent, and therefore everyone interacting with India afterwords would be interacting with a people who’s culture was heavily rooted in both Greek and native Indian cultures. Of course that empire probably wouldn’t last long without shattering, but if it existed for long enough, the culture would probably stick with the following smaller states left after the shattering. Would the area still be colonized by European powers, or would they see it as too European and technology advanced to colonize that easily?

[@steveclark5357]

thank you for the best way of explaining history , flat out, top of the game, thank you

[@richardglady3009]

Thank you for telling this story.

[@leesenger3094]

Fascinating as always! Gratitude!

[@whocares941]

I love your channel so much!

[@georgethanos7700]

Excellent! Keep up the good work!

[@Kristaliorn]

I wanted history on Bactria and I was not dissapointed! Now to play as them in Imperator Rome!

[@jameskelman9856]

Nicely done , Thanks !

[@BListHistory]

awesome stuff, man!

[@khurrammazharamir1151]

Hey! (while looking at the ancient map) I can see my village from here anyways greetings from Pakistan I was always fascinated by the fact the Greeks ruled part of the subcontinent so cheers from a fellow ancient Bactrian :D

[@khurrammazharamir1151]

@chachi mogo Hi there thanks for the info but I disagree there are Greco-Bactrian relics recovered and Archeologist sites that can be found in Pakistan(I recommended looking up ancient city of Sirkap) a simple google search should do it. I also come from is north of Pakistan we existed as people who settled here for hundreds of years even before the mughals but our culture and identity is unique we don't share a common language or customs with rest of the subcontinent we also look different from an average south asian having said that I always wondered that we actually came from somewhere else so its possible that my people are actually Greco-Bactrian nevertheless only genetic tests can verfiy that.

[@khurrammazharamir1151]

@chachi mogoWell we never wanted to be part of Afghanistan we were a princely state prior to the partition and were used to be part of Sikh Empire ruled by Maharaja Ranjit Singh but we didn't enjoy his rule he was ruthless in his dealing with our people so we sided with the British in order to gain our autonomy. As for Pakistan it was the decision of our elders based on many factors we knew we will become a mess like Kashmir had to choose sides therefore the most logical was Pakistan due to some similarities religion for example. It is the decision we don't regret as we are allowed to practice our rituals traditions and our religion it is not unfortunate but wise that we ended with Pakistan. As far as the Partition go I am aware of many political opinions surrounds it as the saying goes "Old nations die new are born" yes its brutal natural of order of things we humans will continue to make it happen I can't predict the future but more nations will be formed there are alot of examples Kosovo and other nations that formed once Yugoslavia, Kazkahstan and other former Soviet states. I assume that you are Indian with all due respect you have the wrong idea of Pakistan its is not a nation which was forced upon us rather it was a nation we and other group of people chose to built before the partition based on negotiations with the British and other respected parties. Yes it may have not been a successful attempt but we stand by it as our chosen leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah would put it "make with what you have" and we did. I respect your difference in opinion but I think we both can agree it is not something we should fight on about as it is pointless as it can get. Anyways It has been a great conversation farewell.

[@maywandkhil6076]

Afghanistan and British India used to have border with each other...Pakistan is all games of capitalists how wants to have some sort of instability in that region (like Israel and Palestine). Educate yourself about Durand Line:) also Bactria is located in Afghanistan and now it's called Balkh, we have a city called Ay Khanum which used to be a big strategical city to the ancient Greeks...sooo idk why and how are u trying to squeeze in Pakistan in this convo lol yall country younger then my granddad first car hahah

[@quiasnoorzad]

@@maywandkhil6076 what is Durand line??

[@WiseSilverWolf]

Where do you get all these cool paintings of the ancient world? it would be awesome to have some paintings in picture frames around my house.

[@Neenerella333]

The one of Alexander was a mosaic. If you search for it that way,I believe you will find a lot of printed versions available. Good luck.

[@voidgeometry794]

You deserve more thumbs up!!!

[@kimmcroberts9765]

Would love some examples of greek culural remnants is afganistan. Really interesting episode. I am working thru them all,very grateful.

[@factorygirl2010]

Kim Mcroberts hey im Afghan Pachtun and today’s Pashtuns men wear pakol which is from Sikander (Alexander)

[@factorygirl2010]

Don’t have any proof but Afghanistan National Dance called Attan could be from Athena. Form of whorship.Later it was 'Refomulated' into a Monothestic dance hence the name change from Athena to Attan.

[@wankawanka3053]

Some hats are actually the ones used by Alexander's army

[@MSRomsa]

Interesting enough, Alexander decided to build cities in the area because there were already small Greek settlements all over the area from Persian deportation of Greek prisoners to the area for a long while before Alexander.

[@skylinelover9276]

Persian Gulag haha.

[@khushk]

Bactria or bactrian were in north afghanistan. The tajiks which are an indo european( Iranic ) people are direct descendent of bactrians and sogdians ( google it ) I don't know why everybody is talking about india...

[@نادرالیراحمان]

@Toonimation They are Iranic, not "Iranian." Iranian refers to a citizen of Iran, which these people were not.

[@نادرالیراحمان]

@chachi mogo You have a point, although I disagree that all 1.3 billion Indians are trolls.

[@sahildabral9548]

We Indians are not some Bactrian mllecha.

[@Soeales]

I think there is quite a bit of bias in this video. Where did you get your source that Alexander founded "hundreds" of cities in Afghanistan? He "founded" a few cities and these have already been proven to have existed before him. Remember Bactria was already a rich satrap of the Achaemenids with many great cities before the Greeks. What people forget is just how much native Bactrian culture was prevalent in this kingdom. It was a BLEND of cultures. Rarely do we see people creating videos about native Bactrian culture - it is overshadowed by the immense bias for Greek culture. And don't get me wrong, the Hellenic contribution to human progress is invaluable, but it has lead us to completely ignore the fascinating cultures of the region. As an Afghan, I'm learning to understand both perspectives.

[@ds4629]

very nice video. Just try to use images that belong to the topic you are speaking about please :)

[@albertflorian9491]

There is something I would like to know: How could Alexander secure all these cities he founded without leaving too much soldiers there und thus loosing his army? I mean they would have needed something like a police, an administration, and so on. Was there a wave of greek immigration just immediately after his conquests?

[@luissalcedo6493]

Yes. Greece was very overpopulated.

[@art.f7973]

Actually not only greek a lot of european either

[@harshalpatil1209]

The conquered Persians did the job themselves. The governor of Bactria had betrayed Darius II by presenting his head to Alexander. His daughter married Alexander. Alexander also marries the daughter of Darius II. This way he wasn't looked upon as an complete outsider.

[@albertflorian9491]

@@harshalpatil1209 Thank you very much!

[@harristheodosis5204]

Yes ,Greek soldiers were coming to the east and others went back to retire

[@CameronAB122]

I’d like a Total War game with more of India. Playing as Bactria with Parthia and the Seleucids in the West and the Maurya Empire in the East would be fun!

[@JusticeforHindus]

Cameron Booth yes!

[@Chevguy93]

Only one that has India is Empire Total War.. And that game is shit, even with Darthmod. I've tried to like it so many times, but I can't.

[@MorphingReality]

Well done :)

[@Stuart36]

I really enjoyed that

[@saeedmodanlou1874]

Hellenism in Greece was diminished after Pirhus last defeat from Romans. But Eastern Hellenism flourished in Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iranian plateau for at list a millennium.

[@wankawanka3053]

Hellenism was diminished after the last macedonian war but it didn't really disappear thanks to Alexander's conquest it remained there and influenced the eastern part of the roman empire

[@saeedmodanlou1874]

​@@wankawanka3053 As a matter of fact a large Greek community was existing in Fergana valley east of Uzbikistan prior to Alexander's conquest. They were Ionian unhappy and protesting democrats that were exiled to the region by Darius I and his son xerxes more than a century and a half ago. They got totaly mixed with Scythian people of central Asia (sogdiana) and Aryan's of Bacteria ( Balkh). Alexanders conquest of the region Initiated a Greko- Scythian government that faught against seleucid for sovereignty. Menander I was the most famous ruler of them. They were the people who established the great Silk road with chines Han Dynasty. They were the people who spread a top hellenistic culture with it's eastern charasteristic that lasted for more than a melinium in Persia, Mesopotamia, central Asia and Bacteria (Afghanistan). City of Samarghand was a center of Greek academy for centuries. Even 350 years of Islamic era of Abbasid rulers in Persia the entire region enjoyed a great Hellenistic culture.

[@maxleuschner8663]

According to Craig Benjamin the chinese han did actually not start trading with the greco-bactrians. They started trading with the „west“ after zhang quian discovered cities beyond the ferghana valley during the second century bc. During that time the yuezhi (a nomadic, which invaded from the tarim basin) invaded greco-bactria, which concluded in the collapse of the empire. After several diplomatic conquests for the next 100 to 200 years, the han started their trading network by trading with the equally unknown yet interesting kingdom of kushana (a successor of the greco bactrians, which was established by the before mentioned yuezhi, who actually took over much of Greek culture, resulting in a fascinating synchretic culture).

[@Nperez1986]

Main reason the US "lost" in Afghanistan...it didnt lose against the Taliban...it was fighting the descendants of the Greco-Roman Bactrian kingdom. Alexander the Greats successor armies and kingdoms defeated essentially a post couple thousand year Germanic empire from the west

[@AniketDusane-h3q]

Your loser self claimed great king Alexander can't cross Indus river and Defeated by the Mighty Chandragupta Maurya and his small vessel state under Mighty king Porus.

[@guspeniche]

Could you make a video of all the cities that alexander founded?

[@gelisgeo1309]

Thank for the truth : Macedonia was Greek kingdom and is region of modern Greece ...the slavic nation which try to stolen this name (FYROM) is absolutely fake

[@giorgo1990ify]

Και εμείς τάχα Μακεδόνες που ? Ορθόδοξη κοινωνία με ρίζες απ τους εβραίους και μια ψευτο Δημοκρατία απ τους Αθηναίους Οι Μακεδόνες θα τοχαν λήξει το πρόβλημα ... αλλά οι Έλληνες μια ζωή Έλληνες πολεμούσε γι'αυτό άσε φίλε δεν έχουμε μέλλον

[@نادرالیراحمان]

Just like India traditionally was a name for a region in eastern Pakistan. The modern country known as "India" technically stole the name as well. Even Hindustan ("Indus land") referred to today's Sindh and Punjab.

[@نادرالیراحمان]

As was the case with India. The original India was inside modern Pakistan and not the country east of it that later took up the name.

[@liagoutas]

@sciphynuts Please explain to the orld ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ,the star emblem of Pella/Vergina, the origins of Olympiad(mother of Alexander), what language did Aristotle tutor Alexander and please give me some evidence about Skopjie/Vardaskan not being Bulgarian Slavs.

[@khanimran1238]

India is has always been a mysterious place that's why so many tribes from the known world came here good to see more history of India which not shown in text books history keep it up good job I'm turko Mongol descended of india

[@JusticeforHindus]

YourWife'sBoyfriend pakistan was created in 1947. india became a democracy in 1947. what Imran means is this sub continent (present day India) and the empires that ruled it. :)

[@otomackena7610]

YourWife'sBoyfriend do you know how stupid you sound lol? the subcontinent was always called India read a fucking history book Look at Megasthenes(Greek ambassador to India) account ,Chinese monks like Faxian, Xuanzang to India ,Ibn Battuta's account of India they all call the subcontinent a derivative of the name 'India',its been called Hind,Hodu, Indoi, Hindustan,Bhartha ,Indike ,Jambudvipa, Tianzhu

[@otomackena7610]

YourWife'sBoyfriend lol how stupid are you? you overlooked rest of it and netpicking now? dumbass you think i dont know that? Hind came from Sindh (as in Indus river) it was used to represent the entire subcontinent the reason being the passage to India was only through Indus hence the name Sindh /Hind /Indoi /Indike etc.. Didn't i mentioned the historical account go read it. it explain what India was for eg Al Biruni 1020 "Hind is surrounded on the East by Chín and Máchín, on the West by Kábul and on the South by the Sea." do you want me to list other historical accounts? which explains what India was? here is one more, Arthashasthra 'This (Brahmaputra) is the eastern boundary of Jambudvipa, its western boundary being the mouths of the Indus and its southern boundary being the Indian Ocean' want more? how about Herodtus? strabo? no? you are embarassing yourself .

[@otomackena7610]

YourWife'sBoyfriend haha you Islamic cuckhold will claim everything its nothing new .LOL " Indians have an obsession with trying to claim us because you’re jealous of us." in what fucking way ?lol .you people are some of the most uncivilised people .Look at your country its fucking mess. Who the fuck would claim you people most i can think of is people distancing themselves from you people nobody wants to associate with you hence everyone rejects you .No one in their right mind wants to associate themselves ith you get it through you thick skull dumbass.

[@Namburiadityasairam2605]

YourWife'sBoyfriend In another dozen years you Pakistanis will run to India claiming you all are Indians lol Allah won't save you then

[@ganeshraja5672]

please create videos on Indian history ! thank you...

[@HistoryTime]

Yes! In time :) it will require me to read a lot of books first though but I am fully planning on it ... though Indus Valley civilisation will be covered fairly soon.

[@نادرالیراحمان]

@@HistoryTime Which is part of Pakistan's history. Like the FYROM, the country "India" took the name from the historical India.

[@looolllll6378]

@@نادرالیراحمان Hahaha Pakistan is a country based on religion. It has nothing to do with indus civilization except owning its area.😂 Accept it you guys are the real FYROM who took the land of ancient india. You should be grateful that we gave it to you. 😂

[@labanasikhfedration]

Yavana/Yona/Lonia are officially Lavana/Lona/Lonia, who are known as ancient salt merchant of india in hinduism as well as in sikhism, they have found all over the world, egypt 🇪🇬 has 30% of Lavana population in there, there is some place in ciaro called “ Darb-Al-Labana “, Even egypt 🇪🇬 capital is Tanta/Tanda , ciaro. Tanda is lavanki language word which is used for Trader caravans. and one more thing these all lavana are habitat in india on ancient sea trade routes and ancient silk/salt routes as well.

[@jamescollins4500]

I presume that this is the background to Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King"? I apologize I have not read the book only saw the movie. Keep up the good work.

[@apareek96]

Yes.. movie was very good.

[@pakistanzucks]

Explains all the white or caucasian looking people in Afghanistan

[@joimy95]

No. Those white looking people are from other tribes. When greeks came they already looked like that.

[@WoodsLesnik]

Those would be the descendants of Saka people, Greeks look Mediterranean but Saka people would commonly have lighter hair and eyes.

[@Lycurgus1982]

The geographical dispositions presented in this video seem a little inaccurate. The two emerging powers in the Eastern part of the Seleucid Empire were considered the upper satraps and did not expand until some time after Antiochus III.

[@sherkhan2416]

Could you do a video about Pashtuns of Afghanistan and Pakistan very little is know about their past plus what is that background music

[@shamskhilji885]

@Leo khatana kushans were descended from saka/Scythians and saka was tribe of Pashtons and still saka tribes in Pashtons and all Aryans were descended from pashtons

[@نادرالیراحمان]

A lot is known about them. They are an Eastern Iranic peoples.

[@moltisanti745]

Pashtuns are just indian looking ppl that’s all you gotta know bro

[@quiasnoorzad]

@@moltisanti745 they’re not Indian you idiot

[@Alakhana]

@@shamskhilji885 Kushans were descendants of Yuezhi not Saka and Saka were not a Pashtun tribe. Pashtuns were living in the Suleiman mountains not in the Steppe where the Sakas lived. There is only one subtribe among Pashtuns that has the name “Saka” in it (Sakazai).

[@jif.6821]

I thought the "P" in Ptolemy was silent. Have I been pronouncing it wrong for 50 + years?

[@Novusod]

The "P" is mostly silent.

[@HistoryTime]

The P is silent :) I don't really have anyone to talk history with anymore since I graduated so my pronunciations can be a little rusty :)

[@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt]

I think in Ancient Greek like modern Greek is not

[@rolandsquire6555]

Ptolemy would definitively have pronounced the P in his name, but in modern English it is generally silent. Just like Caesar would have pronounced his name "Kaisar", but we pronounce it "See-zer".

[@andrewforte3852]

You can use or not use the P.

[@pumpkinpuncher5524]

Where did you find the art for Diodotus I and II?

[@factorygirl2010]

The Pashtuns who speak an eastern Iranian language are the ancestors of these soldiers. Don’t have any proof but Afghanistan National Dance called Attan could be from Athena. Form of whorship.Later it was 'Refomulated' into a Monothestic dance hence the name change from Athena to Attan. In the village of my parents some people used to speak a Greek dialect back in the day.She heard these stories from her parents < => my grandparents & they from...etc. Diodotus @ 3:10 Looks like textbook Afghan Pashtun

[@experimentb6449]

The title made no sense to me until I realized it said Bactria instead of bacteria

[@ΝΙΚΟΣΒΟΓΙΑΤΖΑΚΗΣ]

As a Greek in our history Alexander was the 3rd to go to India dionysos Hercules and Alexander the area of Afghanistan was a place of exile from. The Jewish influenced Persia Esther that is why the area had many Greeks. Let's not forget that Greek population at the time included today turkey Albania Italy up to Rome France the Mediterranean c oast Egypt Lebanon Israel Spain Crete Cyprus we are talking at 250000000 million people

[@rise4justice826]

Now it makes sense, modern day Afghans or Pashtun people are decendants of Greeks that mixed with the local population. Wow amazing that explains my Caucasian features and all the light skin people of Afghanistan that have blue eyes etc

[@DigoronKavkaz]

Rise4justice Pashtuns are an Aryan people. So those features are also linked to that too

[@aantony2001]

Most Greeks don't have blue eyes.

[@friedrichhayek8628]

aantony2001 Yes but they are Caucasians

[@aantony2001]

There are no Caucasians, it's an a outdated concept. I remember in an extra history episode people in the comments thought it was weird that Ancient Greeks were drawn with darker skin than Iranians, but it's very possible they were indeed darker, and are too today to some extent.

[@friedrichhayek8628]

aantony2001 I don't think that's an outdate issue Caucasian mean the white skin and not the genetic origins of the people (from Caucasus) and contains many variations from Nordic type to Mediterranean , it's a heterogeneous category based in the morphology of white skin and nothing more. Greeks came from a place close to Iran so it's very possible that they were similar with Persians but I can't say that they were darker or lighter and of course the weren't coloured or black like the afrocentric false view. Of course I respect black people and I am not racist, i wrote just my opinion about history. All humans from Maori and aborigines to nords and Japanese have the same origins back to thousand years ago, all citizens of this world.

[@alexabood2516]

Great video on a criminally neglected topic. But FYI the “P” in “Ptolemy” is silent

[@thesquire6352]

currently playing as bactria on rome 2 total war.

[@Byronic_Man]

Please make a video about Mittani Empire.

[@marbet2395]

Eutidemus I. Maybee I'm wrong, but it seems a roman centurion in the picture

[@dionisiodussart5629]

Bactria and neighbouring Margiana are where was the Oxus Civilization, a non IE urban place that was destroyed by Andronovans ("indo-iranians") in 1700 BC. They became there the Indo-Aryans. At the same place, later, was written the Avesta.

[@ChachiMogo]

In Bactria it was the Greco-Bactrians who ruled the land. Indo-Greeks ruled northern pakistan/India.

[@MichaelGalanopoulos]

Great vid-but Antioch was in southeastern Turkey, not south central as stated

[@HistoryTime]

Actually it is south-central. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antakya# There's a nice map on here.

[@deliriumbee4678]

Turkey didnt even exist then u doofus

[@ht7461]

Very good, well done! This is great info and could be some of the missing links how Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma) influence other religions around the world for over 2,000 years or more... Check out the Gospel of Thomas and others. Lord Jesus Christ said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. Don't lie, and don't do what you hate, because all things are disclosed before heaven. After all, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed. I have cast fire upon the world, and look, I'm guarding it until it blazes. This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive. When you are in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do..." Discovery near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, December 1945 an excellent clue... And, later several rise and fall of empires... Just my opinion!

[@marbet2395]

Very good. But you speak only about the first part of the reign. And the rest? Menandro and the others? What about the falling of Ai-Kanum and the rest?

[@HistoryTime]

Mostly focused on Diodotus on this one. Going to do another one or two about the Greco-Bactrians/Indo-Greeks

[@marbet2395]

History Time thanks

[@yusa9429]

Why nobody talks about before Alexander bactria.. It was already hellenized Alex hated them

[@Rajj854]

is it correct to pronounce Seleucus with the soft 'c' rather than the hard 'k'

[@nikhiljoshiPi]

Raj Ray exactly same question. We were taught in school to pronounce it as selukas.

[@DrFroyd123]

We modern greeks pronounce it selefkos

[@Rajj854]

Vasilis Tsitsos Thanks.

[@sto_karfi842]

In ancient time should sound like Selukos with the u sounding like in m->u

[@Lycurgus1982]

If you really want to be accurate, you can pronounce the Greek version. Sel-lay-oo-kos or Seleukos.

[@googlechromee6950]

Now those people are called hazara the thousandners

[@atticus6572]

Ptolemaic pronounced incorrectly.

[@wales2815]

Alexander must have known about the Afghan oil Edit: in case it isn't obvious, this is a joke. I don't actually believe that there is anything resembling the " juice America would go to war over" in Afghanistan.

[@art.f7973]

At the time of alexsander oil was not so important greece and the meditteranean have a lot plus many minerals thats why destroyed greece

[@Jattmafia313]

There’s no oil in Afghanistan lol

[@jr8260]

@@Jattmafia313 but there is ten trillion in rare earth minerals!

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

5:3 Parthia was mor to the east... near east was for Rome...

[@Lycurgus1982]

Parthia, in the beginning, was widely considered an upper satrapy of the Seleucid Empire and up until the time after Aniochus III, was confined in the Southeastern part of the Caspian Sea.

[@drmohdashrafmatt5139]

Include Kashmir where Solomon Moses Jesus came

[@Confucius_76]

The P is Ptolemy is silent

[@Keyhan-c8c]

Parthia (Perthowan) " sun light people" is the later (khuraswan) streching from south east coasts of caspian sea, south of turkmenistan to afghanistan, central Iran called Spahan, the map shows south caspia as bakhtra, capital was located at methrapolis in Nisa ,in your map is highlighted as bakhtra which is not correct. plz correct it.

[@NinjaSushi2]

The only thing that bothers me about these videos is how you mispronounce many things and that urks me. Other than that, great videos.

[@نادرالیراحمان]

It was also during this time that the name "India" came into existence as a result of Greek conquest of the Indus Valley. Later it became a word for the entire South Asia for the Europeans, but the name is rooted in the Indus river.

[@russellhogben6628]

Did I hear P-tolomy? Surely the p is silent.

[@Uriel333]

no it's not (in greek)

[@solaurelian7638]

Bactrian kingdom direct consequence from Alexanders succesful incursions into India. Very fascinating.

[@naumaniqbal393]

How come modern day Pakistani and Northern Indian don’t carry any Macedonian/Greek dna?

[@art.f7973]

Depend who you mean for greek because many people goes around to said are greeks and many people put greek flag in their ships xd

[@art.f7973]

Because the barbars went to mix with locals when they went before other Europeans and the rest who went there they spread a culture not a dna and since they put Greece in Europe everyone went around to said is from greek heritage xd

[@richardiv385]

Why are there so few subs?

[@HistoryTime]

You can tell your friends if you like ;) I'm happy to have broken 1,000 to be honest :) Still relatively new to this.

[@apudharald2435]

History Time you'll be going the same way as Isaac Arthur and Militaryhistoryvisualised. Even joined ya at more or less the same point, in the early thousands. You have some great stuff.

[@vietashroffoliver2521]

I wish historians (and others) would stop calling war mongers "the great". Why not Alexander the hawk, or Napoleon the militarist?

[@albertpuig6273]

Napoleon is not called anything, it's just Napoleon...

[@mitkodimitrov8396]

by dna bulgarian and bactria are not different are where bulgarians fled to europe

[@nicksofialakis1448]

Hmm. The double hump camels are from modern Afghanistan or Bactria???

[@Lycurgus1982]

Bactria is a part of Afghanistan and evidently the two hump camel originated from it.

[@factorygirl2010]

The Pashtuns who speak an eastern Iranian language are the ancestors of these soldiers.The Afghan national dance today known as Attan is actually a dance for Atthena.In the village of my parents some people used to speak a Greek dialect back in the day.She heard these stories from her parents < => my grandparents & they from...etc. Diodotus @ 3:10 Looks like textbook Afghan Pashtun

[@pakistanzucks]

Pashtuns are heavily mixed with Greeks

[@zoesdada8923]

The p is silent

[@khushk]

Bactrian and sogdian are called tajiks today Which lives i in tajikistan, afghanistan and uzbekistans. Tajiks are the direct descendents of bactrians og sogdian. Google it!

[@WTFisDrifting]

khushk nope those Turks weren’t there at the time

[@moltisanti745]

@@WTFisDrifting just google it, google Bactrians and who the descendants are you dumb fuck.

[@JizzMasterTheZeroth]

The P in Ptolemy is silent.

[@Uriel333]

no it's not (in greek)

[@michaelparasidis3697]

ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΣ in Latin letters PTOLEMEOS, the Π is there for a reason :)

[@arianrezaie4729]

But the Greek culture dident survive the sassanians

[@deankruse2891]

In pockets. Even some of the clothes worn by rural people including the Taliban are throw backs to the Hellenic period.

[@swaythegod5812]

There influence was infinite tho

[@satsingh1985]

Do all Brits pronounce the P in Ptolemy? super annoying

[@persianfantasy2070]

:)

[@HVLLOW99]

The Acheimenid Empire was bigger than Alexandros III's. Alexander had the 2nd largest empire to date.

[@Tsotsis1]

alexander had greece though

[@deankruse2891]

But the acheimenid’d never conquered Greece, Phillip and Alexander did. Also, the Roman Empire was larger than both and the mongols larger still

[@AniketDusane-h3q]

​@@deankruse2891Then you Don't know about Greatest Indian King Vikramaditya he have CONQURED entire Asia, russia from south korea in east to Turkey in west, on account whom indian calender was dated way before 1BC. Your loser Alxender couldn't cross Indus river and got defeated by mighty mauryan kingdom and got tragic death in sadness to not able to conquer india. India was dream of many but no one till now able to conquer our culture, our tradition and even land. Though it was ruled by British or Mongols but couldn't rule on people's mind. We are most independent community throughout the history and never made slave to anyone.

[@genghisgfunk]

Patolemy ..lol

[@decades1912]

First?

[@sto_karfi842]

Wherever you see comments with political propaganda, remember that you can always dislike in comments too.😊

[@mitkodimitrov8396]

coz are to many mismatches in bulgarian history but we wont to know true :)

[@mitkodimitrov8396]

or we are scythians (bulgarians) coz we are not by dna mongols like all talking

[@collin-theonlyandone2299]

we wuz scythians n shiet. No you are slavs lol, shut up

[@digital2027]

Macedonians were not Greek.

[@wankawanka3053]

There is a reason they are called greco Bactrians and not macedo bactrians 😚😚😚

[@aarengraves9962]

Macedonias were Greeks. Prussians were Germans Romans were Italians

[@kosmasgvl1615]

You are Bulgarian and you will remain slav.. Macedonians were greek tribe

[@nikephorosphocas6065]

@@aarengraves9962 yes of course. Some non Greeks spread the Greek language as far as Bactria and made it the lingua franca over the following centuries. Even if we accepted that there was a small possibility that they were not Greeks , their actions show that they wanted to be Greeks and they behaved like Greeks, so please shut up your mouth and don’t speak on their behalf . Their actions speak up .

[@besmiraliaj6537]

Alexander was Illyrian Greek's where u Egypt in this time .

[@deankruse2891]

Wtf are you on about. Did the Illyrians build the Parthenon? How about the Minoans, were they Illyrian too?

[@wankawanka3053]

Albanian coping 🤣🤣🤣

[@ggmu5579]

Hahaha Bactria was a first Bulgarian country.The other name if the country was BALHARA.In Indian language balhar mean bulgar.The true origin of Greek is Ethiopians.They came from Ethiopia to the Balkan Peninsula.😉

[@deankruse2891]

Wtf