Greeks lived in Ancient India... #shorts #history #ancientgreece #india

Did you know that Ancient Greeks lived in Ancient India? They settled the area during, and after Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world, they soon adopted parts of the native culture, and made their own impact on the region...

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[nerf]

ancient Pakistan ? My grandpa is older than Pakistan.

[walkingtree]

There's a village in India who say that they are direct descendants of the Greek soldiers that fought with Alexander.
They don't allow foreigners in their village.
They actually do have phenotypic characters to that of an European like blue eyes

[tehseenarab]

Bro Pakistan was never ancient. It was only formed in 1947

[amanverma]

Brother you forgot our emperor chandragupta married Greek princess helena after defeating selucus nicator

[ReactReact-ntpy]

You forget that,

pushyamitra shunga from shunga dynasty who killed last mauryan ruler also destroy mauryan empire and kharavela from magmahans dynasty defeat indo - Greeks very badly

[hirenahir]

Love Greeks from india we have complex relations but we love greeks

[anuacharya]

When Alexander left india after his defeat some of his soldiers formed a small kingdom in Pakistan n they adopted Buddhism mixing their culture

[abhiraajsingh]

Alexander never won any war in india 😂😂😂
Greeks definitely have migrated from ancient India to Greece

[sanjivkhare]

For those who have never being exposed to any evidences or any other sources of history around this region, you must know about Indian Empire of that time was Mauryan empire with it king Chandragupta I, who defeated Seleucus I Nicator(one of the four strongest army generals and successors of Alaxander the great). After getting defeated, Seleucus offered his daughter to Chandragupta I (Mauryan king) in exchange of his life (because nobody, ever in the history, offered their daughter to be stuffed by someones muscular staff without a defeat). If you do a better research on both side texts and scripts and connect the dots, you will come to know that why would an narcissistic conqueror, like Alaxander the great, would return back to his roots right before reaching the goal of his life??? because of some people saying no to his will??? or because he was defeated before even reaching the gates?? The Indian Empire was far beyond his imagination to ever win. He knew he will be slaughtered even before crossing Indus river. The Historians made sure that Europe is projected as the undefeated when writing the history. which is why they don't say anything clear about it or any part of history where they got defeated.

[KrishnaDhobale]

1st emperor of India Chandragupta Maurya was married to Greek princess Helena, the daughter of Selucus Nicator

[lekevire]

I don't understand why some of us Indians are so ultranationalist to the point we deny our own history just to make ourselves look good. Yes, the Greco-Indian kingdoms existed, and they ruled for a while. Alexander failed to conquer India but left a big cultural influence there. We need to learn to accept that we aren't some giant untouchable beasts that rule the universe for eternity, for we also have foreign influences, like us being Indo-European and the Brahmi script coming from Aramaic.

[nisconupi]

The current countries that were conquered by Alexander the Great must encourage the learning of the Greek language as a way to communicate with all the inhabitants of what was once the Macedonian Empire and with all those cultures.

[FRieza]

Pakistan was 100% hindu state and afghanistan was 100% Buddhist

[amolkodre]

In our Indian mythology the Yavan are mentioned, there was king Kaal Yavan who can not be defeated by any human or gods. lord Krishna tricked him to be killed by the general of God's who was in sleep and had boon that anyone who disturbed his sleep will be killed by him irrespective if he is god or human.

[SaChea-dlrz]

The aryan brokpa from the indus Valley in ladakh who are related to the kailash people

[Manshimiranda-nsoo]

Actually, it was Kanishka who ordered these statues to be built; and in those days there was a great deal of cultural exchange on both the sides, there were Greek coins with carvings of Shiva and other Gods. These were not they Greeks who resided in India and got converted; artisans were actually called to make statues of Buddha and these statues are the first attempt to visualise Buddha in a statue form. The so-called converted Greeks have nothing to do with theses statues.

[no.spectator]

Have you ever checked out the Indus Architectures, carvings and Statues from 5300 years ago

[priyamrupapara]

Bro u are definitely mistaken budhism contains many refrences and similarities with Indian civilisation and budha who was an Indian king not Greek (Gautam) founded budhism and he also had the knowledge of Hinduism

[SaChea-dlrz]

The aryan brokpa still practice their native religion with buddhism

[sambitjena]

It was the greco bacterian empire was earlier part of selucid empire