Greeks & Romans in Ancient India: 8 Things You Might Not Know

2024 ж. 17 Мам.
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In ancient times, the Greco-Roman world and India were closely interconnected. The religion, trade, philosophy, science, and art of these regions influenced one another and created a fascinating melting pot of ideas and peoples.
I hope you enjoy this "list" video style, where I explore everything from Greco-Buddhism to Greek slaves in India, and more.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
0:32 #1 Buddhism Among the Greeks
2:44 #2 Greco-Roman Art in India
4:57 #3 Roman Trade with India
8:13 #4 Roman Communities in India
9:34 #5 Indian Visitors in the Greco-Roman World
11:55 #6 Greco-Roman Women as Slaves in India
13:42 #7 Scientific Exchange
15:07 #8 Astrological Exchange
Sources (non-exhaustive):
Hain, Kathryn A. "The Prestige Makers: Greek Slave Women in Ancient India."
Ray, Himanshu P. "The Yavana presence in ancient India.”
Pollard, Elizabeth A. “Indian Spices and Roman ‘Magic’ in Imperial and Late Antique Indomediterranea.”
J. Thorley. “The Silk Trade between China and the Roman Empire at its Height, Circa a.d. 90-130.”
Geraghty, Ryan M. “The Impact of Globalization in the Roman Empire.”
Fitzpatrick, Matthew P. “Provincializing Rome: The Indian Ocean Trade Network and Roman Imperialism.”
Woolf, Greg. “Imperialism, empire and the integration of the Roman economy.”
Prasad, Durga P. “History of the Andhras.”
“Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.”
“The Geography of Strabo.”
“Pliny the Elder’s Natural History.”
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  • The ancient world was more connected than we think and it's heartening to know that all these people left a legacy of coexistence and intellectual exchange.

    @vid655@vid6552 жыл бұрын
    • @Pk They also traded with Satavahanas who were Sanskritic- Kannada speaker

      @KiranSingh-zr8jr@KiranSingh-zr8jr2 жыл бұрын
    • @Pk I said they spoke Sanskritic- Kannada. Yes Prakrit is also included. But their main records are in Sanskrit and Kannada.

      @KiranSingh-zr8jr@KiranSingh-zr8jr2 жыл бұрын
    • @Pk Lol Prakrit itself came from Samskrt

      @KiranSingh-zr8jr@KiranSingh-zr8jr2 жыл бұрын
    • The Greco-Roman women were not slaves but they were DAS(Servant) for Indians as there is a big confusion among historians and specially the western historians ttrying to prove servants as Slaves. P.S. king and PM is also a public servant.

      @shivarally6171@shivarally61712 жыл бұрын
    • @@KiranSingh-zr8jr Who told u that? Pakrit is order language than sanskrit. U will see many words of Pakrit taken in sanskrit. People know all the letters and meaning of words of sanskrit while many letters and words of Pakrit are yet to be discovered or recognized. That itself proof Pakrit is oldest Indian language.

      @subodh0001@subodh00012 жыл бұрын
  • Greetings to the Great Civilization and People of India from Greece! 🇮🇳🇬🇷

    @dorianphilotheates3769@dorianphilotheates3769 Жыл бұрын
    • ❤️❤️🙏🙏

      @Raajmanthra@Raajmanthra Жыл бұрын
    • kzhead.info/sun/aq2HaLaajXOIeok/bejne.html

      @NickVenture1@NickVenture1 Жыл бұрын
    • Respect to Greece 😇

      @adityaraj2447@adityaraj2447 Жыл бұрын
    • @@adityaraj2447 - 👍🙂

      @dorianphilotheates3769@dorianphilotheates3769 Жыл бұрын
    • The Entire World is one Family 🙏😇

      @Alpha-tr7uf@Alpha-tr7uf Жыл бұрын
  • India was also the source of weapons-grade steel for much of the ancient. Wootz steel was used by everyone from the Iberians to the Romans to the Persians.

    @_sx_@_sx_2 жыл бұрын
    • Nick name 'Damascus steel'...

      @wonderworld7721@wonderworld7721 Жыл бұрын
    • @@wonderworld7721 nah Damascus steel is a lower grade imitation of Wootz.

      @sridharprasanth8833@sridharprasanth8833 Жыл бұрын
    • That steele originated and was forged in the Indian state of Karnataka.

      @tarjd6796@tarjd6796 Жыл бұрын
    • .

      @desktoppc5738@desktoppc5738 Жыл бұрын
    • @@tarjd6796 Wootz steel originated in the mid-1st millennium BC in South India, in present-day Tiruchirappalli, Kodumanal, Erode, Tamil Nadu.[1] There are several ancient Tamil, North Indian, Greek, Chinese and Roman literary references to high carbon Tamil steel.[citation needed] In later times[when?], wootz steel was also made in Golconda in Telangana, Karnataka and Sri Lanka.[2][3][4][5] The steel was exported as cakes of steely iron that came to be known as "Wootz".[6]

      @desktoppc5738@desktoppc5738 Жыл бұрын
  • India, Greece, Rome and Egypt are my favorite historical places. It is awesome that they had a very strong relationship with each other than that of the modern world.

    @aswinvinodk5796@aswinvinodk5796 Жыл бұрын
    • Add ethiopia , persia , and china

      @rediettadesse2828@rediettadesse2828 Жыл бұрын
    • @@rediettadesse2828 Arabia

      @aek12@aek12 Жыл бұрын
    • I love Indian Persian Egyptian Greek Chinese Roman and Macedonian history most. They were the true superpowers of ancient world.

      @superboy3633@superboy36339 ай бұрын
    • I like china more.

      @gouthamkrishnan6718@gouthamkrishnan67182 ай бұрын
  • Living 2,000 years ago, traveling from Italy to India must have felt like an incredible voyage between worlds.

    @John-ct9zs@John-ct9zs2 жыл бұрын
    • Same thing nowadays. A Roman visiting Tamil Nadu or Mumbai nowadays would feel the same awe & culture shock. Same goes for a Gujarati traveling to Tuscany. Although of course the ship ride took longer (& was more perilous).

      @Jumpoable@Jumpoable2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Jumpoable Yeah, but the same big American corporations are in both Rome and Tamil Nadu, LOL. I guess you can compare what the Nike Store and McDonalds are like both Italy and India today.

      @John-ct9zs@John-ct9zs2 жыл бұрын
    • Silk Road mainly. Same route from which Noodles reached to Italy and became spaghetti. Thankful for both kinda foods 😂

      @rajeshswamy9993@rajeshswamy99932 жыл бұрын
    • @@rajeshswamy9993 italian and Chinese pastas have a separate origin and evolution though

      @galgar5660@galgar56602 жыл бұрын
    • @@galgar5660 both are correct lol they had pasta before but just didn’t shape it into long strands until they saw noodles.

      @BL1NDK1NG@BL1NDK1NG2 жыл бұрын
  • Indian universities at the time had a lot of foreign students that came to India to study. it was well connected world and alot of knowledge was exported and imported into india.

    @ashishpatel350@ashishpatel3502 жыл бұрын
    • Yes this liar youtube video maker cleverly hid other facts, or giving the impression that Indians took knowledge from Romans/Greeks while both the knowledges are independent of each other.

      @bhawnabangari2389@bhawnabangari23892 жыл бұрын
    • ​@@bhawnabangari2389 "Closely linked" does not mean we took all our knowledge from the Greeks, exchange of Ideas among cultures was pretty common at that time. European and Chinese travellers would come to India to learn about our Sciences as did our Indian travelers who went to other countries.

      @user-dz7iu7lw7u@user-dz7iu7lw7u2 жыл бұрын
    • @@user-dz7iu7lw7u this video is implying that we took knowledge from Greeks/Romans because he doesn't mention what knowledge has migrated from India to West and Mediterranean regions. The knowledge migration from Bharat to rest of those places is far far much more, but he cleverly hid those facts, and devoted more time to Romans/Greeks ones. He even lied about horoscope signs/astrology. The astrology system of West is entirely different from that which is ours, we follow different charts, but he said that we took horoscopic astrology from them which is lie. Both the horoscopic charts are independent even there are many things in our charts that they don't have.

      @bhawnabangari2389@bhawnabangari23892 жыл бұрын
    • @@user-dz7iu7lw7u I have unsubscribed him today because 1) he is a liar 2) He uses unauthentic sources 3) His videos even contain information from Wikipedia and Wikipedia is king of unauthentic things, propaganda and lies.

      @bhawnabangari2389@bhawnabangari23892 жыл бұрын
    • @@bhawnabangari2389 I also thinks the same.

      @gauravkumeriya376@gauravkumeriya3762 жыл бұрын
  • 🇮🇳❤🇬🇷 ...I love Greece..love from india 🇮🇳....

    @naturedeserverespect3164@naturedeserverespect3164 Жыл бұрын
    • Maybe too much love. Poor slave women...

      @hevnervals@hevnervals Жыл бұрын
    • @@hevnervals He is trying to get Visa in Greece 😂

      @TrickXxl@TrickXxl Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@TrickXxl bruh Pakis do that

      @adithiarjun6764@adithiarjun6764 Жыл бұрын
    • @@TrickXxl greece is a shitter than india so I doubt it

      @HabbyHabsGNG@HabbyHabsGNG10 ай бұрын
    • ​@@hevnervalsthe interpretation is wrong. Those women were Das(servants) not slave. They have wrongly translated the indian word into English. Moreover, the Greek too had indian slaves, so stfu mf.

      @Bingus453@Bingus45310 ай бұрын
  • As an Italian, I really appreciated this video. Indian culture is very interesting and fascinating to me.

    @itacom2199@itacom21992 жыл бұрын
    • it truly is

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
    • Lol communist like cultures😂😂

      @thefuturistics_@thefuturistics_ Жыл бұрын
    • @@thefuturistics_ yes, we do.

      @itacom2199@itacom2199 Жыл бұрын
    • @@thefuturistics_ are you an Italian?

      @aureliano_37@aureliano_37 Жыл бұрын
    • @@aureliano_37 nope.. I'm Indian

      @thefuturistics_@thefuturistics_ Жыл бұрын
  • People just don’t know how awesome Indian History is.

    @quinnreverance611@quinnreverance6112 жыл бұрын
    • Aristotle himself was taught in India, its Aristotle who told Alexander about India and its glories and if he were to ever conquer India, make sure to take at least a Sage from India as loot. Contrary to western HIS+story, Alexander suffered a humiliating defeat & serious injury in (Hydaspes) India, Alexander also lost his partner/lover/boy friend in the same battled. Up on retreating back Alexander never waged further conquest and circum to his injuries. Pythagoras was taught in India, that's where he ripped off his theorem from, there were far more sophisticated theorems, but he grabbed what he understood. Cleopatra was a greek drama queen who destroyed Egypt and looted its accomplishments and took it to greece. Ancient pre-islamic Egypt has lot in common with Indian civilization, has it not been crippled and destroyed, Egyptians were on their way to the realization Indians had, in-terms of Enlightenment. Europeans calling others degrading names is nothing new, where ever European see culture and accomplishments they themselves lacked and wanted to loot, they simply called the Native culture some name before genociding then often with germs and diseases.

      @acharya8959@acharya89592 жыл бұрын
    • @@acharya8959 thats bot true lmao.nobody in greece knew much about india except it existed and the world behind it,this is hust a lie

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
    • @@acharya8959 also alexander won the fight ar hydaspes and there arent any sources for ur claim that he got defeated except the opposite that he won.again a lie

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
    • @@acharya8959 pythagoras was never in india toooooo?wtf i never heard such thing beacuse it is the biggest bullshit

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
    • @@acharya8959 bro,cleopatra was nicest greek pharao because,except the otehr greek pharaos,she tried to help egypt and their citicens and was one of teh few who actually was able to speak ägyptian and yea ägypt was captured

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
  • There is nothing more fascinating in history than when geographically distant cultures interact. You honestly make me proud of living in our age, when access to such information is so easily available thanks to people like you!

    @MrTrickFM@MrTrickFM2 жыл бұрын
    • Wow, thank you! And I totally agree -- these distant interactions are also what I find most fascinating about history.

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
    • True.

      @spr15@spr152 жыл бұрын
    • @@OddCompass please do on indo aryans

      @ajithsidhu7183@ajithsidhu71832 жыл бұрын
    • Tamils also manufactured wootz steel aka Damascus steel, fine silk and cotton textiles. Today nobody knows how wootz steel was manufactured. I think indica of megasthenes is lost too.

      @akashsinha2880@akashsinha28802 жыл бұрын
    • @@ajithsidhu7183 The Aryan invasion of India occurred during the fall of Troy when there was a global famine of seven years. A dynasty in China was also toppled at this time. Only the Bible perfectly explains why Egypt rose while others fell.

      @scintillam_dei@scintillam_dei2 жыл бұрын
  • And all this has somehow filtered dun to an instinctive respect of modern Greeks for modern Indians 🇬🇷 🇮🇳

    @nehmadaharoni8587@nehmadaharoni8587 Жыл бұрын
    • Ad vice versa brother. Vice versa..

      @Light-ji4fo@Light-ji4fo5 ай бұрын
  • Indian education system needs to be updated 🕉️❤️🇮🇳🚩

    @toxishree3816@toxishree3816 Жыл бұрын
  • "The battle of 10 kings" "The history of Nalanda" There are more such things which were never taught to us in schools. I'm glad I found this channel.

    @casperdigo8831@casperdigo88312 жыл бұрын
    • They also didn't teach you that Hitler liberated India by bankrupting the British Empire, and that Brits were worse than Nazis, and that extremely-overrated Gandhi was a racist (which is why Ghana took down a statue of him after finding out). Countries teach people to be like Gandhi because governments don't want people to believe in a method that works to change government: violence. Do I advocate violence? Depends.

      @scintillam_dei@scintillam_dei2 жыл бұрын
    • They only teach Mughal and British empire

      @fsb337@fsb3372 жыл бұрын
    • @@scintillam_dei This is So true.

      @darshu94@darshu942 жыл бұрын
    • @@scintillam_dei Gandhi is no one in india . Indians don't like Gandhi.

      @ripper5941@ripper59412 жыл бұрын
    • @@scintillam_dei and also, chruchill killed many people as equal to hilter, but we only know about hilter.

      @luciusmalfoy5446@luciusmalfoy54462 жыл бұрын
  • When you said "Sadly, this history is often neglected"....I genuinely felt that.

    @piyushpranav4028@piyushpranav40282 жыл бұрын
    • Not to mention biased

      @user-jn7bq8wh1e@user-jn7bq8wh1e Жыл бұрын
  • "No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger" - Samrat Ashoka🚩🇮🇳

    @eliocloud9740@eliocloud9740 Жыл бұрын
  • I don’t care what anybody says, Greeks & Indians are connected for Millenia now! It’s incredible!!!! Outside of the Indo-Euro Greek & Sanskit root words & cognates, there is also the Myth of Dionysus going to India. Also from the time of Alexander the Great onward there was a lot of direct connection. So much cultural enrichment & ideas must have passed back & forth from these very distant civilizations. The Buddhist Proselytizing by the Indians on many of the Eastern Greeks is fascinating as is the influence on the Neo-Platonic Movement! Ancient Greek Scholars were always fascinated by the Wise Men they met in India! That is simply a FACT found in the Ancient Sources. We are not the BS POS Western Brits with their Propaganda! We Greeks know Ancient History & KNOW who the admirable Ancient Civilizations were, and India is on the Top of that List for us!!! 💯 Greetings to our friends in India, may you always stay blessed! 🇬🇷🤝🇮🇳

    @SpartanLeonidas1821@SpartanLeonidas18218 ай бұрын
  • What I admire about Indians is that they know they have had considerable influence and continue to have influence today, but they're very low key and modest about their contribution to humanity. I think that's a wonderful example to follow.

    @oceejekwam6829@oceejekwam68292 жыл бұрын
    • Are you sure? Sort by new in this comments section to see peasants with an inferiority complex.

      @alekisighl7599@alekisighl75992 жыл бұрын
    • @@alekisighl7599 they're just speaking the truth

      @studygram_@studygram_2 жыл бұрын
    • @@studygram_ sure

      @alekisighl7599@alekisighl75992 жыл бұрын
    • What I admire about Indians is their women if you look past the mile of make-up.

      @scintillam_dei@scintillam_dei2 жыл бұрын
    • @@alekisighl7599 Remember even alexander had to suffer a loss in India and returned back. A nation that has produced many religions and holy men don't lectures from descendants of Neanderthals.

      @sattva6089@sattva60892 жыл бұрын
  • I think Ancient India was economically richer than Ancient Romans... atleast that's what the data shows

    @smarterlogic1281@smarterlogic12812 жыл бұрын
    • Right therefore Indian thought they are superior 2 nd superior Greeks and Romans because if science and research

      @reddragonemperor1623@reddragonemperor16232 жыл бұрын
    • Ancient Rome had a massive slave-based and plunder-based economy. Roman Armies would occasionally invade places like Mesopatamia and Germania in order to plunder them. However, most significantly were the shear number of slaves in the Roman Empire. Of course, many wealthy provinces like Italy, Greece, Anatolia and Egypt had strong agricultural, commerce and manufacturing sectors (some of the best in the world), but its still important to acknowledge the rampant slavery and loot.

      @dwarasamudra8889@dwarasamudra88892 жыл бұрын
    • India has never really had a strong slave system. The only times when there was near rampant slavery in India were during the Delhi Sultanate invasions. Slavery did exist in India but it was never on a massive scale and most slaves were just debt slaves who had to serve as slaves I order to repay their debts

      @dwarasamudra8889@dwarasamudra88892 жыл бұрын
    • History shows that agricultural societies closer to the equator were richer for the most of history than societies more distant. India and China were such large economies for that reason. However with the rise of industrialization, capitalist nations were able to develop rapidly and overtake the more tropical countries. After all, industries were important after the 17th century, as countries wanted to expand their powers through military might, which is why the country that produced more guns rose to the top. It was an interesting turning point in history, as suddenly giant, established agricultural civilizations found themselves defeated by a small European country.

      @AmIAPacifist@AmIAPacifist2 жыл бұрын
    • Ooooooooooh that's why the great india got invaded 200+ times ooooooooh ok!!!!

      @jasrajsandhu1658@jasrajsandhu16582 жыл бұрын
  • Indians may have adopted the Greek astronomical signs but the pure scientific knowledge behind the Surya Siddanta is astounding. Not to mention the vedanga Jotisha which is even older

    @kapiltriv@kapiltriv2 жыл бұрын
    • yes indians had knowledge about astronomy and 9 planets before greeks,surya siddhanta book is mind bogling its 10000 years old or maybe older than that

      @GyanTvAmit@GyanTvAmit7 ай бұрын
    • ​@@GyanTvAmitcan you name those 9 planets?

      @adityashukla517@adityashukla5177 ай бұрын
  • I think intellectual exchange was both ways. Mathematical concepts like Algebra, concept of Zero, decimals originated in India which travelled to the West via Greeks & Romans. Even the 'Pythagoras theorem' is actually found in Indian ancient texts much earlier it was discovered in the West.

    @Kalinga_3@Kalinga_32 жыл бұрын
    • 😑lol

      @nowwhat6716@nowwhat6716 Жыл бұрын
    • @@nowwhat6716 Don't believe the comment then, kzhead.info/sun/drSIm6WLhoSYaYk/bejne.html

      @roninsalchemy3769@roninsalchemy3769 Жыл бұрын
    • True

      @dalitnahipehlehinduhu6569@dalitnahipehlehinduhu6569 Жыл бұрын
    • Yes true....our knowledge was much more older and mature 👏 Our old text has many indications to support this...these people infact learned from us and translated into Greek language and not Greek concepts in sanskrit....

      @umasingh3601@umasingh3601 Жыл бұрын
    • @@nowwhat6716 read brahmagupta book on maths you'll know.

      @AK-fd1tb@AK-fd1tb Жыл бұрын
  • would be so cool to see a netflix series with oddball historical vantage points, like the daily life and romantic affairs of a roman sculptor living in muziris, or an indian scholar's life in athens/greece, or the life of a greek buddhist family in bactria/afghanistan...

    @braunarsch@braunarsch2 жыл бұрын
    • What an awesome idea

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
    • Netflix won't do anything which is pro India

      @mayurgudi381@mayurgudi3812 жыл бұрын
    • They would only show demeaning and racist points like Sati and Caste.

      @distorteddingo9230@distorteddingo92302 жыл бұрын
    • @@distorteddingo9230 and what do you mean by the castism & racism or things like sati , which historical Netflix shows you are referring to, ohhh maybe tell me so that I could judge it even before watching it & i might even watch it but i will try my best to not to understand the context of the show so that I can give my complete "support" to the movement of boycotting Netflix . Don't worry bud it's all okay we must try our best to boycotting Netflix because it's anti national , it's urban naxal & maybe even funded by china or Pakistan who knows ?? 😱😱 That would be really bad right ? Ehh ? We should focused on boycotting "maybe" okay "maybe" fictional show talking that talks about not so fictional problems like castism or maybe talks of real issues sometimes but don't forget this is new India people has no rights to speaks about the non-fictional issues but then again which is possible because of new India being totally advanced in every sector and is a superpower & is prevailing in everything which probably is a fictional thing thing just to make the fools out of common public , but don't worry this is new great India here we don't talk about "not so fictional" issues but always talks about "maybe" totally fictional issues , bud you have a great day. **MIC DROP**

      @BabuMosahi@BabuMosahi2 жыл бұрын
    • @@distorteddingo9230 Which is a good thing as most of the problems in modern India are derived from these two abhorrent systems.

      @Mike-wb3oc@Mike-wb3oc2 жыл бұрын
  • I’ve been feeling a connection between India, Rome and Greece ever since I first read Percy Jackson. I’m so glad it’s actually true.

    @Shrutishastry279@Shrutishastry2792 жыл бұрын
    • There is also the Indo-European connection.

      @vr5076@vr50762 жыл бұрын
    • There are a lot of connection especially the similarities between the deities

      @mtk3755@mtk37552 жыл бұрын
    • When I read Percy Jackson, I had a strong connection with every character and always imagined them in an Indian way don't know why though.

      @mohit6070@mohit60702 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah, pagan religions are similar

      @saumyagairola7332@saumyagairola73322 жыл бұрын
    • Lol don’t mistake this brief period in history as a “connection” it was more a connection to indians than it was to greeks and romans in the Mediterranean. Romans and greeks in the Mediterranean could care less about india. Rome had no interest in india especially after expanding its borders to its max. And greeks were much more connected to their roman counterparts worried about roman and greek affairs.

      @meep3035@meep30352 жыл бұрын
  • Great work ... Greetings to all indian brothers from Greece, macedonia

    @stavrosouzounis4691@stavrosouzounis4691 Жыл бұрын
  • The only disagreement I would have with this is that, the Greeks and Romans were at the edges of the ancient world. Even the Chinese sent their best scholars to study in India. Yet we continue to insist that knowledge flowed from ancient Europe to ancient India, which does not make any sense at all.

    @naruvimama@naruvimama Жыл бұрын
    • Couldn't agree more.👍

      @Earthbuddy01@Earthbuddy01 Жыл бұрын
  • In Greek mythology, There are two kings by the name of Pandion I and Pandion II. Coincidentally there was an ancient kingdom in India by the name of Pandian.

    @TamilSelvan-jm6sn@TamilSelvan-jm6sn2 жыл бұрын
    • @@KiranSingh-zr8jr because they are tamils and you are north

      @kimjongun9517@kimjongun95172 жыл бұрын
    • Coincidence ah irukum

      @LOL-cv9it@LOL-cv9it2 жыл бұрын
    • @@LOL-cv9it illa bro anga ori nu oruthar irundharu inga val vil ori inga adhavan anga adhun

      @kimjongun9517@kimjongun95172 жыл бұрын
    • @@kimjongun9517 Bro ithellam conspiracy la kekka nalla irukum but historical ah ithellam invalid.Rendu words um vera vera language la different ana etymology irukum.so ippudi claims panna nammalla adi muttal illa history thirudar ennu ninaipanga

      @LOL-cv9it@LOL-cv9it2 жыл бұрын
    • Indra is Zeus of Greece and Jupiter of Rome.

      @Amitraghaata@Amitraghaata2 жыл бұрын
  • As an Indian-American, you're doing a significant service to your original motherland by making these videos! Thanks.

    @atriacharya2967@atriacharya29672 жыл бұрын
    • Is he of indian origin? I've not heard him ever say so.

      @siddharthyadavchekkala2845@siddharthyadavchekkala28452 жыл бұрын
    • @@siddharthyadavchekkala2845 yes he is from India.

      @jayeshmarathe2744@jayeshmarathe27442 жыл бұрын
    • @@jayeshmarathe2744 how do u know ?

      @blackpearl5834@blackpearl58342 жыл бұрын
    • @@siddharthyadavchekkala2845 he is half Indian His mother is Indian

      @harkabirsingh1122@harkabirsingh11222 жыл бұрын
    • @@harkabirsingh1122 How do you know?

      @siddharthyadavchekkala2845@siddharthyadavchekkala28452 жыл бұрын
  • There is a stone pillar called Heliodorus pillar in modern day Vidisha in central India. It was erected in 2nd century BCE by Heliodorus, a Greek Ambassador to the Shunga Empire. The pillar stands to this very day.

    @arnabbhattacharya1737@arnabbhattacharya17372 жыл бұрын
  • Such a detailed explanation in lucid animation👏. It pushes me to enquire about ur intellectual & academic exploits, if u can. Great work indeed. More uploads would be really exciting. Looking forward to it.

    @gfhh4853@gfhh48532 жыл бұрын
  • With all the evidence of large scale exchange, it really makes me excited to imagine the adventurous outliers that couldn't be documented. Did a South Indian ever visit Ireland? See the northern lights? Did a Roman provincial ever make their way to Assam? The further we push the boundaries of regular interaction, the further my imagination pushes the anonymous adventurers.

    @Alexander_D_Shaffer@Alexander_D_Shaffer2 жыл бұрын
    • That’s a great point! I do wonder how many interesting adventures have been lost to time

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
    • imagine the webseries :)

      @bhuvharshitabhargava9471@bhuvharshitabhargava94712 жыл бұрын
    • indeed, would make a great netflix series!

      @braunarsch@braunarsch2 жыл бұрын
    • ever visit Ireland??? Bunch of TCS Chennai engineers live in the same building as mine in Belfast, with their families .....

      @Tout-Le-Monde02@Tout-Le-Monde022 жыл бұрын
    • I too have wondered on the same lines so many times. We can only see history through documented parts. But then human history has been shaped by so any people who didn't leave any records or probably didn't know how to. It is really fascinating when you think like that. Almost as overwhelming as looking up at the night sky and wondering about the universe, at least to me!

      @MrThe1shu@MrThe1shu2 жыл бұрын
  • I saw the greek inscriptions on the pillars of the troglodyth buddhist temple in Karla. Very mind-expanding! The temple had been founded around the 300 years A.C. The donators were greek and they did not mind a little bit of self glorification . Also, when in India, I found a book about the roman coins discoveries in India. They were of course a lot around the coasts, but also sometimes deep inside Indian continent. Huge topic indeed. At this time, travelling all over the planet was quite more easy than today. Interesting documentary, short but well made. Thanks

    @etiloyon3681@etiloyon36812 жыл бұрын
    • @lmao k Thanks.

      @etiloyon3681@etiloyon3681 Жыл бұрын
    • @Captain M2 I think you made a mistake. You answered to me, a particular individual e()ti loyon; clearly you wanted to answer to the video maker him/herself. You have to correct if you want everybody to read your comment.

      @etiloyon3681@etiloyon3681 Жыл бұрын
  • This channel is criminally under subscribed! Love your work!

    @Imperfecto365@Imperfecto3652 жыл бұрын
  • Actually india was the most economically, militarily, culturally the most prosperous. Hope more indians realise that

    @rajatchopra1411@rajatchopra14112 жыл бұрын
    • Are chavda guruji se hum bhi seekhte hai

      @noice279@noice2792 жыл бұрын
    • no?1 there was always a china next to u which was basically teh sugar daddy of the ancient world and after teh middle ages. 2 military?this is a joke right?ur cast system didnt allowed india to became a huge military power.the military was teh core of teh roman culture.3 u can never say this culture is more culturally prosperous then another if both cultures are empires why? because all cultures in human history were better in one thing than in one other.also india was enevr culturally united until teh british,huge misconception

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
    • @@nihil_hd1598 dear, you have misconceptions... In the last centuries, India has seen many invaders and wealth suckers other than Britishers before the britishers. They divided India that is Bharat!

      @Earthbuddy01@Earthbuddy01 Жыл бұрын
    • @@nihil_hd1598 dear, you have misconceptions... In the last centuries, India has seen many invaders and wealth suckers other than Britishers before the britishers. They divided India that is Bharat!

      @Earthbuddy01@Earthbuddy01 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Earthbuddy01 im not ur dear!!!😡😡😡😡im your daddy!!and india was never untited before the british🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🏳️‍🌈

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
  • I bow to the ancient people & culture of of India and Greco-Romans. Love to all those who proud of their heritage.

    @Edward4Plantagenet@Edward4Plantagenet2 жыл бұрын
  • I have recently been reading Mahabharata and I was surprised to find even it acknowledges Pallav, Dravida, Shak, Yavanas, Shabar, Khas, Yunani, Kirati, Huns, Barbers, Sinhali and Chin(Chinese) sadly this inclusive worldview is not taught by socity

    @mayankbisht7691@mayankbisht76912 жыл бұрын
    • Even Hindu people don't keep Mahabharat book in home and don't study then why will other community people read that book. Moreover people know Mahabharat is mythological story except hindus which obviously will deny, so they don't prefer to read Mahabharat.

      @subodh0001@subodh00012 жыл бұрын
    • @@aryanchakraborty5175 i am sharing my experience while traveling to Delhi from Maharashtra in train. In train some poor guy was selling Mahabharat book and while selling the book people used to see the book but deny buying saying it might lead to ( kalaish, distress) in their family.

      @subodh0001@subodh00012 жыл бұрын
    • @@subodh0001 because it is said that Mahabharat of bought but not read, will bring distress in house. The myths that have been followed are immense too. Nevertheless, I bought it and I have 2 different ones. One of it is still unread. I reread the old one. But everything is fine

      @dss6838@dss68382 жыл бұрын
    • These days non Hindus are being degraded and excluded from histories

      @yj9032@yj90322 жыл бұрын
    • @@aryanchakraborty5175 they are referred to. May be you read some garbage written by a butthurt bhakt

      @yj9032@yj90322 жыл бұрын
  • Read a little bit about it in the book "Transnationalism in Ancient & Medieval Societies" & knew about the vague existence of Greco-Indian kingdoms, but never knew the details. Mind. Blown. The world was always more connected than the nationalistic elites would have you think. Thank you sir.

    @Jumpoable@Jumpoable2 жыл бұрын
  • Most of the Mathematics and Astrology travelled from India to West (Greco-Roman World) But Indians always mark what's foreign origin and what's Indian origin Therefore names highlight the origin You meantioned as if everything was translated from Greek to Sanksrit while there was an exchange of ideas Sanskrit texts were already a lot in knowledge when Greek kingdoms become a thing Pythagoras Theorem , Fibonacci series originated in India ; but West never had this habit of giving credits

    @anshul6168@anshul61682 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah, this video is bogus.

      @user-yc9vx3nz5z@user-yc9vx3nz5z2 жыл бұрын
    • Pythagoras theorem originated in Babylonia.

      @anirudh177@anirudh1772 жыл бұрын
    • @@anirudh177 peoples can develop thing independently

      @-rate6326@-rate63262 жыл бұрын
    • @@anirudh177 what do you think how did peoples build ships without knowing buoyancy. there were already peoples who knew about buoyancy

      @-rate6326@-rate63262 жыл бұрын
    • @@-rate6326 "peoples can develop thing independently" I agree, when did I say they can't?

      @anirudh177@anirudh1772 жыл бұрын
  • Astrology was heavily influenced by Greeks... Bt Scientific Exchange part was a bit illogical to make a conclusion... Indian mathematics and science was introduced to Europe by Islamic kingdoms later. The works of *aryabhatta* was not influenced by any other form and was independent. The value of pi, diameter of earth... Quadratic equations were not influenced by Greeks.... Bhaskaras mathematics was continuation of aryabhattas. Same goes for *surya siddhanta* ..there was a sine table in suryasidhanta where as in Hipparchian table was of chords... Bt sine table was found to be more accurate... U r quoting pingee on direction of flow of information... Bt Yukio Ohashi considers just the opposite... +1 info... Before Christianity, Romans were influenced heavily by Indians... They didn't bury their dead. They started cremation and collected the ash in an urn just like Indians do even today.... Later they adopted Christianity and started practicing the faith. The *Pompeii Laxhmi* is the past that many Italians want to know.

    @thewarriorofbharat@thewarriorofbharat2 жыл бұрын
    • 1 the diameter of the earth and pi was found out by the greeks but yes,also by other cultures too.2 the romans wasnt heavely by the indians?!ancient rome got heavely influenced by the greeks but not the ancient idnians,there wasnt any direct cultural lin kbetween ancient rome and greece and especially rome except of a brief moment(like 2 years).there was at least 1 hige persian empire or other between rome/greece and india.also they buried and cremated their dead because it wasnt rly that important except ot was like a emperor or a very loved general.for the romans only a big long lasting grave was important and cremation isnt rly something india invented ,becauce every culture knew of this procedure.and again a comment like this gets 10 likes....wow

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
    • @@nihil_hd1598 got get some research done kiddo. Dnt humiliate urslf like this😂. I desperately want to counter u with facts bt I really don't want to engage with such person who type such things with their half eye open. Now get up. Else ur mommy will be angry... Grrrrrrrhhhhh🥱 I'm still laughing reading this comment though.

      @thewarriorofbharat@thewarriorofbharat Жыл бұрын
    • @@thewarriorofbharat u are humiliating urself by ur comment becauce u dont give arguments against my comment.u only attack me as a person which is just a stupid ad human argument and not great one either.i could have done the same comment as u do but no ,i i tried to argue with u.if this is ur last answer i basically win the argument because ur answer just shows that u dont know to answer against my argument and u cant even say something against one wrong argument i did...wow got get some research done kiddo. Dnt humiliate urslf like this😂. I desperately want to counter u with facts bt I really don't want to engage with such person who type such things with their half eye open. Now get up. Else ur mommy will be angry... Grrrrrrrhhhhh🥱 I'm still laughing reading this comment though.

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
    • @@grimepilogue2831 ur opinion

      @nihil_hd1598@nihil_hd1598 Жыл бұрын
    • @@thewarriorofbharat Imagine trying to insult someone and then typing this ridiculous comment.

      @lightbringer2794@lightbringer2794 Жыл бұрын
  • This is the history that needs to be recognized more by Romans and Greeks. I truly love this!

    @OffbeatTravelVK@OffbeatTravelVK2 жыл бұрын
    • as a Greek I can say that in Greece we have started to teach it in schools all Greeks accept it

      @yorgos19681@yorgos19681Ай бұрын
  • It is absolutely fascinating to know how truly interconnected the peoples of the ancient world are - far more connected than we give them credit for.

    @heathenwizard@heathenwizard Жыл бұрын
  • This was sooooo interesting and well made! Thank you for this :)

    @MegaJellyNelly@MegaJellyNelly11 ай бұрын
  • Really sad that we do not learn this in school... Luckily I stumbled upon this channel that give legit knowledge about India which is rare these days. This is a really underrated channel that needs more popularity.

    @puranamshyamsunder9880@puranamshyamsunder98802 жыл бұрын
    • Dont jump the gun, verify everything mentioned here esp because there is a lot of evidence about advanced astronomy in India even during 11th century bc to 5561 BC and after..

      @npraneeth35@npraneeth352 жыл бұрын
    • yavanas are mentioned even in mahabharatha, thats not a co-incidence and call for a scrutiny rather than any sort of conclusion...

      @npraneeth35@npraneeth352 жыл бұрын
    • Read your history text book more throughly before commenting this is not in our history books. There are whole 2 chapters about this in 6th class.

      @xlr8466@xlr84662 жыл бұрын
    • "Really sad that we do not learn this in school" is just a very long way of saying that you didn't even read the Index page of any of your history textbook, because if you had, you would have known that NCERT books cover every aspect of Indian history in details.

      @RustyDustyCrusty@RustyDustyCrusty2 жыл бұрын
    • We do learn this in school.

      @ghungrooseth1946@ghungrooseth19462 жыл бұрын
  • I can vouch for muziris which is here in Kochi, Kerala south india. And the state government has done an amazing work in keeping the history alive. With museum's and the whole city of muziris reconstructed. So much history around us. Thank you for bringing out this to the world.

    @viveksingh-ok6il@viveksingh-ok6il2 жыл бұрын
    • And then northies (whose politicians are too busy in corruption) cry about how "cOmmUniStS aRe eRasiNg HiStORy"

      @vandemataram2035@vandemataram20352 жыл бұрын
    • @@vandemataram2035 they are, communism by it's very definition will erase the existing culture. Look at Mongolia, Russia, china etc

      @adityakarve6808@adityakarve68082 жыл бұрын
    • @@adityakarve6808 Huh? Last time I saw, the Russians held their culture up dearly. They are among the most traditionalist in Europe, and so are most of the other eastern block nations. Getting your information from where, PragerU?

      @vandemataram2035@vandemataram20352 жыл бұрын
    • @@adityakarve6808 And last time I also saw, China was having a revival in Confucianism and Confucian values as well. Seems like you are mistaking "culture" with "traditional morals". Communism is against traditional morals, like say Sati, or Russian serfdom, but fun fact: Cultural endowments in the USSR were the highest in all Europe. Also fun fact: Kerala and West Bengal both have the highest nobel prizes in culture related sectors. Both were communist.

      @vandemataram2035@vandemataram20352 жыл бұрын
    • @@vandemataram2035 China is having a revival, after a several decades of the CPC absolutely butt fucking Daoism and Confucianism. This is partly due to the Tianmen Square Massacre, whereafter China decided to push for more nationalistic education. Is china even communist? Half the commies I meet say 'nOt ReAL CoMMuniSm'. They got a 'free market economy', the only aspect of communism I see, is strong government control over this 'free market', and 5 year plans. In that case, is this even communism, or capitalism with strong state control? Russia is one of the most unequal nations today, things were really no different under communism where party officials and favorites were given priorities and luxuries not afforded to the average comrade. They also invested heavily in needless defense production (I get it, NATO is right there, but no one needs to produce 20000 tanks every decade) at the cost of civilians standards of living. Not to mention the absolute failure in the R&D sector. The government is not all knowing to decide where research should go. After the dick measuring contest that was the space race, Russia failed to properly computerize or improve standards of living. They moved from communism to something very similar, oligarchy. Indian 'communism' is thankfully not close to those levels of mental retardation, partly because it exists on a state level at best. Communism does not work, it is a good catalyst for social reforms maybe, but on a long term, it's dog shit. Ask the Chinese Communist Party and Deng Xiaoping if you don't believe me.

      @adityakarve6808@adityakarve68082 жыл бұрын
  • Greeks and Romans are our trading friends ❤️❤️❤️💪🏾 . They came to south India through sea route and got black pepper and more spices. And search about sank port called 'poombukar - Tamil nadu' . '

    @BlackpearlAbu@BlackpearlAbu Жыл бұрын
    • Excuse me sir ,they first and started friendly relationship with west india...obiviusly western country first steped in india in maharashtra and goa

      @kanishkapoojary772@kanishkapoojary772 Жыл бұрын
  • Very informative, Its a lot of hard work to put all this together. Thank you. :)

    @meghontrip@meghontrip Жыл бұрын
  • It's crazy how connected the ancient world was and how often we only learn a small bit through a Euro-Centric lens. I would love to read about the reactions when these travelers saw things that were completely foreign to them, like seeing an Elephant or Tiger for the first time.

    @eastsidereviews727@eastsidereviews7272 жыл бұрын
    • Romans and Greeks have seen African elephants. And chances are the Greeks could have seen a siberian tiger around the Black Sea!

      @arthurfleck1554@arthurfleck1554 Жыл бұрын
    • @@arthurfleck1554 Greeks in North India traded war elephants after a Battelle with a Indian King I forgot his name. Later that Greek General take those Elephants in Greece probably

      @whocares3132@whocares3132 Жыл бұрын
    • @@whocares3132 that king was Chandragupta Maurya founder of Maurya Empire and grandfather of ashoka. He defeated greek king selecus and married his daughter and gave them 500 elephants

      @riderchallenge4250@riderchallenge4250 Жыл бұрын
    • @@arthurfleck1554 Correct, though some animals like the rhino were new and something they didn't feel too good about. Also, read the mythicized story about the Odontotyrannos. When they got to India they had to deal with people, animals, climates etc. that all became increasingly "different", but also diseases they weren't used to. Must've been quite humbling and scary to find out how big the world really was.

      @ewoudalliet1734@ewoudalliet1734 Жыл бұрын
  • In Arikamedu port both Chinese and yavanars (Tamilars called Greek people as yavanars) are coming for trading Tamil traders never allowed them to exchange their goods directly. Chola traders keep two ports one for Roman and another for Chinese They buy both countries traders good and sell Chinese goods to Roman and Roman goods to Chinese

    @ravik5787@ravik57872 жыл бұрын
    • Poom puhar was lost to the sea surge

      @fatpotato3512@fatpotato35122 жыл бұрын
    • @Ajith KP Yes

      @LOL-cv9it@LOL-cv9it2 жыл бұрын
    • Everyone in india call them yavanas

      @ramanpalyal@ramanpalyal Жыл бұрын
    • S,cholas were sea explorer,they had strong trade connection with ancient Chinese and romans ,there were stong ties with southern part of India, recent times excavation r solid proof.

      @ThamizhiAaseevagar@ThamizhiAaseevagar Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for this comprehensive video. Can see your hard work shining through every second of the vieo

    @youtubestudio2817@youtubestudio28172 жыл бұрын
  • Love and Respects for Greece and Italy from India !!! 🇮🇳 ❤ 🇬🇷 ❤ 🇮🇹

    @robinsonxlnt8135@robinsonxlnt81352 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much for making these vids man, as a Indian diaspora guy whose a passionate amateur historian and cant penetrate Indian language stuff I think I speak for myself and many others when I say you make this way more accessible and entertaining and make me proud of our history!

    @culturedmonkey6395@culturedmonkey63952 жыл бұрын
    • Thank you, that's high praise!

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
  • To be in close interaction with a foreign culture was highly valued- light skin, light hair, Greek dress was seen as exotic and association was highly prestigious🤣🤣🤣🤣we haven't changed much in 2000 years, it seems😆

    @atriacharya2967@atriacharya29672 жыл бұрын
    • Rare items can be sold for higher prices in local market ,what does this have to do with light skin ?

      @arun0921@arun09212 жыл бұрын
    • We also have to remember that the Greeks felt the same way about Persia and India.

      @syedahmed8650@syedahmed86502 жыл бұрын
    • @@syedahmed8650 not India

      @user-lh2yf9ch4k@user-lh2yf9ch4k2 жыл бұрын
    • @@user-lh2yf9ch4k Indo Greeks would beg to differ

      @syedahmed8650@syedahmed86502 жыл бұрын
    • interestingly, white people used to import abyssnian/ethiopian women in the same manner.

      @AshishBihani@AshishBihani2 жыл бұрын
  • Your are sharing a lot of good knowledge about ancient Greek and ancient India, I appreciate that! but I also like if you share the reference atleast from where you get the information! you have great voice!

    @kalyug9988@kalyug99882 жыл бұрын
  • A very well composed video, Thank you for the knowledge!

    @neeleshkumar4928@neeleshkumar49282 жыл бұрын
  • This channel is really great. You make videos without any prejudices against Indians, unlike many others from the west. Maybe it's because you know more than those people about our culture, for which you can understand us and this country better.

    @ytguypro@ytguypro2 жыл бұрын
    • I’m Indian ethnicity myself, so that may be why I have a different lens than most other westerners!

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
    • @@OddCompass true😁😁🙏

      @user-kt3jn7wx5f@user-kt3jn7wx5f2 жыл бұрын
    • @Niku Singh There is not much evidence for that.

      @kalyanvadlamani7607@kalyanvadlamani76072 жыл бұрын
    • @@kalyanvadlamani7607 Lol there are plenty of evidence...itrs just that it is neglected due to eurocentrism

      @mrcollector4311@mrcollector43112 жыл бұрын
    • @@mrcollector4311 I mean, the first examples we have of Pythagorean triples aren't Indian either, they're Ancient Egyptian papyruses and Mesopotamian tablets, dating from roughly 1000 years earlier than the earliest recorded Indian example of them. That being said, those examples are from prior to both the collapse of the Harappans in India and the late bronze age collapse which saw the end of a lot of Mediterranean and middle eastern civilisations, so its impossible to tell the full extent of each cultures knowledge and discoveries beyond what has been preserved from what they left behind. If memory serves it's also called the 'Shang Gao theorem' in China due to the astronomer that's credited with developing it in Chinese academic tradition. Would that be an example of Sinocentrism? Considering that maths is about fundamental truths about the universe and not a particular cultures ideas it's entirely possible that people from different places independently came to the same conclusion. Or were aware of the same hypothesis and independently came up with a proof. Srinivasa Ramanujan for example developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers without being aware of Jacob Bernoulli's development of them a few hundred years earlier (when he was a teenager no less!). Another example would be both Leibniz and Newton independently coming up with theories of calculus, Newton of course being somewhat self-obsessed immediately tried to discredit Leibniz as a fraud. Let's not be like Newton, especially because the truth is so far back in the past that it's likely we'll never know the answer.

      @td1559@td15592 жыл бұрын
  • This was incredibly interesting, I've only ever heard casual references to the connections between these cultures but this taught me a lot, great job on this one!

    @thehistorybuff1883@thehistorybuff18832 жыл бұрын
    • Glad you enjoyed it -- hope you're doing well!

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
  • What an amazing thorough research, thank you, I've learned a lot.

    @lotusseed355@lotusseed355 Жыл бұрын
  • This video was really really Informative!! Thank you very much sir.. For this👌🏻👌🏻

    @riteshprakash6361@riteshprakash6361 Жыл бұрын
  • Romans : We are literally going Bankrupt due to trading Spices and Carpets with India. Satvahana Kingdom : Babe, Spices are 40% off due to amazing the harvesting season, you buying? Romans : Yes, Honey.

    @papyrustheroyalguardsmen3446@papyrustheroyalguardsmen34462 жыл бұрын
    • get 60% off, just bring that blonde and any redhead with you

      @oksowhat@oksowhat2 жыл бұрын
    • why satvahana kingdom its like you are excluding south india tamil kingdom mention correctly . and spices were harvested in south india only. pepers in the malabar region and perls diamond in the tamilnadu region . so dont change the history for your mistake or liking .

      @sudarshanr5187@sudarshanr51872 жыл бұрын
    • @@sudarshanr5187 When the joke literally goes over your head.

      @papyrustheroyalguardsmen3446@papyrustheroyalguardsmen34462 жыл бұрын
    • @@papyrustheroyalguardsmen3446 ok then let me also make joke with half truth's

      @sudarshanr5187@sudarshanr51872 жыл бұрын
    • @@sudarshanr5187 Tamil Detected Opinion Rejected.

      @papyrustheroyalguardsmen3446@papyrustheroyalguardsmen34462 жыл бұрын
  • 8:35 I like the fact you just translated "Greek alphabet" in Greek and used it in the parchment paper

    @marolibez@marolibez2 жыл бұрын
    • Lol, you caught me :P

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
    • @@OddCompass 😂😂🙏🙏

      @user-kt3jn7wx5f@user-kt3jn7wx5f2 жыл бұрын
    • @@OddCompass 😂😂🙏🙏

      @user-kt3jn7wx5f@user-kt3jn7wx5f2 жыл бұрын
    • Hahahaha I noticed too

      @ozzymendes5650@ozzymendes56502 жыл бұрын
    • Whenever you see Sanskrit, it's literally the word sanskrit phonetically spelled out in devanagari which is the writing system for sanskrit.

      @vathys00@vathys002 жыл бұрын
  • pakistani are upset after knowing the histroy didn't start from 1947

    @i__18@i__1811 ай бұрын
  • Wow, thank you for creating/posting this piece. I did not know this and it spurred me on to looking up more information. Thank you!!! 😊

    @MichaelAdamGReale@MichaelAdamGRealeАй бұрын
  • Wow the trade was so flourish 🌸🌺💐 Now I get to know where Romans get the tigers from… For the Coliseum entertainment. Gladiators 🐅🛡⚔️ 😆😆👍🏻👍🏻

    @takenbythewindNdrivenbythesea@takenbythewindNdrivenbythesea2 жыл бұрын
    • Haha yep! The coliseum tigers may have been partly sourced from India

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
    • Oo nice analogy

      @ravenxrgaming4672@ravenxrgaming46722 жыл бұрын
  • I knew absolutely none of this prior to this video. This is all super fascinating! I had no clue there was so much interaction and mutual influence between Indian and Hellenistic cultures. Wow. Also, I have to say, the illustrations and artwork are improving by leaps and bounds with every video.

    @Dosaskillz@Dosaskillz2 жыл бұрын
  • You should do one about Ethiopia and the Swahili coast too. I want to see how the subcontinent interacted with them.

    @bloodfiredrake7259@bloodfiredrake72592 жыл бұрын
  • Great video, thanks! Really gives one some more perspective on our histories.

    @jayrey5390@jayrey5390 Жыл бұрын
  • Tamil literature also told that the Pandiyan King sent some Men to meet Augustus Ceasar for closer ties by land but only 3 of them finally reached

    @POLSKA-sy6hp@POLSKA-sy6hp2 жыл бұрын
  • Once again thank you for taking this up. You are the earliest youtuber to focus on India. Feels nice to know that people were connected even before internet era. Just one thing though. You mentioned Greeks/ Romans discovered monsoon winds can be leveraged for transportation on ships. It could very well be Indian merchants are the ones who discovered the trade routes considering how it benefited India more.

    @sriharshacv7760@sriharshacv77602 жыл бұрын
    • You are correct -- the Arabs and Indians were already using the monsoon winds. The Greeks and Romans "discovered" it in the sense that they learned how to navigate it the way that Arabs and Indians had been doing so.

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
    • Many KZheadrs are doing it or have been doing it, in Indian languages.

      @user-pakshibhithi10@user-pakshibhithi102 жыл бұрын
    • @@OddCompass I don't know why, but, this video is giving some vibes that Indians took knowledge and didn't give.

      @user-pakshibhithi10@user-pakshibhithi102 жыл бұрын
    • @@OddCompass you're doing an awesome job. Due to eurocentrism and purity of chinese culture, china and west are much explored in global history but india is largely ignored.

      @Aman-qr6wi@Aman-qr6wi2 жыл бұрын
  • I think based on my very limited expertise of History of this era, transfusions of knowledge from Alexandria was both ways rather one way to India. Thank you for extensive list of references, I’ll go through them.

    @mohanvorganti@mohanvorganti2 жыл бұрын
  • Good content. Plz make videos more often!!!

    @akashchougule4844@akashchougule48442 жыл бұрын
  • I love how some scholars considered Greeks as "impure" yet still acknowledged that they know some shit and thus they should be respected. Shows how complex worldview Indians had (and have too). We never have been simple people, :D

    @puneetmishra4726@puneetmishra47262 жыл бұрын
    • Disregarding people simply due to colour/ethnicity is a relatively christian thing. The Spaniards, British and now Americans do it. Honestly it's so depressing.

      @Cheiko18@Cheiko182 жыл бұрын
    • “Relatively Christian thing” no, all humans are guilty of it.

      @koolaids6616@koolaids66162 жыл бұрын
    • Greeks used to consider Non-Greeks as Barbarians at that time.

      @mxxmauuhan3597@mxxmauuhan35972 жыл бұрын
    • @@mxxmauuhan3597 Interestingly, the word Barbarian originated in Ancient Greece and was used to refer to Non Greek speaking people or foreigners. It comes from the Greek word Barbaros which means Babbler and is also related to the Sanskrit/Hindi word 'Barbara'(बड़बड़ाना) which means to mumble. Basically, to a native year the speakers of a foreign tongue made unintelligible sounds like "Barr Barr Barr.." Interesting origin of the word , and how it means something different in the modern world now.

      @essee3984@essee39842 жыл бұрын
    • @@Cheiko18 No it is NOT! everyone did it to different degrees. It was often at its worst in the colonial west, but that was not a result of Christianity but of colonial age thought.

      @tylerpatti9038@tylerpatti90382 жыл бұрын
  • Amazing content! totally loved it. See a lot of hardwork here, graphics and editing were mesmerizing. Fortunate to be a part of this long journey.

    @AbhayShan21@AbhayShan212 жыл бұрын
  • Nice one. Got to know a lot more. Thank you 🙏

    @VijayKumar-dy7ol@VijayKumar-dy7ol Жыл бұрын
  • Really nice video. I knew there were ancient cultural ties (the origins story of Dionysus is a good example) between India and the Greco Roman world but did not know they were that extensive. I m happy to know now that there was a bit of a hype about the Amazon concept in ancient India :P

    @Letsobichlass@Letsobichlass2 жыл бұрын
  • I had no idea European and South Asian culture was so intertwined so far back

    @micahistory@micahistory2 жыл бұрын
    • It's not European but Greeks. Remember rest of Europe are tribals at this point of time.

      @123fle6@123fle62 жыл бұрын
    • @@123fle6 well Greeks and Romans

      @micahistory@micahistory2 жыл бұрын
    • @123fle Greeks are still European, that’s like saying Germans aren’t European.

      @koolaids6616@koolaids66162 жыл бұрын
    • @@koolaids6616 it's like sri lankan claiming China's history because both are in asia. Thing is rest of Europe at that point in time had no civilization. Germanic tribes, Celtic tribes, nordic tribes, Baltic tribes, Slavic tribes, Iberian tribes have nothing to do with Greeks. European identity is recent made up not ancient or historical.

      @123fle6@123fle62 жыл бұрын
    • "INDIAN" Culture not South Asian!

      @hrivaansahani1750@hrivaansahani17502 жыл бұрын
  • India is a Mystical Land where cultures mixed, knowledge exchanged and races united for thousands of years!

    @QuantumCosmos2.0@QuantumCosmos2.02 жыл бұрын
    • Races united for thousands of years? Wtf

      @uptheblues1875@uptheblues18752 жыл бұрын
    • @ROHIT yea dude it's not like there has been constant warfare over the centuries in this region. Open up a history book sometimes. Makes you not sound like an idiot

      @uptheblues1875@uptheblues18752 жыл бұрын
    • @@uptheblues1875 yup everybody in India is of mixed race, none is pure white or pure black or pure asian

      @musirhythm@musirhythm2 жыл бұрын
    • @@musirhythm nobody is pure white pure black or pure asian anywhere anymore

      @uptheblues1875@uptheblues18752 жыл бұрын
    • @@uptheblues1875 they are but not as mixed as Indian. We are mixed with all types of dna from caucasian to aboriginal Australian native. We are more diverse than any part of the world.

      @hj2711@hj27112 жыл бұрын
  • Excellent Infographics. Hats off on the narration. 😮👍

    @anandh1621@anandh16212 жыл бұрын
  • Fascinating! Great work!

    @384384384384@3843843843842 жыл бұрын
  • 0:01 that Akhand Bharat map though 🧡

    @TakshakAKALali@TakshakAKALali2 жыл бұрын
    • Akhand Bharat was larger..

      @chintu.laddurao3029@chintu.laddurao30292 жыл бұрын
    • Iraq iran,Afghanistan, Pakistan,tajikistan, india, nepal, bhutan, tibet and some part of china, Bangladesh, sri lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and few more were the part of akhand bharat And who are contradicting this, plz see the hindu god sculpture found in all of these countries

      @vitaminprotein2217@vitaminprotein22172 жыл бұрын
    • @@vitaminprotein2217 include Europe and US too. Sanghidiot 🤣💩

      @homoteaser@homoteaser2 жыл бұрын
    • @@homoteaser he is right

      @Noone-gz8li@Noone-gz8li2 жыл бұрын
    • @@homoteaser read history mulla xD

      @chintu.laddurao3029@chintu.laddurao30292 жыл бұрын
  • Syncretic nature of the ancient religions makes for great cultural exchange and great art, etc. Sad that it's only the Indian branches that have really survived the onslaught

    @richiknair9036@richiknair90362 жыл бұрын
    • Chinese and Japanese too

      @KiranSingh-zr8jr@KiranSingh-zr8jr2 жыл бұрын
    • @@KiranSingh-zr8jr Yes of course.

      @richiknair9036@richiknair90362 жыл бұрын
    • Thanks to idiots who twisted Abrahamic religious beliefs.

      @Sarabheswaran7010@Sarabheswaran70102 жыл бұрын
    • @@KiranSingh-zr8jr chinese Religion made it by hanging to a single thread. Same applies to Hinduism and shinto religion.

      @gracefulcubix4730@gracefulcubix47302 жыл бұрын
    • Lithuanians too have an unbroken link with their ancient religion which has survived till today. Interestingly, they also call their gods "dievas". Must be because of the shared Indo-European connection.

      @robinchettri6966@robinchettri69662 жыл бұрын
  • If Rome had a trade deficit with India and was losing gold for India luxury items, then how can you claim that Greeks/Roman influenced art and carvings in India? Shouldn't it be other way around? I feel that Indians actually influenced the art style or maybe that art style was common in ancient world.

    @shatzco@shatzco Жыл бұрын
  • Here he says most of the knowledge about astronomy and others was converted from Greek to Sanskrit .. 😂 I find it hard to believe.. while it was the other way around.. our civilization is more than 7500 old

    @rg1563@rg15632 жыл бұрын
    • Probably tho . Whatever we say , Greeks were pretty awesome at science

      @advickprosankto@advickprosankto2 жыл бұрын
  • In sangam literature it is mentioned that Yavanargal(Greeks/Romans) worked as mercenaries/sell-swords/bodyguards to the royalty. Yavana armies were purchased and traded among the southern kings.

    @ShaileshSaravanan@ShaileshSaravanan2 жыл бұрын
    • Yes indeed, a pandyan king called Nedunjeliyan even had some roman legionaries as his bodyguard.

      @PROOB-xq2rq@PROOB-xq2rq Жыл бұрын
  • There is nothing I love learning about more, I think, than the ancient interactions between Greece and India.

    @AwesomeSauce696969@AwesomeSauce6969692 жыл бұрын
  • Such a refreshing pace of narration compared to the overly emphasised tones like Real Life Lore. Subbed!

    @johane4764@johane4764 Жыл бұрын
  • Great video man !

    @aarongriego429@aarongriego429 Жыл бұрын
  • Asked for it, and you delivered! Thank you ^-^ I enjoyed this video a lot.

    @tianlonghong665@tianlonghong6652 жыл бұрын
    • Glad you enjoyed it!

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
    • @@OddCompass Please make videos on number of Temples broken, how people tried to save them and how Murti from one part of country was found in another. Look for "Hindu temples and what happened to them" by Sita Ram Goel also "Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples" by Meenakshi Jain.... In fact the temple to the Sun God of Kashmir is now a part of the British Museum.

      @pulz1191@pulz11912 жыл бұрын
  • Good video . I don't know why some Indians are straight up denying that Both Side influenced each other . Some people only want to beleive that their side only influenced other .

    @abed9718@abed97182 жыл бұрын
    • true

      @udhayakumarMN@udhayakumarMN2 жыл бұрын
    • those indians think our ancient indians are FOOL ENOUGH TO NOT LEARN FROM OTHERS ??

      @udhayakumarMN@udhayakumarMN2 жыл бұрын
    • Majority of Indians are very sensitive . Thousands of years of foreign rule. So they live in this made up world that before those 1000 years they were the greatest and only those 1000 years made them not so great

      @amritraj41@amritraj412 жыл бұрын
    • @@amritraj41 I mean, you can see from the video that they were really great. No doubt.

      @penpithmind1941@penpithmind19412 жыл бұрын
    • @@penpithmind1941 he talk about the present people of India

      @joshelxiour1404@joshelxiour14042 жыл бұрын
  • Love your video! Can we have a video of how the Indian side saw its trade with Greeks and Roman’s next?

    @rishisharma5827@rishisharma5827 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for this informational video for these lost history of these ancient civilisations 🙏👍🏻

    @hariharpuri1362@hariharpuri13622 жыл бұрын
  • People always talk about merchants traveling the ancient and medieval world far and wide but often forget that this was just as big among artists and craftsmen. A lot of Europeans served at Asian courts. You could end up with French blacksmiths at Mongol courts and Italian glass manufacturers in India etc etc.

    @bnb6868@bnb68682 жыл бұрын
    • Nope, glass manufacturing was a trade secret. google Glass and Venice. And poor people (black smiths, 'artists') could have never those paid for those journeys. People who travelled those distances were rich, multilingual and sometimes had a 'letter of credence', otherwise they would be robbed and killed or robbed and enslaved!

      @arthurfleck1554@arthurfleck1554 Жыл бұрын
  • Wow wow wow.. This is a such an underrated channel. The kind of effort you have put in the research & presentation is next level & amongst the best on youtube. To me, your channel fills the gap in the history lessons that were taught to me & many like me in India. How does this channel not even have 100k subscribers? Come on guys...this is a channel, that needs more views & subscribers than those reaction channels that have many thousands of subscribers. RESPECT!

    @rocky4187@rocky41872 жыл бұрын
    • Thank you so much! Sharing the video definitely helps 🙏🏽

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
    • @@OddCompass You deserve it Bro & thats the least I could do. Just a small suggestion - I think you should also open a PayPal/Patreon account. I will be amongst the first to contribute👍🏽

      @rocky4187@rocky41872 жыл бұрын
  • Indian scriptures were translated by greeks and sent to other parts of world

    @LMNOP12@LMNOP12 Жыл бұрын
  • Chandragupta Maurya's second wife (whom he married years after the death of his first wife) was a Greek and the daughter of a high ranking Greek official, though her name remains a mystery and might have been Helena. His guru Chanakya was against this union but agreed only if the son born of the marriage would not ascend to the throne. It is currently unknown whether they had a son or not as after four years of marriage, Chandragupta converted to Jainism and became a monk.

    @niyatis0207@niyatis0207 Жыл бұрын
    • There's no historical evidence regarding the existence of Chanakya. He's a manufactured figure by cunning Brahmins to impose there supremacy along the lines "that there was a great king in ancient India, but he attained greatness because he had a master of even greater stature..."

      @booybooybooy@booybooybooy Жыл бұрын
    • @@booybooybooy Chanakya was real.

      @Johnnyjoestar1772@Johnnyjoestar177211 ай бұрын
    • @@Johnnyjoestar1772 proof?

      @booybooybooy@booybooybooy11 ай бұрын
    • @@booybooybooy i think u should read the buddhist and jains texts maybe?? or a simple wiki search is enough if u dont have time or knowledge

      @souptikpal4736@souptikpal47363 ай бұрын
  • Great coverage for a fast-paced explainer! An an enjoyable topic too. Thank you!

    @MayureshKadu@MayureshKadu2 жыл бұрын
    • You're very welcome!

      @OddCompass@OddCompass2 жыл бұрын
  • Just finished the video, great work. Whenever you upload, you always do great work in discussing topics around India that many would not know, truly excellent content 🤩😁

    @mylesjude233@mylesjude2332 жыл бұрын
  • Some people try to promote the idea Macedonia and Greece were the same thing.

    @vanderelst5996@vanderelst5996 Жыл бұрын
    • No. Macedonia is only a part of Greece. 😘

      @MessiniaGreece@MessiniaGreece4 ай бұрын
  • Very interesting. We often forget how interconnected the world has been historically. Love videos on subjects in addition to warfare such as trade. I’m surprised India hasn’t featured in a stand-alone game (I’m aware it’s in The colonial games but a whole India map with dozens of settlements to capture the scale would be great) similar to Shogun as their so much that could be done. Classical era maps; medieval and gunpowder ages.

    @ryanharris1052@ryanharris10522 жыл бұрын
  • There are Syrian Christians in Kerala(where Muziris is) who trace their origin to the evangelistic activity of St.Thomas, which was enabled mainly by the flourishing Indo-Roman trade. Another Greek traveller Cosmas IndicoPleustes (500 AD)has written about Christians thriving in India,whose head was a bishop from Persia. Numerous Persian crosses with Pahlavi(the language spoken in Sassanid Persia) inscriptions on it have been also found in Kerala.In fact, a large proportion of Christian in Kerala still use Syriac(the closest relative to Aramaic)in their liturgy

    @evanssamuelbiju4315@evanssamuelbiju43152 жыл бұрын
    • But most of the Syrian Christians were forcefully converted to catholicism by Portuguese.

      @PROOB-xq2rq@PROOB-xq2rq Жыл бұрын
    • Notonly in kerala ,they are also in maharashtra bengal and goa majority

      @kanishkapoojary772@kanishkapoojary772 Жыл бұрын
  • Well researched and to the point video

    @drrajmmc@drrajmmc Жыл бұрын
  • Wow!! Watching whole video...was worthful nice explanation...

    @trptv823@trptv8232 жыл бұрын
  • This is such a great topic and I just red about it and Menender l yesterday.... I hope next you make something about Kushan Empire....

    @part-timebrock1126@part-timebrock11262 жыл бұрын
    • It is probably Mahendra. The butchery they make of Indian names.

      @tintunbirha@tintunbirha2 жыл бұрын
    • @@tintunbirha it's Menender lol. How about doing some research before typing...

      @part-timebrock1126@part-timebrock11262 жыл бұрын
    • @@part-timebrock1126 : They do make a butchery. When I listen to Hindi channel I get the names which make more sense. Your research must have shown you the names of river as Ganges ( which translates to female who is a Baldy in hindi), instead of Ganga. LOL

      @tintunbirha@tintunbirha2 жыл бұрын
    • @@part-timebrock1126 , Yes it must be Mahendra, not menender.

      @ganeshreddy2623@ganeshreddy26232 жыл бұрын
    • @@ganeshreddy2623 Man, do Google search first

      @part-timebrock1126@part-timebrock11262 жыл бұрын
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