Ancient Greek State in Afghanistan

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The conquests of Alexander the Great and the Wars of his Successors which we covered in our previous animated historical documentaries (bit.ly/2BoFtRD) opened Asia to the Greek influence and culture and the process of Hellenization encompassed all regions from Egypt to China. However, the easternmost state the Ancient Greeks created was the kingdom of Bactria, which gained independence from the Seleucid Empire. This state became the shining beacon of the civilization in the region and influenced it for centuries to come, most famously by creating a synthesis with one of the Buddhist sects - the Mahayana.
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@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Some Greek swag for our viewers: bit.ly/2BqY8KR

@giannisgiannoulas8528 5 лет назад

I Thank you for caring and making video about the greek history

@VladTevez 5 лет назад

@@SwordEncarmine Pontus rulers, the Mithridatic dynasty, were hellenized Persians

@rmz9309 5 лет назад

Ottaman Wars ?

@VladTevez 5 лет назад

@@SwordEncarmine Yes

@SIGSAUER_P320 5 лет назад

you say Hellenic not greek.ooook???

@МахамбетМамыров 5 лет назад

Heracles - protector of Budda. History never stops to fascinate me.

@VladiSSius 5 лет назад

@Chao Li watch the video.

@luckiller019 5 лет назад

>top ten most ambitious crossover

@cv4809 5 лет назад

I lost it at Greek Buddhist monks,I really didn't expected that

@SeymoreSparda 5 лет назад

Don't just stop there..Greaco-Buddhist..think of the potential! Muthaphukkin' Shaolin Greeks, man! Remember how hard the Ikko-Ikki, the Shaolin warrior monks of Japan, had been as a pain in the arse for Nobunaga before he subdued them (watch Extra History Sengoku Jidai part #3,you'd get it)? Imagine Shaolin kung fu infused with ancient Greek wrestling (pálē), boxing (pygmachia), and no-holds-barred mma (pankration)? Imagine Shaolin monks doing the hoplite and phalanx formations, with their hybrid pole-arms designs and tactics..brah...

@ReviveHF 5 лет назад

@@SeymoreSparda Actually, the Chinese had developed their own system of martial arts and hoplite/phalanx style tactics during the Xia and Shang Dynasty period, that's way before the arrival of Buddhism. However, there is a possiblity that Shaolin Kungfu was a hybrid Chinese and Greek martial arts, I also think that Damo（達摩）was likely a Greek buddhist priest.

@StefanMilo 5 лет назад

I had no idea Greeks were in that part of the world before Alexander as part of some Persian gulag system. Great video!

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

I wouldn't call it that, but yeah :D

@RedbadofFrisia 5 лет назад

Lol i love the internet

@bobmiller3627 5 лет назад

Joseph Stalin, "Stalin! Baby! Your mustache is looking PARTICULARLY nice this week! Plz don't send me to the gulag :("

@enoughrope1638 5 лет назад

Quite often I hear people say "Afghanistan can never be conquered by the west" or some variation. I always reply "The Greeks held it for a hundred years...." Typically they are confused and ignore me from that point on as Bactria is obscure and doesn't fit the popular narrative.

@byshopwilliams8256 5 лет назад

@@enoughrope1638 you hit them with intelligence and in return they hit you with ignorance.

@boogeymann6686 5 лет назад

Greek guy talking: dude, I just went to Alexandria last week. It was pretty cool. Other guy: which Alexandria??

@twojacksandanace3847 5 лет назад

actually it's Alexandria the furthest no the farthest.

@twojacksandanace3847 5 лет назад

@Jigov wtf did you get that bs? Greece is a country with Greeks the people who live in it, Alexander was Greek, im not Greek and even i know that, people like to say he was Macedonian, but if thats true than were Athenians and Cretans not Greek as well?

@twojacksandanace3847 5 лет назад

@Jigov Dude, Greeks have lived in Greece a very long time, since back to the Minoan Empire, there is solid evidence of a great deal of contact and trade between Greeks and ancient Egyptians. The Bulgarians are actually the new comers, the Bulgar tribes and the first Bulgarian Empire came during the Byzantine Period, after the fall of the western roman empire. Don't know where you have gotten all this ridiculous bs, honestly you sound insane spouting out all this crazy stuff that is completely made up. Bulgarians first arrived in the Balkans and near Greece in 681 AD, Proto-Greeks arrived in the Balkans at the end of the third millennium BC, thousands of years before the Bulgars. I assume that you are Bulgarian and are a but hurt nationalist all for a "Greater Bulgaria" and see the Balkans and especially Greece as rightful Bulgarian clay, unfortunately you are wrong and blinded by the lies that have been told to you for a very long time. History, Science and the majority of Europe and the world are against you, your opinion is just that, yours and maybe a few others, everyone else knows the truth and that your wrong, whether you like it or not.

@twojacksandanace3847 5 лет назад

@Jigov We must be on different pages because your making no sense to me, yes the modern Greece was formed in 1830, and i am quit sure i would have heard about a massive invasion of Greece by a tribal people and almost total assimilation of the native peoples, your essentially saying that an invading people wiped out or mostly wiped out actual Greeks and has been pretending that they are the real Greeks. Dude your delusional, that's like saying that British aren't actually the real British and are actually not British people that have been disguised as Brits for the last hundred and fifty years, wtf is this man?

@twojacksandanace3847 5 лет назад

@Jigov I'm done with this, your fucking insane man. Actually look some shit up, not everything on the internet is false. Your saying that Bulgarians taught all of Europe the idea of sharp metal weapons and how to refine precious metals, make wine, ride horses and make objects with their hands? Your smoking something man, i will say it again, Bulgarians first arrived in Europe during the time of the Byzantine Empire, and i am pretty sure people knew how to make weapons out of metal, make refined gold, make wine, ride horses and make shit with their bare hands during the time of the Eastern Roman Empire, or are you insinuating that the Roman empire didn't have horses, wine, gold and swords? Perhaps Alexander the Great didn't have any cavalry and Caesar was killed with wooden daggers because they didn't know what the fuck metal was. Stop pestering me with this crazy shit, i think you need a brain scan and some therapy clearly you going through some issues.

@JCO2002 5 лет назад

I visited Balkh in 1977. That was before Afghanistan descended into decades of conflict. I still remember sitting high on the wall looking across at a horse rider with a flowing turban riding through rich, green fields in the distance. It was magical.

@JCO2002 5 лет назад

@@myth1234xd I was born in 1952.

@mortezamiri9861 5 лет назад

I am from Afghanistan, born in 1997. I have never seen a peaceful Afghanistan from the day I was born your words made me emotional

@satarjahish 5 лет назад

Despite the war, people still get high in Balkh, sit on the wall (which is pretty ancient) and enjoy the view.

@nicholaspo5743 5 лет назад

@@panosp.k9063 There are a lot of white people in northern Afghanistan with red/blonde hair as well as different eye colours so id say theyre related to the bactrian greeks.

@nicholaspo5743 5 лет назад

@Guy Who's not gay Modern Greeks dont look white but when you look at ancient greek paintings/statues they all look pale white. Its just like how modern Turks of Turkey look more Southern European/Middle Eastern rather than Asian Turkic.

@ThisisBarris 5 лет назад

Let me guess, the cities were named Alexandria?

@farhanhyder7304 5 лет назад

It is a region of long and rich history

@darthbricksempire3606 5 лет назад

This is Barris! - French History Hmm, why would you think that?

@madshagen5849 5 лет назад

Kandahar, the Afghan city which was a stronghold of the Taliban, and capital of the province of the same name where American and British have been fighting for the last 16 years derives its name from "Iskandar" -Alexander. It is one of the Alexandrias... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandahar#Alexandria

@justanothershitlord199 5 лет назад

It's a good name for a city.

@elhombredeoro955 5 лет назад

In India suffix to a city name is 'pur' and 'bad' and there are many places named Sikanderpur and Secunderabad and even Sikandra.

@wythore 5 лет назад

Man, imagine being part of Alexander's army, traveling literally to the end of what was the known world to them, and still find people speaking your languange in such a far away place.

@tomlxyz 4 года назад

But they probably had a very different dialect due to isolation. In the past dialects could been so different because of isolation that some couldn't understand others despite having the same language

@Chrissy3615 4 года назад

@Salt & Pepper No at least the Macedonian people and the Greeks had no idea about China. I remember reading that Alexander wanted to see what was beyond as his tutor when he was younger (Aristotle) had no knowledge about the land beyond India. Also the silk road was not as prominent at Alexander's time

@archaeaoris900 4 года назад

@@tomlxyz this is correct, but also the Greek cities and kingdoms around the known world had their own Greek dialect, so unless the dialect has changed a lot, they would understand that they were also Greeks.

@refiyukilhu672 4 года назад

@Salt & Pepper noo -_- ... The term silk road was spread in 700AD

@jekesan4221 4 года назад

@Salt & Pepper Silkroads doesn't exist yet at the time until Han dynasty came to be and conquered Tarim Basin

@johnx4133 4 года назад

*Alexander arriving in bactria and meeting Greeks* "Yo, what the fuck"

@pierren___ 3 года назад

Are you dumb? Its after Alexander passed that they stayed

@mibikchellaimibikchellous2238 3 года назад

@@pierren___ Have you seen the video?

@pierren___ 3 года назад

@@mibikchellaimibikchellous2238 yes

@pierren___ 3 года назад

@@mibikchellaimibikchellous2238 oups sorry

@AK-dd9od 3 года назад

So is this video-maker now going to claim that Greeks built the Bamiyan Buddha statue too? Its seems the claims about Greek contributions warrant some questioning.

@LeviathanSpeaks1469 5 лет назад

Hercules and the Buddha... History's first Avengers team...

@abberss 5 лет назад

I believe they are known as the Super Best Friends

@rajsekharRonaldo5297 5 лет назад

Hercules ( hulk) & buddha(dr strange) 🤣

@muhammadbinyaqub16 4 года назад

I wonder when the Vikings along with Thor will join it

@seiamaknoor490 4 года назад

😂😂😂😂😂

@arthurlecomte8950 4 года назад

Herakles*

@JodenPaoloPeroy 5 лет назад

That CK2 "Ambitious" modifier though.

@AtticusAmericanus 5 лет назад

Ha, noticed that too.

@connorgolden4 5 лет назад

I hate that trait with a passion...when it isn’t me who has it.

@leonzoful 5 лет назад

@@connorgolden4 you can always make that character general of a tiny army, and send him to its certain death xD

@vinicius2uiciniv 5 лет назад

Well, just hoping Imperator Rome to play a Hellenic in India/Afghanistan

@nikolak4225 5 лет назад

made me smile lol

@iminformedbecauseisawabunc9402 5 лет назад

"many greek cities were founded in his wake" Such as Alexandria, Alexandria, and Alexandria Oh and Alexandria

@MrRenegadeshinobi 5 лет назад

I think you forgot Alexandria.

@redlighter8767 5 лет назад

@@MrRenegadeshinobi But what about Alexandria. Or Alexandria, or even Alexandria.

@MrRenegadeshinobi 5 лет назад

@@redlighter8767 And then there's Alexandria.

@giannisv.4472 5 лет назад

And last but not least Alexandria eschate

@giannisv.4472 5 лет назад

@@kevray Alexandria eschate means exactly Alexandria the furthest

@YiannissB. 5 лет назад

The last surviving independent greek realm was 10.000 miles away from Greece. Dope

@nasmcmasters8056 5 лет назад

yia sou maga, o papous mou einai baltoumas

@cartographerofarda6253 5 лет назад

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 He said that his grandfather had the same surname with the guy above

@YiannissB. 5 лет назад

@@gilbertkasnija7085 nah, we was just "20 good men",

@YiannissB. 5 лет назад

@@gilbertkasnija7085 k

@CptAngelKGaming 5 лет назад

@@gilbertkasnija7085"Everyone knows that". Except for people that have actually done research on the topic, unlike you ;) Get educated..

@thejordanianphilosopher6666 5 лет назад

Respect Greece from the Levant .

@jonnymak1079 3 года назад

1 LOVE

@selfcare1108 3 года назад

Love from Greece

@starman1144 3 года назад

@jorgan Kharn No, Greece was created by the Greek revolution agenst the Ottomans. King Otto was appointed King by the Greeks because the monarchies of Europe didn't want an independent Republic to exist in Europe. Also because the country Greece was created in 1823 that doesn't mean that Greeks didn't exist before that. And you are from North Macedonia right??? And your people cleam Ancient Macedonian ancestry. So by your logic, how a Albano-Slavic country created in 1992 is related to an ancient Hellenic country???

@selfcare1108 3 года назад

@Kadir Garip 100% agree, respect from Greece

@AK-dd9od 3 года назад

Bactria is part of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, as well the northern borderlands of Afghanistan. The Afghans had conquered a portion of what was formerly southern Bactria and annexed it to the Afghan state. If there were any Greeks left in southern Bactria, they came under Afghan control.

@devil44371 5 лет назад

This was a wonderful episode guys

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Thanks for supporting us. :-)

@devil44371 5 лет назад

@@FirstLast_Nba yes indeed your right my friend :)

@devil44371 5 лет назад

@@KingsandGenerals you guys are welcome and thank you for making these kind of episodes :-)

@jmenonejake9374 5 лет назад

Basically, it is greek Australia.

@zerosuitsamus2340 5 лет назад

XKripton 12 but there is still no boxing cangaroos and giant spider. But hey at least they have mountain snake

@jmenonejake9374 5 лет назад

@@zerosuitsamus2340 no problem, greek Australia dont need to have these things!

@hasnan7 5 лет назад

@@zerosuitsamus2340 Afghanistan and Pakistan northern areas have one of the most impressive animal in the world, Snow leopard. But you will be lucky to see one in your life. The damn thing is champion in hide and seek, complete ghost with minimal interaction with humans

@MarfSantangelo 5 лет назад

Did you just call the nomadic tribes emus?

@jmenonejake9374 5 лет назад

@Authentic Person #987123 XD

@MrShadowtruth 5 лет назад

'Oh, Afghanistan. How you have fallen so! What has happened to cities of Balkh and Kunduz? The gardens of Ghazni and Qandahar? The great palaces of Kabul? You are like a mistress who has lost her lover and weeps for her children.' - Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir, part 3, pg 98 It's a shame what happened to some regions of the world. Actions from the past are still vividly felt in the present.

@Adi-mw9bz 5 лет назад

Yes Friend but dont forgent many of people say its because of islam No it is not islam sence 1000 years in afghanistan in 1970s 1960s look the pictures of old afghanistan its like another country Its not because of islam that afghanistan was destroyed its because of people who used islam for their own profit its really shame for us a Afghan poet says If I made you like hell, ,i also will make you like paradise.

@MrShadowtruth 5 лет назад

._. what the fuck are you talking about? @@Adi-mw9bz

@Adi-mw9bz 5 лет назад

@@slugakristov8343 You are dumb as fuck bro

@Adi-mw9bz 5 лет назад

@ShinRaPresident I'm sure that in life you have never really met Islam. you just learned everything from media and stuff. I give you an example A thief who stolen his hand must be cut as punishment. That's right, but that has special cases. 1The thief must be grown (no child). 2 Someone who did not know that theft has such a penalty. 3 What is not under protection and if someone takes this (steals). 4 What is stolen must have a certain value. 5 Someone had to steal because he had no money for food. if someone has these special cases his hand does not have to be cut. That's the problem, there's still a special case or many cases for almost everything you've told me. Please read the book "Tafsir English" if you want to read the Koran. Koran can not be explained alone without prophet. That's why you have to have a "tesfir book" next to koran and read the Quran.

@Adi-mw9bz 5 лет назад

@ShinRaPresident First of all, islam has nothing to do with ethnic things. Even a white American may understand Islam better than your wife. Even if she understood Islam, she would not marry you, but that's another topic. Islam is a religion for one person and a condition for several people. No matter what we are with this condition and we can not change the rules as the Christian have made it in time. I'll give you another example. When America waged war with Japan, its military issued a US order ARMY throw atom bombs in Japan. And the soldiers did it. They had to because it was a command. An command of people. Koran is the command of God of Allah and we will follow that to the end.

@Tommykey07 4 года назад

MAGA: Make Afghanistan Greek Again!

@glennross85 4 года назад

YES!

@KeyhaneBishomar 4 года назад

We are greek in some degree. But you should make anatolia greek again ,afghanistan never was greek in origin anyways, but we can remain close friends with greek :)

@ΓιάννηςΚλάδης-τ8π 4 года назад

Things that make a nation are language religions ways and blood... Well bloodlines may be long lost for almost all nations but we can still find the rest, we can still find universal ideas in greek thinking and philosophy and learn more about one another. My regards, from Athens.

@KeyhaneBishomar 4 года назад

@@ΓιάννηςΚλάδης-τ8π good point, its no longer those days to seperate your nation from others, we all know when we separate and dont care for other nations arround our own, there always be some morons to try to destroy your nation with using all kind of natural and military disaster. We all know human can be vengeful and dumb, so we better come together faster than before. One day Earth will have one flag.

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

Alexander was no Greek but Illyrian!! All the world is Illyrian!!

@connorgolden4 5 лет назад

I love how you guys cover the lesser known parts of history, the stuff you don’t see on the history channel or in classrooms. Never change Kings and Generals!

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Thank you, we won't :-)

@theexplorer7139 5 лет назад

@@KingsandGenerals Have you done the kingdom of Aragon? I have only seen small YT vids on it.

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

@@theexplorer7139 only Las Navas de Tolosa

@beagle8863 5 лет назад

That's exactly why i love this channel

@connorgolden4 5 лет назад

A S What are you even saying? Learn how to write a proper sentence before commenting.

@sayakchakraborty4206 5 лет назад

The Indo-Greeks are perhaps the least studied elements of Indian history, but personally they're my favourite of all time.

@bloodfiredrake7259 5 лет назад

That's because they are barely Indian and more Pakistani.

@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 5 лет назад

@@rottingdog6798 that's like saying that Austrian history has nothing to do with German history

@rottingdog6798 5 лет назад

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 No, it's more like Germans claiming Roman history.

@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 5 лет назад

@@rottingdog6798 yoy can't say Indians steal pakistani history if the pakistani identity hasn't existed for longer than 100 years and the things that have happened in the Indian subcontinent have mostly happened before the partitioning of India by Great Britain. India will obviously then talk about the history of the Indian subcontinent which includes the Indian Republic and Pakistan. Similarly, for much of Austrian history, the Austrian dukes/archdukes were emporers of the holy roman empire which was made up of other German sovereigns, so of course Austrians would talk about the history of other German lands, that doesn't mean that they're trying to steal the history or claim Germany or anything like that.

@rottingdog6798 5 лет назад

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 I can tell you're an Indian. First of all, the things that took place in the region of Pakistan is the history of Pakistan, simple as. I don't see how it is Indian. Secondly, the idea of a separate Muslim state has always existed, just read the poetry of early Urdu poets in the 13th century. Thirdly, the British Raj only lasted for 90 years, not enough for a unified identity to form. The Ghaznavid empire lasted longer than that. Fourthly, the name 'India' is also stolen, Indian means the 'land of the indus'- the Indus being a river that is only present in what is now modern-day Pakistan.

@Oxtocoatl13 5 лет назад

It's interesting how Afganistan was a central crossroads for a very long time, sort of in between everything. I just read from a history of Afganistan that the rulers of the Kushan Empire that replaced the Greco-Bactrians were themselves Central Asian Nomads, but had converted to Buddhism, wrote about it with the Greek Alphabet and used the titles of Shahanshah, (Persian) maharajadhiraja, (Indian) Son of Heaven (Chinese) and Caesar, all at once. Talk about a cultural melting pot.

@florintanase9348 5 лет назад

Why do you think AMERICA coveted Afghanistan so much

@ShadowSumac 5 лет назад

Surprise when ancient times were more of a cultural "melting pot" than nowadays.

@Oxtocoatl13 5 лет назад

@@DustOnCloud9 Not really, similar strong Muslim states emerged in their place. The Ghaznavids and Ghurids come to mind. I would argue that the decline of wealth in Afganistan has more to do with the decline of the silk road and the emergence of global naval trade, of which the landlocked area cannot take part. Islam is an umbrella, under which many cultures could still flourish. Persian, Arabic, Indian and Chinese Muslims were all still culturally different and members of all these groups continued to live in Afganistan. It's also worth noting that the remote parts of the Hindu Kush mountains were only converted to Islam in the 1880s by military conquest, so actually Islam has existed alongside other faiths for most of its history there.

@Oxtocoatl13 5 лет назад

@@ShadowSumac Well I would say the melting pots are just elsewhere now. Also with globalization and internet, the world has pretty much come a melting pot of sorts. We're most likely not from the same country and yet we're discussing the history of a place neither of us has (probably, sorry if I'm wrong) visited.

@taled8320 5 лет назад

You could make similar points about India or Persia as well being a cultural mixing pot. Your skewed perception is due to the way historians study Afghanistan and the wider Central Asian region. They’re not seen as a civilisation or a centre of empires in their own right but nomadic barbarians who are the far regions of Greek, Roman, Chinese, Persian or Indian civilisation. Just to clarify: the Kushans didn’t convert to Buddhism. Ruling over a land with different religious adherents, they minted their coins with deities of all religions and used their titles, to appeal to their subjects and cement their rule - like the Parthians ruling around the same time did.

@h96573 5 лет назад

And I believed Ptolemaic Egypt was the last region in the world that the Greeks were ruling... Seems Greek India has a longer story to tell.

@giannastavros4653 5 лет назад

no! you are wrong mate. The Greek kingdom of alexandria of egipt destroed at 30 b.c. The last greek kingdom have been destroed at 10 a.c. It was the greek kingdom of Alexandria Bukefalia and it was at the south eat borders of India.

@THEGAME-ko3mg 5 лет назад

What about Pontus?

@niccolorichter1488 5 лет назад

@@THEGAME-ko3mg Pontus was maybe in fact the last independent greek state , they were Annexed by the Roman Empire in 62 AD. But there is a problem , they were very mixed Greeks ( with Persians , Lazi,...)

@eliaspapanikolaou3563 5 лет назад

@@THEGAME-ko3mg Very Good Point ..[Pontus was the most ANcient HELLENIC Place the Hellenazation of the Place was BEFOR E TRojan War [Argnonaytes time ]and After Alexander Time Remaine with Hellenic kings until Rome Conqer the Place ..Later remaine Byzantine until 1463 ]was THE LAST Byzantine area Falls to the Ottoman ]And since 66.B,c [Roman Conqer ]unti 1463 A.d NEVER face an invation from Barbarians or ANY other

@dylan2478 4 года назад

Niccolo Richter I thought they where predominately Persian

@navidahmed7922 5 лет назад

As afghan i am extremely happy that our history is taught internationally.

@AfghanHearts 5 лет назад

It's not our history in this video. This video is full of false claims. Seriously, it isn't based on facts. In reality greek influence almost completely vanished from bactria about 20 years after alexander left. And only greek / Phoenician alphabet and the production of greek-style royal coins, as a cultural impact, remained in Afghanistan. The bactrians were local iranic people (Afghans) . the claim that the greeks had a century long state in Afghanistan is completely bogus. I don't know from which historian this guy got his "information" on. He basically attributes the bactrian kingdom to the greeks, only because they used phoenician alphabet. It's a shame who many people believe random claims on a RU-vid video. Seriously though.

@freedomhop 4 года назад

Navid Ahmed don’t forget your history

@tediousone3270 4 года назад

@@AfghanHearts he has literally written his sources in the description

@AfghanHearts 4 года назад

@@tediousone3270 his sources don't even claim that the bactrian kingdom was "greek". the maximum they say is that they "might be" connected to the seleucids.

@CoronelRadec 4 года назад

@@AfghanHearts at least the video claims have sources, yours are only: tRusT mE i Am fRoM tHis pLaCe

@DrFroyd123 5 лет назад

As a Greek, I thank you for this video. These are not taught in Greek schools

@mountainbreeze4176 5 лет назад

Why not I would have thought Alexander the great’s Legacy would be one of the most important

@jayeshpatel3704 5 лет назад

Sorry because it is a lie from this video that's why guy is making money from this lies

@jayeshpatel3704 5 лет назад

Alexander went for revenge against persia, he lost to porus ran and left his soldiers, west is glorifying him with lies

@gurpartapsingh2369 5 лет назад

@@BasileusAlexandrosGRAIKOS Alexander retreated from the River Beas of Punjab. He was disturbed by Mallian compaign, he never entered deep into now Indian Punjab and further into India. I live in Punjab. He never came here, he retreated from borders of Punjab. That truth.

@allensnea9335 4 года назад

@Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας, I wouldn’t really call a Greek conquering of India. The conquering was mainly west and some of central India. Sure the rule was very bad, but it wasn’t as bad as the British. Remember that the south was untouched by the Greeks and the north absorbed very little Greek culture (maybe a few borrowed words at most). I respect Greek people but remember that Indian people are very diverse and don’t call an invasion.

@tedcurtis932 3 года назад

Poor ethnic Slavadonians believing in Slavic Bulgarian speaking origins of Makedon, when Alexander spread Hellenism

@WoodsLesnik 3 года назад

It's a shame they don't cherish their Thracian origins

@nestororiginal2344 3 года назад

@@WoodsLesnik Thraki has nothing to do with Bulhgaria but Greece

@krasimirparvanov8139 3 года назад

@@nestororiginal2344 на😄

@krasimirparvanov8139 3 года назад

I wish it were so simple. How much do you think the Thracians, Illyrians etc. were? in the army? A lots of. If you see photos of Baktrian people in traditional clothing, it is identical to that of Bulgaria, Macedonia.🤔

@nestororiginal2344 3 года назад

@@krasimirparvanov8139 😂😂😂 So you bulgarians claim Makedonia as well 😂😂😂 not only Thraki haha. Let me teach you something. Bulgarians came to the Balkans from Asia around 600 years after Jesus and thus after being in war against the Khazars. Thrakians were alongside with the Makedonians, Epeirotes Athenians...And all other Greeks since 3000 BC living in the balkans. So the shit you say is good propaganda, but somebody can easily understand that it is shit and not true

@abdulkadirmahiroglu1131 5 лет назад

Greece has a great history. Respects from Turkey.

@Blacknightgr1 5 лет назад

respect to you too. from greece

@leukocyte9260 5 лет назад

Good just peace

@antonis1740 5 лет назад

Thats very nice

@mertkilic9711 5 лет назад

Yeh I'm a Turk, respect to our Greek homies 👊

@icspawn 5 лет назад

There were neither greeks nor greece. All of these two names were created for the politics in 19th century. In macedonia the biggest god was Hephaistos. This god depicted as forging while iron. And there were found coins containing "IYI" stamps. There were Kurgans contains "ISKIT" figured helmets. So we should rethink History thesis again over these new foundings. As an addition there were different kind of civilisations in Agean and Mediterranian who shares in same region. But that does not make them Greeks.

@nikowoods5794 5 лет назад

Now I get it why Mahayana Buddhist statues,even modern ones do have a lot of distinctly Greek influence. Incredible Thank you for the video. Very interesting and informative

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Thanks for watching :-)

@Shibestrike 5 лет назад

Mahayana = Mazdayazna (Zoroastrianism) The Greeks stumbled into their teacher’s land. They knew it at the time. They had influence in civilizing the region, but the philosophical tradition from there had been brought to the Greeks via Persian empire hundreds of years earlier.

@alberteinstein4935 4 года назад

@@Shibestrike mahayana comes from Sanskrit, Maha=great, yana=wheel. "The Great Wheel"

@Ghaztoir Год назад

@@Shibestrike You don't know that.

@georgehatzo9755 5 лет назад

"γεια σας Έλληνες" translated to hello greeks Damn it i love this channel if it is a hello to greek viewers i love you more!!

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Hey! :-)

@katskoul 5 лет назад

As a Greek and as a historian, I congratulate you on the great account you give on the video. You shed light on a part of history that hasn't been dealt with to the extent it should have. Thank you!

@greatpower8147 3 года назад

As a historian u should know that Alexander the great and his macedonians were not greeks.

@niksato5210 3 года назад

@@greatpower8147 hahahaha nobody except fyromians claim that.

@greatpower8147 3 года назад

@@niksato5210 Lol Read Demosthenes and Thucidides, they Both say clearly that they are BARBARIANS, With"Barbarians" they mean Non-Greek🤫

@johnnycash7020 3 года назад

Barbarians means non Speaking Greek. Learn history Slavodonian 1991 MD

@xeno8958 3 года назад

@@greatpower8147 really and how did he spread the greek culture in Asia ?as you saw in the video if you understand history about Bactrian Kinghorn was greek explain that if you can noob

@Kim_Jong_Un_boom 3 года назад

Macedonia is Greece

@pauladam2867 5 лет назад

Marvel: Avengers Infinity War is the most ambitious cross-over ever made . Me: Watch this video and say sorry

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Next episode in this mini-series will blow your mind. :-)

@AnonymousAnonymous-yq5ox 5 лет назад

wait until you learn about that one century where Algeria/Tunisia was ruled by Germans en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandal_Kingdom

@Stathube 5 лет назад

Gives a new meaning to the term 'Magna Graecia'!

@nikolaostouloumis1573 3 года назад

Yes! That is right.

@hernancortesfranciscopizar7916 4 года назад

For all philhellenists , it's was a shame to see the attempt of thief greek history by the former yougoslav republic of "North Macedonia" and to claim Alexander the Great like a slavic conqueror. Greek history is so rich and is the mother of western civilisation. Happy to see that now Hellas and his neighbour of the north are in peace. ☀️🇬🇷

@snowmoon7385 5 лет назад

That explains some greek like buildings in our plain areas hmm...beautiful architectural designs of greece always..

@ancientgreekkingdomofmaced5186 11 месяцев назад

Alexander the Great created the Great Greek empire.

@arpan6827 5 лет назад

As an indian, i didnt knew about the 200 year greek rule. Very good content .

@sachlangjamatia7141 5 лет назад

Some says Punjabi/surrounding people have some Greek genes also

@monsterchopper1613 5 лет назад

Because They were highly indianised They became buddhist... They were ousted by Guptas

@mxxmauuhan3597 5 лет назад

The Great King of Kalinga Kharvel beat one Demetrius in Central India.

@abcd9283 5 лет назад

Because in india textbooks say about myths not history.

@susmitamohapatra9293 5 лет назад

Yes, the Greek rule over northern part of the Indian subcontinent happened between the Mauryan and the Gupta empires, which many people don't know about (A direct consequence of the fact that it is not taught in school).

@avinashankamreddi9113 5 лет назад

" the gandhara school of arts was developed by Greeks. It represents "the Greek statue with Indian soul." It means they were influenced by Indian philosophy . There was a famous book on the conversation between Menander and Buddhist monk , known as " the questions of Menander" .

@vsvrp1995 5 лет назад

Its called melindapanho.. meaning the questions of menander

@p.mrtynjy 5 лет назад

It is called the milinda panha

@MyPunksta 5 лет назад

In ancient times people would convert to the other philosophy/religion if they lost the debate.

@albertrexhepaj8330 5 лет назад

avinash ankamreddi, GANDHARA MEANINGS, ALBANIA DIALECT GJAND HARA, GJAD HARA, GREECE LOGO KATA MIKOS, INGLES TERRITORY ALONG, ITALI TERRITORIO LUNGISIMO, GANDHARA FIRST NAME ALBANIAN.

@albertrexhepaj8330 5 лет назад

ALEZANDROY TITLE MEANINGS, ALBANIA ALE ZAN TROY, GREECE MEGALO KATARTITI, INGLES GREAT CONQUEROR, ALEZANDROY HERO OF ALBANIA.

@prof.cecilycogsworth3204 5 лет назад

The Greek influences in the Mahayana never fail to fascinate me. Thanks for setting them out so clearly.

@erebos3990 5 лет назад

On behalf of all Greeks, thank you for this video. Ancient Greek legacy endured through time and made us all pneumatical descendants of Plato, Thucydides, Pythagoras, Alexander... Proud to be a direct heir of those men!! Ευχαριστούμε!!!

@surajitdas3764 4 года назад

But didn't able to continue your culture Olympians .

@vasohatzipetrou2680 4 года назад

@chachi mogo well science has proven them wrong.. there are plenty of studies to read to ... and i mean real science.. not youtube science..

@vasohatzipetrou2680 3 года назад

@Alkis Steas Actually ... dumb persons are the ones who ignore science... like you.

@100samanthamarie Год назад

Wasn’t Alexander a murdering maniac? I’m not proud that some of my ancestors might have scalped people.

@macedoniaisgreece6213 10 месяцев назад

The Greeks are everywhere.

@Alex_K7777 3 года назад

"Alexander founded Greek cities and spread the Greek culture" FYROM be like:😡😡😭😭

@krunomrki 5 лет назад

And today in Afganistan: no Greeks, no buddhists, no prosperous commerce; only tallibans and opium.

@ilipap3695 5 лет назад

@shield&sword peace Actually the Grecovactrian kingdom and GrecoIndian kingdom was there for 250 years and maybe more. and of course Afganistan there was not as state at third Century B.C.

@ilipap3695 5 лет назад

@shield&sword peace dear shield &sword peace of course and greeks are very few when they win Darius and coνquer Persia and Bactria. they have different system of qovermance than Persian Empire and mixed with the local population. But when you said that how quickly happens that . for example that happens after 2 years of the death of Alexander the great , after 10 years or more?

@Rickuo 5 лет назад

@chachi mogo @chachi mogo How ignorant can you even be? Taliban are fundamentalist Muslims. They simply follow the teachings of Muhammad and copy the actions of the first Muslim Mujahedin according to Hadith. Yes, they were helped by the USA to fight against the communist regime of Afghanistan (which, surprisingly enough, turned Afghanistan into a prosperous nation), but it is because of Islam that Afghanistan is now, completely unsurprisingly, a backwards hellhole.

@nicholaspo5743 5 лет назад

@@Rickuo And how ignorant can you be? How are you gonna lie and say they followed the teachings of prophet Muhammad when everything they did was the opposite of the teachings of prophet Muhammad and Islam? They butchered Shias for being Shia, women for being women, different ethnic groups for being from a different ethnic group than them, and destroyed the crops of the people so they all would starve to death. The actions of Taliban are the same as those that were committed by the Mongols during 12th and 13th century.

@lst141 3 года назад

It’s called the fall of civilization

@Nicholas-kn9eb 5 лет назад

Kings and Generals your work will never cease to amaze me! I love how you have been bringing the Greek history to light. You're like if Dan Carlin could talk for less than 4 hours, but just as informative!

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

That is a high praise, thank you! :-)

@kimjongwin 5 лет назад

Many Greek people don't even realise that there are millions of Indians with Greek DNA

@janiskhan1822 5 лет назад

No I think that would be in present day northern Pakistan and Afghanistan . The Pashtuns do have striking Mediterranean features. compare to the rest subcontinent people.

@rudrapsarkar 5 лет назад

nor do idians...vice versa. ignorance is universal

@kimjongwin 5 лет назад

Janis Khan I've seen people in the Bengal region who look very european

@thegreekpro 5 лет назад

@@kimjongwin I have heard of a tribe somewhere around there who claim to be the descendants of Alexander's Soldiers and they worship the Greek Gods.

@justgamesaaron7968 5 лет назад

@@kimjongwin well your wrong bro greeks have more influenced and relatioships with persians more than indians its just ppl don't mention about it its stressing

@adamvanek5868 5 лет назад

I have to say that I am impressed that you actually have made a video about Greco-Bactrians/Indo-Greeks. It's not so known chapter of the Greek history. Thumbs up ;-)

@AK-dd9od 3 года назад

Greece was largely based on plagiarism and borrowing from the older, more established civilizations of the East, be it mathematics, engineering, etc. It's also doubtful these civilizations needed Greek help to build statues of the Buddha; they had already been doing that long before the Greeks showed up.

@marklang4940 3 года назад

@@AK-dd9od Plagiarism!!! borrowing???????? the Greek culture always will be in your blood stream!! it is inevitable in your everyday life..... Envy is a bad thing for your soul and hygeia !!!(health)

@AK-dd9od 3 года назад

@@marklang4940 Greek culture might be in your blood stream, but it plagiarized heavily from the civilizations of the east, including the much older and far superior Aryan Hittite civilization. And the R1a gene haplotype indicates you have more of the eastern civilizations in your bloodstream.

@marklang4940 3 года назад

@@AK-dd9od Aryan Hittite civilizations Great! but the democracy and human dignity you're enjoying guess who invented it! and if i have R1a gene of Hittite and Mesopotamian or Aryan is very OK with me they were great like Greeks too!!!! no complex here!!!!

@lonsrjoy74 2 года назад

Right I'm here because I'm a Genetic match to the Greco-Bactrian just blow my mind

@andres6868 3 года назад

"the last independent greek state in the world was in India"...well, for most intents and purposes the Byzantine empire was a greek state

@vanmars5718 3 года назад

Yeah, but he means the last independent Greek state about that time, that period. The Roman Empire was a new chapter for the Greek history to enter

@nicmagtaan1132 3 года назад

i love how people say that roman empire was roman till constantinopole fall and greek whenever it suits the conversation

@lordwolfgangjosephuskaiser6778 3 года назад

Oh my God! The Greeks were so great and amazing.

@lordwolfgangjosephuskaiser6778 3 года назад

@Sacred Squadron SAS Yes

@FF-ch9nr 3 года назад

@Sacred Squadron SAS ehh, by the time ottomans arrived, byzantine was already on its deathbed due to corruption within the state, rebellions and rivalry with Sassanian empire. Ottomans just delivered the final blow

@zhaw4821 3 года назад

Still are

@UPHENOS 5 лет назад

Greek, Iranian, Indian and Chinese civilizations through their variour stages from the beginning of recorded history (and even farther back in time) are the greatest and most influential the world has ever witnessed!

@RasheedKhan-he6xx 3 года назад

You forget Ethiopean and Malian not to mention Mayan, Aztec and a little one on the side - Egyptian.

@camino341 3 года назад

I say more Greek and Persians than Indian and Chinese shaped the world religion , language and arts.

@daddyofabrhamaiccults9919 3 года назад

khosro mehrban Nah Indian religions are the second largest base on earth Indian philosophy is unmatched and even influenced greeks Phyrro states his philosophy was taken from buddhism

@ehsankhorasani_ 2 года назад

No Iraninan, it's actaully Persian. because about 45 percent of Afghanistan are also Persians.

@91minno 2 года назад

Nah mate, we the romans are ont of the most influential

@davidletasi3322 3 года назад

Greek ancient coins from the post Alexander the Great were still in use in Afganistan up until the 1970s.

@MZX64 5 лет назад

We have a city/province in Northern Afghanistan called Balkh (Bactria)

@snowmoon7385 5 лет назад

And bakhto..

@AfghanHearts 5 лет назад

And bactrians were Afghans and had nothing to do with greeks. (they only used phoenician alphabet and copied greek style royal coins.)

@metaxist 5 лет назад

@@AfghanHearts the Hellenic soldiers that lived there assimilated , married local people etc

@AfghanHearts 5 лет назад

@@metaxist nah, greeks were expelled or killed during the revolt in 323 bc. even Alexander left and gave up on Afghanistan. and you think his successors could stay there? plus, many of the greeks had Afghan ancestry. because during the persian achaemenid rule, many bactrians (Afghans) served in the persian army and had been stationed in greek states like thrace, athen and macedonia. during the greek rebellion, many of these Afghans joined the greeks and helped them against the persians. after the successful rebellion, the Afghan soldiers stayed in greece and married local greek women. their decendants got fully assimilated to greek culture. (maybe that's one reason why many greeks look like Afghans)

@dehechenka 4 года назад

AfghanHearts bactrians have nothing to Do with afghans, afghans aka Pashtuns r nomadic group while we know bactrians were not nomadic but settled, today’s tajiks are persianised bactrians

@apollohellen9018 5 лет назад

What annoys me is that a bulgarian speaking country is called Macedonian since 1991 appropriating ancient greek history and symbols. Ancient macedonians and modern macedonians spoke and still speak greek (inhabiting in nothern Greece which is the location of ancient Macedonia) shouldn't be confused with Fyrom so called Macedonians who actually are ethnically and linguistically Bulgarians.

@guerguistoyanov137 4 года назад

We know that....and your "slavianoglosa elinas" are Bulgarians too.

@suel2584 4 года назад

@zerpashmal I agree the classical greeks were actually from farther north in europe

@Scott89878 4 года назад

I don't think you understand how genealogy works. If you are European, then, in the year 800, everyone who had descendants, is your ancestor in Europe. This includes Germanic peoples. This ends up meaning that everyone who had descendants in ancient Greek, Rome, and even ancient Egypt, are ancestral to the peoples of Northern Europe too. It's just that their DNA is a smaller percentage, but the fact still remains, if you went back in time to ancient Greece and killed someone, you wouldn't exist in the present.

@factorygirl2010 4 года назад

zerpashmal so who then are the descendants of the Ancient Greeks?

@igorspasov2147 4 года назад

@@imperator9767 hehehe you are very funny guy... please can you show any single evidence where word Greek can be seen in any ancient artefact?

@turnerh.7291 5 лет назад

So Buddhism was influenced by Greek culture? Did I interpret that correctly? I learn so much from this channel!

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Yep! Thank you!

@davyroger3773 5 лет назад

Stocism is similar to Buddhism when you think about it

@skyworm8006 5 лет назад

Not really. Outside of a tradition of statues, which never had any Greek-style influence. The only ones that did were by that Greek culture. That's about it. Humanoid statues in Buddhism would depict many different figures in many cultures, so the artstyle, techniques, and sensibilities are all dependent on those contexts. None were influenced by Greek-style, however. There are many gods and other deities in various forms of Buddhism. Most likely those Greek Buddhists also remained polytheistic.

@TathD 5 лет назад

More like the Greeks in the area were influenced by Buddhism. Menander himself was a famous convert. What's concerning is that this is one step away from claiming Buddhism owes its global influence to ancient Greeks.

@DarkArtistKaiser 5 лет назад

@@TathD Almost. The only shame is that it didn't last too long at least in the western parts. Though who knows, perhaps the Buddhas name simply changed to something more local, his story retold in a different way, and it becoming one of the most influential religions in the world.

@liger6845 11 месяцев назад

Greek kingdom of Bactria.

@mariosathens1 5 лет назад

ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΒΑΚΤΡΙΑΝΗΣ Kingdom of Bactria

@Daradajee 5 лет назад

The only remaining cultural influence of these Hellenistic kingdoms is the Chitral hat or Pakol which is a modern version of the ancient Macedonian Kausia. It is now very popular in Afghanistan and Pakistan and among Jihadists the world over.

@Daradajee 5 лет назад

Saguntum-Iberian-Greek Konstantinopoli, The hat is all that remains. Even genetically there is no trace of the Greeks among the local population, it is as if they vanished into thin air leaving only their hats behind.

@Daradajee 5 лет назад

Eli Odum The fair skin and light eyes come from the original Indo-European settlers and countless later Steppe peoples like the Scythians and Hephthalites who invaded Northwest India over hundreds of years.

@dieselface1 5 лет назад

@@jeck988 most Greek people today and in Antiquity according to scholars do not have blue or green eyes. That's not to say that they were uncommon, but the majority still would have had brown eyes. Also I don't know about blue eyes, but I'm pretty sure that green eyes occur naturally among many Western Asian and Central Asian peoples

@Erminestreet 5 лет назад

Eli Odum have you visited Greece? Most Greeks are typical Mediterranean people, olive skinned and brown eyed

@Erminestreet 5 лет назад

Daradajee fair skin did not originate in nomadic Indo-Europeans lol (in fact linguistics and population genetics are 2 different things). Fair skin appeared first in settled agrarian population in Fertile Crescent in the Middle East because of change of diet (cereals). These ancient people spread their technology and genes as they travelled to different corners of the world. We have no idea what language they spoke and it really doesn’t even matter.

@MeoVatosLocos 5 лет назад

Damn if only islam wasn't introduced in these regions it would be a little better and more civilized.

@nomana.zuberi4600 5 лет назад

You daft fool, some of the greatest Empires of the past 1000 years were Muslim and grew up in these regions. This video just shows that complete political and cultural domination of Eastern lands has always been a favorite pastime of the west. this was nothing more than a pathetic colonial project of its time. The greeks founded a 200 year colony in India and many thousands of years later the British did the same. Your arrogance is astonishing and your ignorance is simply disturbing.

@dylan2478 4 года назад

Even I, as a Flemish person who lives in Belgium, am 3% Greek

@dylan2478 3 года назад

@V C haha danku! En ik vind u profielfoto mooi (:

@theodorospadelidis6537 3 года назад

@@dylan2478 I have a grecoturkish friendship discord server name is Πόντος karadeniz union search it on google you will find many results

@Bandit_1foe 5 лет назад

Greek kings were better than islamic conquerers...atleast they dont destroy others cultures

@sayakchoudhury9711 5 лет назад

The king Menander supposedly converted to Buddhism after a question answer session with the Buddhist monk Nagasena, this whole session has been written down in Pali and is known as the Milinda Panha ( Milinda is the Indian pronunciation of Minander, it literally means Milinda questions)

@matlo4941 3 года назад

Macedonia always Greece

@_.belladonna_ 2 года назад

This makes me so happy, I'm Pakistani and whenever I tell people that the greeks conquered south and central asia no one believes it. And when I went back there you can still see the imprints that the greeks had left are still present.

@konstantinoskotsomytis2544 5 лет назад

Where are the "make Afghanistan great again" comments?

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Some other channel? :-)

@konstantinoskotsomytis2544 5 лет назад

@@KingsandGenerals King and generals = the best channel... and the best comment section ;)

@persianguy7298 5 лет назад

There Is Khorasan Afghanistan is Fake Name Khorasan means Land of Eastran Sun

@Sulimanho 5 лет назад

@@persianguy7298 shut up.

@ramspabarorr8893 5 лет назад

Make it great by change it to Greek state ? No . Thanks . Greeks are responsible for destroying other regions ' languages by imposing their Greek language. Afghanistan and Tajikstan have already great culture. God bless Sogodians - Scythians ( Modern Pashtun people) . THIS IS PARTHIA

@erichusayn 5 лет назад

Never thought about the Greek influence on Buddhism. Very interesting. Thank you.

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Thanks for watching!

@justgamesaaron7968 5 лет назад

@@KingsandGenerals shame on you

@justgamesaaron7968 5 лет назад

Eric the truth is greeks were more influenced by persian mythology but yet old garbage lies come out

@Shibestrike 5 лет назад

They didn’t really influence it. What was popular Greek philosophy was influenced by the Iranic peoples, which had already began in the Bactrian area 1300+ years earlier with the Zoroastrian and Vedic religions. It’s kind of them having learned from the Persians over hundreds of years in their empire, and then coming to their primary location of philosophy and telling them about it. Mahayana = Mazdayasna (Zoroastrian) It went from ascetic and world-denying to world-accepting. When all is said and done, the Iranic peoples created basically every religion in Asia. Even the Mongols had Qormusta Tengri from Ahura Mazda, Zoroastrian god and claimed one of their three mothers was a Scythian (also Zoroastrian mostly).

@justgamesaaron7968 5 лет назад

@@Shibestrike you know this bactrian greeks have came to india not the greeks from Europe this greco bactrians are greeks!

@dimitrisvasileiou7020 5 лет назад

Γειά σου ρε πατρίδα μου. ..Ιερα Αιωνία Ελλάς

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

Mήν υπερηφανεύεσαι πολύ με ξένα αρχήδια.Ιλλυρίοι ήταν όλοι οι πρόγωνοι σου-Αρβανίτες στην μοντέρνα ιστορία σου!!

@JV-kd7rp 4 года назад

@@guritarasi8732 Βγες από την Αλβανία μπας και μάθεις και τίποτα σωστό. Επίσης, μίλα αγγλικά, αφού ελληνικά ξεκάθαρα δεν ξέρεις.

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

@@JV-kd7rp Nωμίζω πώς εσύ έχεις εγκλωβιστεί λόγο κορονοιού στην Ελλάδα και δέν ξέρεις τί σου γίνεται. Τα Ελληνικά σου είναι τα Ιλλυριακά ονομαζόμενα ώς"Ελληνικά" απο την Αιολική διάλεκτο των Θεσσαλών. Τα Νέα Ελληνικά προέρχονται απο τα Ιλλυριακά-Αλβανικά ώς η μόνη γλώσσα αληθεινή που έχει διασωθεί μέχρι και σήμερα άθηκτη.

@Πάσσαρης-δ8η 4 года назад

@@guritarasi8732 lol

@vk3567 3 года назад

@@guritarasi8732 Φερε μας λιγο απο αυτο που φουμαρετε εκει πανω...

@ΓιώργοςΜπ-ρ6ω 3 года назад

Alexander the Great was Greek

@heastoida8993 3 года назад

Nah he was from macedon but believed in the same gods so the culture was nearly the same as the greek culture.. its like if you say austria and germany is the same but actually there is a big difference.. and austrian people hate if someone says that.. me to.. (i'm from austria to ^^ )

@dimitriskouimtsidis2839 3 года назад

@@heastoida8993 it's nothing like that. It's like saying Athenians and Greeks are the same, or Spartans and Greeks. Simple really. Macedonians believed in the same Gods, spoke the same language and most importantly of all, took part in the Olympic Games, something only Greeks could do.

@heastoida8993 3 года назад

Macedonians didnt actually speak the same language.. it is said that they spoke greek but with an dialect and the greek could often not understand their language.. thats also the reason why the greeks saw macedonians as barbarians.. people were often categoriced as barbarians when they couldnt understand their language and had a different culture.. macedonia also had a different politic systhem, they were ruled by a king, while the greeks had a democracy.. (but not all greeks, sparta also were ruled by a king)

@dimitriskouimtsidis2839 3 года назад

@@heastoida8993 Dialects occur due to geography and it happens everywhere, doesn't make someone any less English or any less Greek in this case. And as you said, numerous other Greek states had Kings, democracy wasn't that common (apart from Athens obviously)

@heastoida8993 3 года назад

@@apostolosmate3361 i dont really understand whats wrong about what i said? I just said, that macedonians didnt speak normal greek.. It is said that they spoke greek, but with a strong dialect or even a completely different language wich sounded a bit like greek. They actually saw themselves as greeks to.. And from what i heard, the macedonians had a different culture as well.. and i know that they believed in the same gods but that doesnt make them greek at all.. even the greek saw Them as barbarians because of the reason, i just mentioned bevore. I just said the same stuff bevore actually.. And why did you say, austrians are Ignorant? Do you know every austrian citizen personally? And what does that have anything to do with our debate about ancient macedonia? Pls dont forget, if you're debating online in a comment section, never insult Others.. if you do so, its just a proof that you take everything personally and behaive linke a Kid my friend..

@VladTevez 5 лет назад

Well done! Kudos!

@MakisHMMY 5 лет назад

Γεια σου ευεργέτη

@VladTevez 5 лет назад

@@MakisHMMY Χαίρε!

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Thanks!

@drswag0076 4 года назад

Greeks: builds a Hellenic kingdom in Afghanistan the Taliban: hold up

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

Wasn't the"Greeks" but the Illyrian!!

@drswag0076 4 года назад

@@guritarasi8732 pardon?

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

@@drswag0076 The name"Greeks" is modern. In the ancient time were Illyrians. Alexander the Great was Epirotan-Illyrian and have not to do with today Greeks!!

@drswag0076 4 года назад

@@guritarasi8732 never heard of Epirotan i thought Alexander was from Macedonia whose modern people are different from his time.

@vk3567 4 года назад

@@drswag0076 And i forgot to mention that he even burnt the capital of Persia,Persepolis to avenge the persian invasion of greece and the burning of athenian temples of acropolis 150 years earlier.

@dibyendupaul1572 3 года назад

All the ancient Hindu temples surviving till today in India are products of Greek influence. Vedic Hindu culture & texts never had figures & figurines of gods & goddesses, only descriptions. Nor did the Vedic Hindu had any custom of worshipping the god inside an ornate building which we call a temple or church or a mosque, we Hindus are basically worshippers of nature! the Buddha himself did not patronize or had his figure/ face crafted! They`re all direct influences of the Greek culture.

@DavideMontingelliOfficial 5 лет назад

The legacy of a young man who changed the world...Congrats! ❤

@realpolitics527 5 лет назад

@Mr Seboss you need to read more history!

@TheRagingStorm98 5 лет назад

@Mr Seboss it all starts with a man named Alexander

@leonzoful 5 лет назад

@Mr Seboss simple dude. Drive by his ambition, he led an army to the edge of the world founding cities on his way leaving Greek culture everywhere he was. Of course, the successors where the ones who hellenized the most, but without Alexander that would never happened.

@DavideMontingelliOfficial 5 лет назад

@Mr Seboss Take a history book. Open it. Read it. More simple than continue to ask stupid questions.

@DavideMontingelliOfficial 5 лет назад

@Mr Seboss with this comment you prove that all people up who didnt respond you make the right decision.

@Mark-hd5vz 5 лет назад

Greeks created a great Greek empire in Asia

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

The ancient people wasn't"Greeks" but Illyrian!!

@weathernewsofthrace1772 4 года назад

@@guritarasi8732 nice joke...

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

@@weathernewsofthrace1772 It's the only true in the Earth!!

@weathernewsofthrace1772 4 года назад

@@guritarasi8732 the Albanian true 🤣🤣🤣

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

@@weathernewsofthrace1772 What does mean"Greek" in your language?🤣🤣🤣 Albanian true it's the only real true in the Earth which you and slavs stoled it from them!!

@ΔημήτρηςΗλιάτορας 5 лет назад

Great Video!!!!I LOVED IT IMMEDIATELY!!! I just puti in Greek subtitles.

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Appreciate the subtitles- they help a lot!

@ΔημήτρηςΗλιάτορας 5 лет назад

@@KingsandGenerals i will continue to help you

@Freawulf 5 лет назад

@@ΔημήτρηςΗλιάτορας Ευχαριστούμε πολύ! Δεν πρόλαβα να το δω όλο ακόμα, αλλά αν θες διόρθωσε το "unprecedented" σε "πρωτοφανή", ή "άνευ προηγουμένου" κάπου μετά το 1:05... Αν τύχει να βρω κάτι άλλο, θα το γράψω εδώ. Δυστυχώς το YT έχει καταργήσει τα p.m. πλέον... :-/

@ΔημήτρηςΗλιάτορας 5 лет назад

Ευχαριστώ για τα καλά σου λόγια και ότι το διόρθωσα. @@Freawulf

@xnikolasbs2230 5 лет назад

Να σε καλά ρε φίλε. Τώρα μπορώ να το δείξω στην οικογένεια μου που δεν ξέρει καλά αγγλικά.

@doneuplikeakipper6512 3 года назад

Whos watching this after the Taliban takeover?

@unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 лет назад

The Greeks were great warriors.

@giannisg3387 5 лет назад

Still are.

@charlesbrooks94 5 лет назад

@Anand the godtuber ok, to be fair, the ottomans were on top of their shit and didn't really underestimate anyone they fought against, and if they did, they learned from that mistake the next go round, unlike the Achaemenids.

@cv4809 5 лет назад

@Anand the godtuber They actually do brag about it,Turkish nationalists won't shut up their mouths bragging about how great conquerors they were

@mikeinvader9 5 лет назад

@Anand the godtuber They did not conquer persia however they conquered an islamic country. Persia was not arabs or followed islam nor were they modern iranians.Modern iranians are indians. The turko mongols just took over arab living space,joined them under the banner of islam and together tried to take over the west

@brazilianman92 5 лет назад

@@giannisg3387 Not even! Greece is a tiny bankrupt nation and its military hasn't had great victories in recent generations. Its always been subjected by other nations.

@culiusjaesar 5 лет назад

Hello from Hellas Kings and Generals

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Hey!

@thequantitychannel1299 5 лет назад

Hello from Bulgaria and Macedonia.Ops meant only Bulgaria!

@nilubensonofnimruzir1637 5 лет назад

Look it's my boy Eren.

@anorthedge4422 3 года назад

There weren't many Greeks in Bactria (and even less in India) and they didn't last very long, before disappearing into the mists of history, but there are quite a number of western scholars who insist on endlessly discussing the subject, and ignoring the long-term local history of the region. I don't even agree with the idea of the influence of Hellenistic art on Gandhara. It was more just western, i.e. western Asian, Mesopotamian and Iranian.

@macedoniatheancientgreekki2388 2 года назад

Ancient Greek Macedonian Kingdom

@anthonykatsivalis224 4 года назад

I’m proud of my people 🇬🇷✊

@V-man117 2 года назад

As a Greek I love my Indian brothers. We two have been enriching the world with our majestic civilizations for thousands of years

@katakouzinos 2 года назад

Τι πίνεις και δεν μας δίνεις?

@nydabeats 5 лет назад

never have I learned so much in a short documentary.... this answers so many questions I had

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Thanks for watching!

@savage7882 5 лет назад

Notice how all of alexander's cities have greek names.

@elhamhemat572 4 года назад

you mean by literally naming them Alexandria?

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

Αlexander is not Greek name but Illyrian-Albanian name!!

@savage7882 4 года назад

@@guritarasi8732 Okay then, what is the etymology of alexander in albanian?

@guritarasi8732 4 года назад

@@savage7882 Alexander=A le x ander and A le x a nder Which mean"The man who came as honorable dream"!! XΞ=ksi=k' si (Τάξι or Taxi) A le k' si ander A le k' si a nder

@savage7882 4 года назад

@@guritarasi8732 That has no lingual consistency whatsoever and im betting its not even a common albanian name. It has been a common greek name for thousands of years however. The name Alexander is derived from the Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros; 'Defender of the people', 'Defending men', or 'Protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb ἀλέξειν (aléxein; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun ἀνήρ (anḗr, genitive: ἀνδρός, andrós; meaning 'man'). It is derived from mycaenean greek. Much farther down and much more ancient than illyria itself. Nice try tho.

@fm-gamer5617 3 года назад

I think a lot of Afghan, Pakistan and Indian people have Greek dna in them from this times.

@fm-gamer5617 3 года назад

@Ziezi The First Bulgarians we’re a central Asian tribe (Turks). Albanians are the descendants of the ancient Illyrians. I’m speaking about the Hellenes.

@gogomass247 3 года назад

@@fm-gamer5617 ILLYRIANS WERE GREEKS.ALBANIARS WERE UIGURS

@thrakiamaria 5 лет назад

The famous city in south Afghanistan, Kandahar means Alexandreia

@AfghanHearts 5 лет назад

No. It was named after the ancient region "gandhara", which was native bactrian land in modern day north western pakistan. And the. City existed with that name before alexander was evem born

@dineshdevjibishnoi 4 года назад

@@AfghanHearts 1200 years ??? 🤔🤔 Nope. Just 500 years or less until marathas kicked them out. And yeah Sher shah Suri , an Afghan who wanted to rule India was killed brutally by Hindu rajputs of bundelkhand. And don't fucking bring religion into discussion while talking about India because India is a secular country with over 250 million Muslims, 20 million sikhs, 15 million Buddhists, 30 millions jains co-existing. Regarding toilets, India is most(over 90%) is open defecation free as of 2019

@dineshdevjibishnoi 4 года назад

@Draugr no

@dineshdevjibishnoi 4 года назад

@Draugr here in India he is known as Alekshendra

@allenvikramchochinov5940 5 лет назад

That was great,

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Thanks :-)

@macedonomachospavlosmelas6115 3 года назад

Great Greek empire

@ReviveHF 5 лет назад

This magnificent Greek Kingdom was documented by the Chinese during the Han Dynasty, when an Chinese ambassador called Zhang Qian（張騫）arrived at Bactria in order to seek Allies to fight against Xiongnu and trade agreements, unfortunately Bactria was weakened and subjugated by Yuezhi tribe（月氏）.

@KingsandGenerals 5 лет назад

Yeah, we will cover it in the next episode :-)

@bloodfiredrake7259 5 лет назад

Yuezhi would bring an even greater hellenic state.The Kushans the powerful Pakistani state ever in History other then the modern republic.

@matikhorasani3842 5 лет назад

@@bloodfiredrake7259The Kushans were based in modern day Afghanistan. Kapisa was their capital and that's where they lived.

@l.p.8041 5 лет назад

Greeks are simply... The Best.

@alechamid235 4 года назад

I love to eat "Gyros"

@moonlightbunny7590 4 года назад

Nope

@digenhsakritas1337 4 года назад

💓♥️♥️♥️🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

@lst141 3 года назад

Were the.... it’s called the fall of civilizations...

@Thomas-ty5ol 3 года назад

@@moonlightbunny7590 Your jealousy is in an another fucking level.

@valorwarrior7628 5 лет назад

and the Kingdom states were named Baktria and Sogdiana, they were the first Greeks to have established trading relationships with Mauryan India and Qin China through the establishment of the Silk Road until eventually, the Silk trade reached Rome and elsewhere.

@maaaku 5 лет назад

@Alek Mitev Whoever knows the Greek language and traditions is Greek so they were.

@maaaku 5 лет назад

@Alek Mitev Said the non Greek. My ancient ancestors were saying that so they ment it and i still believe it. There is no pure dna and it was the same back then. Anyone can become Greek and im already honored to be one.

@athanasiosbairlis5563 5 лет назад

@PaMak: (sorry for intervennting): But, if you can speak Greek, behave as Greek (custums etc). you are "seen" GREEK. The DNA is NOT decisive factor for nationality or citizenship. (that is for the "purists" and nationalist with "identity crisis") Giannis Antetokunmpo is GREEK super star basket-ball plyer (#34 Milwakee Bucks), and very GREEK and black ! waving He's proud Greek, speaks Greek (like mine) and sings the National anthem of Greece. I have myself 2 nationalities, without DNA test, but well language ! Alexander himself, said that: everyone of the conquered folks, if has Greek education (language) will have the same rights with all Greeks. He made schools allover the Empire's centers, teaching Greek culture. The merchats travelled all the way from India-China and from Greece to Africa..the International language (Ligua Franca) was...Greek. The language of the Bible is Greek too!

@maaaku 5 лет назад

@@athanasiosbairlis5563 Εμένα τι μου το λες αυτό; Το ξέρω.

@maaaku 5 лет назад

@Alek Mitev By my logic you have no logic because i know some japanese words that doesnt mean that i know how to speak Japanese. The ancient Greeks were saying that we dont need an unknown guy from some country to tell us who is Greek or not. I dont care about the DNA because no DNA is clean. An example of what im saying is Yannis Antetokoumpo (as a guy said above) who is black but fully Greek in everything that makes him Greek i dont care about the DNA.

@wewuzirlyriliansandshiiit6123 3 года назад

Don't watch the video. Read the comments instead. Preferably from Albanians and FYROMians. Entertainment guaranteed *MACEDONIA® IS GREECE ONLY*

@eisarkhan9262 4 года назад

I'm a pashtun from but I study in UK so when I meet people from other country majority of them say I'm Eastern Europeon

@MrRahman220 3 года назад

Becterians were not pashtuns. The tajiks of afghanistan are the becterians.

@AK-dd9od 3 года назад

Why would someone claim to be Eastern European when they are not?

@jostnamane3951 4 месяца назад

@@AK-dd9od he did not claim to be Eastern European. People claimed that he looks Eastern European.

@ahmadnisar2705 5 лет назад

Interestingly enough, the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, in his famous rock/pillar edicts across north-central and northwest India, consistently mentions a large population of Greeks in his empire who converted to Buddhism, even before the expansion of the Greco-Bactrians: “Now it is conquest by Dhamma that Beloved-of-the-Gods considers to be the best conquest. And it (conquest by Dhamma) has been won here, on the borders, even six hundred yojanas away, where the Greek king Antiochos rules, beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni. Here in the king's domain among the Greeks, the Kambojas, the Nabhakas, the Nabhapamkits, the Bhojas, the Pitinikas, the Andhras and the Palidas, everywhere people are following Beloved-of-the-Gods' instructions in Dhamma.” Also, further evidence to support the spread of Greco-Buddhism along the Silk Road can be seen in the various burial sites in ancient Silk Road oases in western China (Xinjiang), where the local inhabitants buried themselves with textiles adorned with Hellenistic and Iranian artistic/mythological motifs, probably made in Bactria.

@eurosensazion 5 лет назад

I live in Toronto and big Indian community. But I see some Indians with blue eyes and unique lighter skin tonnes and more European in look than Indian. For sure like all cultures throughout time if there was a large presence of Greeks in the North Eastern areas there is people today who are mixed genetically. I had in school some beautiful tall Indian girls with blue eyes and lighter skin. Very exotic.

@otomackena7610 5 лет назад

@@eurosensazion Thats not because of that, that for different reason because the Indian population is mix of two ancient races ASI and ANI of which ANI mostly comes from the central Asian steppes ASI from the Indus civilisation which possibly related Elamites. Most Indians are 50% ASI and 50% ANI but sometimes some may have more of either.

@Ab_someone 5 лет назад

Fantastic videos! So the ancient Civilisation of Greece still lives on in the world's oldest living Civilisation mother India. Buddha Sharanam Gacchami, Dharmam Sharanam Gacchami, Sangam Sharanam Gacchami 🙏. Hara Hara Mahadeva

@ntkkvolos 3 года назад

Any Albanians here claiming these people were Albanians? Their schools teach them so! It is sort of freaky!

@georgeskanderbeg3242 3 года назад

What?

@ntkkvolos 3 года назад

@Ricky Lindon 😂

@Peterkonto 3 года назад

Yeah right if the illyrians spoke todays Albanian language then the British speak Japanese..

@georgeskanderbeg3242 3 года назад

@@Peterkonto where do you think Albanian comes from?

@kdakrusha804 5 лет назад

People don't know the Greeks had Europe colonized before it was recorded. The golden age of Greece.

@ericconnor8251 5 лет назад

...before it was recorded? What? In either case, yes, the Greeks colonized large parts of Europe centuries before the Roman Republic conquered the Mediterranean world. That includes Archaic and Classical Greek colonies established in what are now Bulgaria, Albania, Ukraine, Russia, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Spain, and France. That also does not include the Greek colonies in what are now Libya, Egypt, and Turkey, all before Alexander the Great!

@kdakrusha804 5 лет назад

@@ericconnor8251 How much ADD MEDICATIONS did you take? Meaning the greeks had colonies before it was written down about. Why would i make a list of specifics on a mere comment?

@viraloracle5151 5 лет назад

Hellens got deported into Bactria by the Persians (see the video) they not colonized bactria.

@ericconnor8251 5 лет назад

@@kdakrusha804 Well aren't you a little prick for no reason. Sounds like you just don't want to defend your statement, which still doesn't make any logical sense unless we're talking about archaeological sites that were never written about in Greek literature. There are some, but they are obscure and date to the Archaic period when the Greeks were at least recording things, if not in the model of Herodotus.

@ericconnor8251 5 лет назад

@@viraloracle5151 Yes, many Greeks were deported there by the Achaemenid Persians before the conquests of Alexander the Great, but Alexander also brought a bunch of Macedonians and Greeks with him to Bactria. Some of his soldiers settled down there, started families by marrying local women. Call it what you want, but I call that colonization, even if limited demographically.

@nermainmerl3284 5 лет назад

4:30 So, greeks that sought resistance to any foreign ruler were sent to breed with locals that shared the same independent ideal and were also hellenized

@matikhorasani3842 5 лет назад

Not sure what the Persians were thinking while moving a people who revolted to foreign rule to a land where almost all tribes are ferocious and independent as fuck... they were probably hoping the two would wipe each other out, but instead ended up mixing 😂

@nermainmerl3284 5 лет назад

@@matikhorasani3842 Well think it that way, if you have 30.000 people that are resistant to your rule, first you move them to a place as far as possible from their own kin in order to lose their ties with their people, so you wont lose it to any sort of independence. Then move them to a place favorable for your forces to subdue them any time. Probably it was best for them to have 1 front of revolt and not 100 different rebellions like those in rome total war game xD. And if they tried to revolt, they would just kill them all.I didn't think it that way tho, killing each other xD, they probably acted as prisoners in a jail

@stevenpereira222 3 года назад

Also Indian Mythology like the Greek has a multitude of Gods led by the " king of Gods" who is also a God of thunder.

@wandererinthedust276 5 лет назад

I'm from Afghanistan. It's sad to see the pitiful state of my country today. Afghanistan has always been not just the crossroads of the different regions, but a welcoming home to peoples from around the world. My own ancestors were Israelites and later Arabs who came as captives and later conquerors. But you pay a high price when you are at the center of everything... Especially in the Mongol invasions, most of the population was slaughtered. Still, even the Turks and Mongols were welcomed. But how the fuck do you survive America and USSR fighting a 10 year long battle on your soil? And don't even get me started on Wahabism... So today, Afghans, descendants of Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Israelites, Turks, Mongols, Indians, are reviled the world over as savages, our country lays in ruins, and the only time you hear about us in the news is because of a terrorist attack on our soil or because some low life trying the same abroad. Millions of us are refugees, and millions more are internally displaced. History is fucking cruel. Maybe in another 500 years, things will be better. Until then, I guess I'll have to shed bitter tears over our better days and work to reverse the shit that's happening now.

@jibril7940 5 лет назад

Afghanistan wasn’t always a desert terrain, it was once lush with trees actually, 90% of the trees have been destroyed since 1978

@vijayafernando1 5 лет назад

Even today Afghanistan is one of the countries with the lowest debt to GDP ratios in the world.usa on the other hand has 260% more debt than GDP.

@joshscott5213 5 лет назад

I think the defining decision of its fate was after, the war to end all wars

@JananMD 5 лет назад

@@zerosaber257 we lost jungles in wars between Russia

@TheRedKing247 5 лет назад

@@vijayafernando1 That's just... false. The US National Debt is 22 Trillion. The US GDP is 19.39 Trillion. That's a debt ration of about 113% the GDP, which is actually a good thing. A Debt-GDP percentage of somewhere between 60%-120% is ideal as it means your government is actually spending money on doing stuff, and capitalism is entirely based on spending money.

@Rickuo 5 лет назад

@@JananMD Well, then it's high time to plant some trees, right? Sadly, you're occupied with fighting crazy fundamentalists who likely take over again. Like in all Islamic countries Islam is holding you back and you don't even want to acknowledge it, because you have been taught that even questioning Islam is a sin. Think about it: why would questioning Islam be a sin? Answer: because Islam is actually very stupid. The Qur'an is full of contradictions and horrible teachings and the first Muslims including Muhammad were some of the most horrible people (Mass murderers, rapists, slavers) the world has ever known.

@farhanhyder7304 5 лет назад

Wonderful video. I never knew Greeks and Buddhists lived together and influenced eachother. Amazing work. Yet another great video.

@ΑπελΚαλλιεΡαΧαιρε 5 лет назад

There were Greek Buddhists kings also

@GreaterAfghanistanMovement 2 года назад

Its honestly debatable how much of Afghanistan the Greco-Bactrians ruled, reading the works of Strabo and Justin, its clear they never ruled it fully or only controlled portions of the urban areas while countryside may have been left unconquered. Most of the Greek kings had been fighting the Sakas, Parthians, Pactyans and even native Bactrians for centuries in control for Bactria so they were exhausted. It seems like the Kushans finally did the job and liberted the country of foreign influence by resorting Iranian culture back.

@GreaterAfghanistanMovement 2 года назад

@Khushal Singh Maurya No they didn't, the Kushans were Iranic not Indians by any means.

@GreaterAfghanistanMovement 2 года назад

@Khushal Singh Maurya Kingdom of Kothan being founded by Indians is a myth. The people there spoke Saka, an Iranic language.

@GreaterAfghanistanMovement Год назад

@Rajnasya Cope. They were Iranic and they ruled over your ancestors. Aryan/Pashtuns are the true rulers of India.

@Jittleyutehandles 6 месяцев назад

They came from outside Afghanistan . The Greeks and scythians conquered that region as did the kushans . They were not liberators lmao they adopted greco bactrian customs

@neutralfellow9736 5 лет назад

Interestingly, the influence of Bactria lasts to this day, as the seal of the Bank of Afganistan today features Eucratides I ; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Afghanistan_Bank en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucratides_I

@karimavnighobadi4770 5 лет назад

The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was, along with the Indo-Greek Kingdom , the easternmost part of the Greek world, covering Bactria and Sogdiana in Central Asia from 250 to 125 BC. It was centered on the north of present-day Afghanistan. The expansion of the Greco-Bactrians into present-day eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan from 180 BC established the Indo-Greek Kingdom, which was to last until around AD 10.

@jayeshpatel3704 4 года назад

Small part

@ub3rfr3nzy94 4 года назад

@Ganda Bacha Because it lies within Afghanistans borders and the descendants of Bactria are part of the modern afghan population. There is a large Tajik minority in Afghanistan and Bactria sat between those two countries.

@tajik2595 4 года назад

@Ganda Bacha Pashtuns Afghans are not even native to the land go look up to history u Jews came from Israel and Pakistan

@afnan9356 3 года назад

@@tajik2595 Pashtun and tajiks both are iranic , they both descended from bactrian people ( who were Persians ) , but bactrian language is evolved into pashto this evolution happens because of wide spread of new persian and arabic language after this tajiks adopted persian language fully but pashtun adopted partially and by this the bactrian language changed into pashtun . So tajiks and pashtuns are brother 🇦🇫💥🇹🇯