Seleukos I Nikator, assassinated in 281 BCE 

Beautiful thumbnail, have you uploaded it somewhere else?

@@nikolaytsankov9066 I have not and tbh I think the file was on an account that got deleted sadly. The idea you are interested means a lot though

42 years as a Successor is an eternity.

Thersites the Historian 42 years as a successor was a feat indeed, especially since the majority if not all those years were spent in constant warfare. A testament to the man’s physical and mental stamina. Seleukos I Nikator was a warrior par excellence. Very impressive man.

This is more likely and mistake on the indian behalf. It was greek culture that spread not Macedonian. "Hellenization"

But he was a Slav Albanian !!1

@@midweekcentaur1050 no ,it was greek

Greek king? There were about 5 other greek kings lol. The puranas were being revised as recent as 19th century and which is why and none of it's original manuscript survive.

what does your body have to do with Seleukos?

Is that Nintendo reference?

I personally like this particular duration for a lecture. If you are looking for a much longer ones i would suggest Schwehrpunkt. He is very detail oriented.

The first woke leader of a nation! Awesome!!

The reason why they survived the longest was because they were the furthest from Rome 😁

@@kuko331 Hellenism didn't seem to have that problem. I fact it subsumed Roman culture. Latin culture would not have lasted in the East if it wasn't for the Greek establishments already set in place when they came about.

As eloquent as that sounds, no, that's not the reality. For example, Ptolemy and his successors created a rift between the ever-increasing population of Greeks and native Egyptians.

Robby House it is said with almost complete certainty that Seleukos’ elephants were the weakest/oldest 500 in the Mauryan Army. The 100 not present likley were exhausted by the match to the west like Darius’ elephants at Gaugamela, died in the southern Caucasus where Seleukos took them seeing how Hannibal lost most of his in the alps, or simply the numbers were wrong. Seleukos has no reason to garrison the east with elephants as it had been secured and the only hostile border in scythia would be better manned with infantry and light cavalry rather than slow elephants. This explains toon also makes me believe the 100 elephants in front of the army were the best in his army while the 300 in reserve were exhausted and weakened. This is why Seleukos did not simply charge all 500 in the beginning as a charge of 500 elephants would have decimated Antigonus’ infantry, most of which were too young to have fought in India.

Hello Sir, here for battle. I couldn't get 300 elephants... so I brought 400!

Hahahaha

The most complete source is Diodorus Siculus, so I'd start there. Justin and Appian are more spotty in their coverage of this topic.

@@ThersitestheHistorian Thanks. I really should get myself a copy of Appian as I just read the one at uni.

He was making a sacrifice to a place Jason and the argonauts have traveled to and was distracted and was assassinated by a political refugee he was sheltering

I think the macabean kingdom

I made this. I intended for that to be Nabateans whose capital was Petra. Their kingdom existed at this time with Demetrius Fighting against them

The Nabateans Arab kingdom

@@78yoda7800 wrong Semitic kingdom dude the macabean were Jewish

And Ptolemy to Egypt, Peithons to Media, Peucestus to Persia, Eumenes in cappadocia, Assandor in Caria and stasanor in Central Asia. As the war went on these individuals would sometimes attempt to seize power (Peithons and Antigonus) or would be captured and made into subordinates and the provinces such as Persia being made to assist in Seleucid wars under a Seleucid selected satrap.

It was large, fertile, populous, and had cities which lay astride trade routes connecting India and the rest of the Middle East.

@@ThersitestheHistorian I thought the center of the Achaemenids was Mesopotamia from an economic and political perspective, I also heard that the Persian plateau was not much urbanized until the early middle ages. I guess Media is still bigger than most Satrapies so contains more people overall, but its per capita wealth shouldn't be exceptionally high if what I heard is indeed true.

Fake news media is strong since antiquity. Make Parthia Great Again.

@@Shreendg Wot

Yes but also dude spent 60-70% of his life in Asia

Buddy is spouting utter nonsense. Selucus at that point was a ruler of small province and had around 20000 men. Son in law? Provide me one source that says his daughter was married off. His only recorded daughter was married to antigonous gonatuas. Those indian provinces were never under selucus's control. Smh

@@okenogamer Strabo and many others list the peace treaty event and contract of marriage with one of Seleucus' daughters to the Indian Emperor, India's first emperor iirc. Idk why he's saying "poor guy" he was the longest lived of all successors and one of the greatest and richest conquerors in history. To reach 80+ that wealthy and that powerful, nearly as powerful as Alexander is a series of incredible feats. Likely Seleucus wanted nothing to do with India, he never threw anywhere near his full strength at the subcontinent but rather wanted the hundreds of war elephants that he received by the same treaty with Maurya. It was likely most of the war elephants available in all of India. But still a great deal for the Maurya as he could focus on uniting everyone he wished within the subcontinent and Seleucus could focus back on his priorities. He was more experienced fighting against war elephants than any of Alexander's other generals and knew their value. They don't explain his tactical ability fully because he was given all these positions under Alexander and some of the earlier successors, admiral, temporary commander of the full force, etc.

@@dirksharp9876 the author uses the word which translates to "marriage Contract" considering selucus brought less than 25000 at ipsus yes it's unlikely he was in the perfect shape to fight against mauryans

Lmao no he didn't in fact the seleucid empire wasn't even all that hurt after their little war you lousy nationalist😂

Why did the Macedonians treat Greeks as not equal then?

I truly dont understand your need for this disticntion. It literally only uses more words. It doesnt mean anything different.

This is your Brain on Balkan Nationalism

​@@Christiaanwebbjust because a spartan was a greek that didn't mean he had to treat an athenian the same way 😅

​@@Jatischarthis isn't nationalism this is history ,the Macedonians spread greek and spoke greek for a reason