Yuezhi Migration and Kushan Empire - Nomads DOCUMENTARY 

Do we know anything about the origins of Yuezhi? I've read different theories, some very conflicting. Also, it would be a good idea if you could cover the relationships between Indo-European nomads (Sakas, Yuezhi, Goths) and Turko-Mongolic ones such as Xiongnu or the Huns from their first contact until the Middle Ages or even modern time in a series. Like always, Kudos to you guys.

@@peymanmostafaei6963 Thanks! The most popular assumption is that they were Iranic and spoke Eastern Iranian.

@@KingsandGenerals the yuezhi are thought to have come from Bactria 2000 BC and yuezhi means moon people. Indo aryans under the banner of chandravanshi or moon people according to Hindu Puranas and Ramayana come from Bactria or Bahli under queen/king Ila around the 2nd millennium BC. Connection of the moon people of Bactria?

@@KingsandGenerals Please make a video on how Buddhism and Hinduism spread to east and southeast asia or a video on ancient Indian philosophies and scientific studies.

@Kings and Generals the shātavāhana didn't controlled Kalinga. It was at that time ruled by mahāmeghabāhana dyanasty.

There are multiple sources for the maps. I think it is difficult to say what was its real territory, so we decided to show the possible largest extent.

It wasn’t that big. No evidence for Chorasmia rule, nor for the coastal part of Pakistan and surely not Sogdiana. It is not even the maximum supposed extent because there are sources for Xinjinag Kushan rule and even (from Rabatak inscription) Pataliputra. The main Kushan kingdom was Afghanistan, Mainly northern and easter Afghanistan, Gandhara, Mathura.

@@KingsandGenerals please do one on the sikh empire

When I saw the Timurid Empire lost complete control of Iran, I thought that it was too small to be viewed as an empire. But when I saw this video about the Kushan Empire, I quickly changed my mind because an empire that made entirely up from Central Asia and the northwestern portion of the Indian subcontinent like Kabulistan and the Punjub region is definitely not small at all.

I forgot it existed until recently

Sad that the Taliban consider themselves as Afghan nationalists and protectors of Afghan culture, but have caused so much destruction to the rich history of Afghanistan

@@tentathesane8032 They do not call themselves Nationalists lol, they instead have a Religious approach.

One of the statues was an idol and had to be destroyed. But the other was an icon so it was fine. But the talibans are dumb savages incapable of distinguish icon from idol.

That is Khoistanis not Khushanis.. Khoistan is part of Parwan .. Plus we have genetic test on people from the Khoistan and also Panjshir they score average for regular Pashtuns and Tajiks since Pashtuns and Tajiks score identification besides some Tajiks from northern Afghanistan have high East Asian admixture ..

@@persiansoundsAfg You are talking about the Turks and the Mongols

kabul was always easy to conqure, mongols, amaricans, soviets, alaxander, mughals, british and many more have conqured kabul very easily. Afghan cities are very easy to conqure it is the countryside that is hard to conqure, afghan villages are very self sufficient, remote and harsh and for people there war is just a tradition nothing out of normal.

"wealthy" ahem....

@@mohammedafsal1886 Not true lmao

@Kokoro Shimamura Nobody conquered us tho.

@Kokoro Shimamura Mongols lost their first ever war in Afghanistan in Parwan. I suggest you read up on the Battle of Parwan on Wikipedia. "Nomadic Central Asians" in ancient times were Iranic not Turkic and most of them originated from Afghanistan. Afghanistan is diverse because many people migrated there from neighboring regions as it was never ruled or colonized by any foreign power in history. Just like people migrated to Germany or USA from their homes to escape war and famine.

Yup.

Random Name stfu

@Peter D They both conquered your ancestors

@@The_Conqueeftador Mao sees sparrows eating grain* “So you have chosen extinction”

Oh God I'm CUMAAAAN

To some degree the yare returning to their roots in the past they often covered lesser known chapters of history

stories about Kanishka is very popular in India we have grown up hearing about how he was force behind the spread of Buddhism into the Orient from the Indian heartland

@@amargujjar5059 Best I could find on that was a while back (honestly I don't remember where) that they came either from northern Afghanistan or, more likely, the area above it where Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan meet. Around Samarkand or Dushanbe.

गौचर गुज्जर गौचरी गुज्जरी भेड़ 🐏 बकरी 🐐 भैंस 🐃 गाय 🐄 चराने वाले चरवाहा बकरवाल खानाबदोश ग्वाला गौचर गुज्जर शूद्र समाज के लोग जॉर्जिया से आए थे हून के साथ भारत में जाकर एनसीईआरटी का इतिहास का किताब पढ़ लेना ओके जाकर अपना डीएनए टेस्ट करवा ले सबको अपना बाप बना लेते हैं।

सम्राट कनिष्क कुषाण यूची जनजाति से थे वह एक बुद्धिस्ट सम्राट था वह चाइना से आया था गौचर गुज्जर भैंस 🐃🐃🐃 चोर गौचरी गुज्जरी बकरी 🐐🐐🐐 चोर इतिहास चोर सरनेम चोर सब को अपना बाप गुज्जर भैंस 🐃🐃🐃 चोर बना देते हैं। क्या बात है बेटा गुज्जर भैंस 🐃🐃🐃 चोर एक मौका मुझे भी दे दो गुज्जरी बकरी 🐐🐐🐐 चोर के साथ गुज्जरी महल में 😁😂😝

more than Kushans it was the mauryans who spread buddhism

Buddhism united the scattered tribes in Annam, that's says alot considering the cut throat tribal leaders that rule the erea

Buddhism was already spread out much across Central Asia before the rise of the Kushan empire.

What races are descended from the kidarites

Pretty sure Buddhism was already popular before kushans even the greeks who came before were patronage of Buddhism

Ganiskha was real?

@@eedwardgrey2 yes. His name was Kanishka..

@@Dokja0 why all these names sound Indian....

@@karandullet380 Well, the empire did encompass most of the North India so..

@@karandullet380 central asia was more indianized than persianized at the time. After the islamic conquest by the turks central asia became persianized. Iran was a more passive conservative society so it made it easy for India’s buddhism to spread that far. The Kushans had conquered North India so they were even more exposed to Indianization.

Or when a white haired demon lord associated with hawks destroyed their sultan transforming him into a tree of light

@@TeutonicEmperor1198 nice reference

😔

This invasion could have been avoided had the Midland people just put their grasses on.

Man! I can hear Susumu Hirasawa’s Kajiwotore from reading this thread.

The greatest treasure of the time found in Afghanistan is for the kushan time.

Ohhhj that was why it sound so familiar

Even the weapons used by them like "urumi", "chakram" etc exist

The King of the Kushans was called Ganishka in Berserk :)

"Griffith did nothing wrong" Lol

Even Hinduism ( shivaite sect ) also .

They later adopted hinduism as well.

Kanishka and last kushan king name vasudeva all are hindu sanskrit names. They became great patron of Hinduism and sanskrit

@@max-cs9ko no they patronised Buddhism first then convert to Hinduism.

@@maku8075 Buddhism is just a philosophy in hinduism

When I see wrong stuff like that, I wonder what else they get wrong that we don't notice.

True

They also depicted the king of Kashgar with Chinese appearance, I highly doubt that was the case. The king was probably local of Tocharian or proto-Turkic ethnic group. Since there were Chinese military garrisons in the area, If the ruler was somehow ethnic Chinese and he consorted with foreign power for legitimacy, his head would've been chopped off by the military garrison.

@@voidvector yep! Dressing up like that would be seen as claiming the Chinese throne. His attire should have been closer to that of the nomadic folks.

The Han dynasty-era envoy at 7:47 is a copy of a painting of Qin Shi Huang, regalia and all... Great content as usual - would be even better with accuracy in visual depictions.

Yuezhi is Turk

@@user-ni1fh8fr9h it's not turk but Central Asian tribe in more detail yuzehi

@@Dexusaz yes many of the central asian tribes conquered areas in iran, India, china and Europe but Central asia tribes doesn't mean turk only you should correct yourself otherwise Mongolian will call everybody mongols too

@@Dexusaz sorry I meant to tag the person above me and mistakenly tagged you

Relax I just trolling

Even today, many indian men are named *Kanishk*

Kanishk is well known ruler....budhism also

@@mishrachabra4471 Yup. One of my friend's name is Kanishka too.

@@amargujjar5059 nope.

@@amargujjar5059 Yuezhi are not gujjars. During the time period of yuezhi, the identity of Gujjars did not even exist. The kushans, and by extension the yuezhi, got assimilated into various central asian, Northern Indian and East asian populations over time. There are no direct descendants so stop with your nonsense

Tell me wha Tell me wha Tell me what you want.

Yes

Something something, Homeworld reference.

@@eldorados_lost_searcher I don't know why! i don't know why! You are afreid!

Han Dynasty= Level 99 boss, Indo-Greeks= Lvl 1 crook

@Who are you? There's no order in the timeline I have given. It's all in jest. But thanks for pointing this out. I found out a lot of interesting facts about the Wusun. The Wusun king Nandoumi was defeated and killed by the Yuezhi in circa 170BCE. His legendary son, who was said to have been fed by she-wolves and ravens, then had his revenge and defeated and pushed the Yuezhi out of the Northwest China in 132BCE.

Gupta empire:shut ur damn mouth

@@amartyaraj3211 The Guptas conquered the remnants of the Kushan empire and later also did the same with the Sakas in India.

@@anirudh177 gupta threw the kushan out and broke huns

Cutene how you pronounce kanishka as ganishk😂😂

@@anantambisht4895 ganishka is English romanisation of Japanese spelling of kanishka

Nothing but gravel out here!

@@jawharz9759 It seems you ... Did not get the reference.

*Agnes Dei plays softly in the background*

Not only Asia .

Yes

@@livecarsonreaction Yes

@ARYA : officials why are you telling me this for ? Was there a question mark in my post ?🙄

@@47morlock and India was Iran south east Asia was under turkhis iranicii Uyghur kazarii empires kishan second empires of scitians sakha

Yup and there King is even called Ganishka

*Hindu And that was kalinga samrajyam's gift to the Javanese people

@@anirudh8159 Tamil and punjaby sikh

Indonesia was mini India unless it was forced converted by muslims

@@vasluidupaoluna2697 Sikhism is newer.

@@anantambisht4895 That didn't happen though

@ابوالفضل مازنی iranic people has Indian dna. R1a, r1a1

If you're a medieval warrior, fighting horse back archers from the steppes, in a flat plains area, f-in run

@@shaka7302 if you still can

Not the most brutal but the best.

Pretty much tanks of the ancient world. War elephants doesn't count lol.

@Peter D LOL

I count them in awe, my friend, in relation to your Iranian brothers, why?

The are still in the same region of Afghanistan today as the nomadic Kuchi people

Singapore? Really?

The Scythians, I did not defeat the Parthians, they won

Kushan empire and today kasana or kusana are part of gujjar tribe

@@amargujjar5059 do you mean Dalit Emoji were the descendant of Kushan?

@@amargujjar5059 he's saying that gurjara are descendants of Dalits

@@cocothegoldenretriever5072 He himself is a Dalit, Achoot and untouchable that's why he calling others Dalit. Gurjars who ruled India for centuries and Rajputs were born from Gurjars. Gurjars are real Kshatriyas.👑

Kushan empire was 2.5 million sq km actually it was one of the largest and biggest empire in the world.

That and the fact that it's not even original. The base is actually of Third Stupa which was then destroyed by lightning

@Everyone is BJP IT CELL bro! spread your pathetic propaganda somewhere other Chaddilwale sanghi...!!!

@@notorious9278 that's the truth actually you sLave of arBs culturally

In one of his lectures he said that indus valley civilization was destroyed by aryan invasions..🙄

Kapil Rana I never took a course on the Indus Valley civ so I can’t speak to his perspective or to the merits of the argument. I will say that every once in a while in class he had an old fashioned opinion, but he was still an excellent lecturer and a real authority on the stuff more firmly in his wheelhouse (Greece, Rome, Vikings). Having one anachronistic opinion does not make a historian bad

@@mvcandyclub3230 you are right..i have gone through his barbarian empires of the steppe course and he was brilliant but his knowledge on on india esp pre islamic history of india is a bit outdated..otherwise a really good historian..

@@Justiceforall3799 Nope..there is no kind of evidence that supports this theory now..

Modu was a Turkic

@@scourgeofgodattila579 "Modu" is wrong reading of old chinese characters, M is B and his name propably was a variant of Bagatur/bagapur as in MO is bog and DU is dur/tur part. Modu is reading done in beginning of 1900 century, old chinese proffesors have clarified the reading.

@@kefkahkefkah Mongolians call him Modun.

@@ElBandito Turks call hım Motu

Thats from the same source you know, 19th century they read the same chinese history book, modoun in mongolian or modu in in turkey is not independent name but both from same old chinese spelling. Try reading some new books for correct prounonciation. , modu or modoun was not a name kmow in turkish or mongolian before the 19th/18th century, just a fact try to read more. M in old chinese represent a B sound

Kushans, Sakas, Uighurs, Khitans, Mongols, Turks, Parthians, and Jurchens all did. To be fair, most did so after turning into literate, sedentary empires, but there were exceptions. The Toluid Mongols only started writing down their history on the verge of being forced back into a nomadic life. The Chagataid Mongols never really turned sedentary but wrote down their history regardless. The Uighurs just kept writing down their history regardless of whether their civilization was nomadic or sedentary, and the Khitans wrote down their history on both sides of their empire (the northern Khitans were nomads but the southern Khitans were sedentary rulers of the Liao Dynasty). The problem is that very few of these histories were preserved. The Khitans are an important case in point because we do have many of their historical records left behind but only about half of their Chinese-derived characters can be read today.

@@andrewsuryali8540 I think another equally big problem is what other Civilizations write about them. A biased view from an Iranian or a Indian author about the Kushans, will never tell the true story. And I think the biggest problem is verifying the source from the discussed people themselves(truth/glorification) vs sedentary empires (propaganda/mysticism).

@@dogeofgreatness2222 : When that hapoens, summon the sociologists, and hand me a spade, please.

@@meilinchan7314 sure will my brother ;)

@@dogeofgreatness2222 My friend, these Iranians are more Iranian than the Chinese

What calendar do we use now ? Is the Samvat Hindu calendar or something else ? I think nearly every state has its own calendar like the Bengali Calendar and the Tamil Sun Calendar.

@@dwarasamudra8889 Yes Bengal has its own calendar along with some states, but I believe the only official calendar is the Saka one. As for the astrological and religious calendars I am not too sure which one is used.

Wow I didn't know that..thanks

The original *Hindu* calendar is *VIKRAM SAMVAT* (विक्रम संवत) designed by king vikramaditya... The republic of india adopted shak samvat in 1947 as the official calendar because of nehru's staunch anti-hindu ideology

Kushans were afghans iranics not Indians stop claiming every empire as Indian😂😂

@@JohnKuang-rf6fb But he was Chinese though and at that time it was under Chinese rule right?

@@danshakuimo Yes, Kashgar was ruled by Han Chinese but if he ever dear putting on the attire of the "Son of Heaven" the Han empire will be knocking on his door real soon.

Just wondering if we have know for sure now that they're Tocharians? When we were studying about them back in school it's still unconfirmed and they could be either Tocharians, Iranians or some unknown Indo-European group.

@@wilhelmreinhardt4643 Tocharians were of two stock, one Sanskritic and other Avestanic (the Avestanic being some influence from Sogidan who tho were mostly Hindu). It is easily interpolated from the records of Megasthenes, Strabo, Ptolemy, Hiuen Tsang as well as traditional sources, Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, Valmiki Ramayana, Vyas Mahabharata, and ultimately Chinese records of Yeuzhi and inscriptions of Kushanas and Hunas (the latter of whom were of common origin if not the same) which describe the regions of Uttara Kuru (Xinjiang and Eastwards, homeland of Tocharians and Yeuzhi), Uttara Madra (Tajik and beyond), Uttara Balika (Bactria), all of which intersected each other and were mentioned by the Greek and Chinese (Hieun Tsang specifically) chronologists/histographers as being associated by Hindus of Aryavarta (Arya has no racial connotation like fake construct of Aryan, Dahae/Dasa were Iranian tribes who's descendants became Zoroastrians and still exist today). Hiuen Tsang specifically mentions Uttar Kuru to be a Hindu-Buddhist and the Sogidans being largely Hindu which is further proved through various sources as well as their paintings and artifacts. The Khotans which was particularly mentioned to be Hindu kingdom being formed by the descendants of the blind son of Ashoka, assimilated with Tocharians in Uttara Kuru and thus the last remnants of Tocharians were later absorbed by Uyghur Turkics. It might also interest you to know that the Hara Huna tribe where mentioned in Mahabharata, also the inscriptions of Hüis Tolgoi and Bugut found in Mongolia were fully in Brahmi script in the former and half of the latter

@@wilhelmreinhardt4643 Western academia is quite deceptive, most of what you learn in Uni is purposefully half assed

@@wilhelmreinhardt4643 Tokharoi applied by Strabo to one of the Saka tribes from the country on the other side of the Iaxartes, that overran the Greco-Bactrian kingdom in 2nd century BC. Even modern scholars identify Tokharoi with Yeuzhi

@@thebeyonder4113 huns and kushan were tengrisim and never converted hinduism and kaniska was a buddha

Bro they were tokhi 😂

@@altaftokhi6834 why u crying?

@@teovu5557 lol why should cry for ?

@@leifstennes9822 He used to be a Total War youtuber, makes sense that he is here.

@@leifstennes9822 Indeed

Wait a minute blackscape what are you doing here I thought you were dbz RU-vidr I didn't know you were into history stuff as well

The Scythians have won. I am strong. We are the sons of the dragons

@@user-xu9ji4dd4e what are you talking about man

@@justinlabrosse8506 These Scythians who made the symbol of the dragon and the symbol of the Nazis

Malades

Uzbekistan is more likely assimilated into Turkic by language but culturally still Iranian.

@@jurmanjiojurmancki5929 SHUT UP İGRONANT.

The Parthians of this person, my friend

Azi shaka from ujjain not uchi

You don't understand that the Chinese are more often outside rivals, most of the time in civil wars, and civil wars are the most brutal, the peak of the Han Dynasty had a population of over 60 million, and only 6 million after the civil war at the end of the empire Even so, they could not fight for the only final victor and even did not hesitate to introduce northern nomadic tribes to participate in the civil war. Haha, then weak and then grow up, and then enter the peak, a civil war in the Tang Dynasty lost 70% of the population, the plains in northern China almost became no man's land, at this time the nomads in the north will have no resistance to enter the north of China , and grow stronger, these nomadic groups have almost the same blood as the Chinese, and will gradually become integrated with the Chinese. The rise of Mongolia happened to be the time when the three political forces in China were at their weakest. Even so, Mongolia spent It took 60 years to finally defeat China, the Mongols conquered easily in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, but it was very difficult in China, and the Mongol massacres in Central Asia did not work at all on China's side, because usually the Chinese This is often done in civil wars. In the end, the Mongols used the method of profiting the Chinese army to rebel and completed the elimination of the Chinese regime. In order to appease the Chinese people's resistance, the Mongols adopted much lower taxes than China's own emperor, which made most Chinese choose to surrender to Mongolia and betray their own emperor and bureaucracy. Haha, China has always been a secular Crowd, everyone pursues the maximization of interests! However, the Mongols' rule lasted only 89 years, because the Mongols, like the Chinese, like internal power struggles, and the high-level struggles in Mongolia have caused the country's financial system to collapse. Coupled with natural disasters and bureaucratic inaction, Chinese farmers The group overthrew the rule of the Mongols. Guess what the Mongols will do at this time? The Mongols fought civil wars in the north for their rights, and the peasant uprising groups were also fighting each other because of different factions. At this time, it was a strange phenomenon that the Mongols fought their own civil wars, and the Chinese fought the Chinese civil wars. They did not interfere with each other. The Chinese's own civil war was over, and the winners went north to attack the Mongols, and kept attacking on the Mongols' home grasslands, captured almost the entire bureaucratic class and intellectuals of Mongolia and brought them back to the core areas of China to serve the new regime. Then the Mongols returned to the original nomadic life again, and their internal struggles continued for decades until they became two forces and reached a balance! Even when the western colonists completely colonized India and Southeast Asia, and then colonized China, the Chinese had a terrible civil war due to internal conflicts. This civil war caused the most economically prosperous area of China to lose more than 70 million people, and the western colonists only occupied The two cities of Hong Kong and Macau were destroyed, and the Western colonists were still unable to gain a foothold in China. They were continuously attacked by the army organized by the people, so in the end they only used the behavior of blackmailing the emperor to help the emperor stabilize the state power, thereby dumping goods and opium. benefit from

I am a hazara not a Mongol do you even have any information about us

Abdali was a person not a tribe

@@SAMAYDOSTDAR abdali is a tribe... The person you are referring to is Ahmed shah abdali...'ahmed shah' was his name and abdali was his tribe name...

Include Pashtuns too. They were an Iranian tribe. Even natives of Afghanistan and KP province of Pakistan are descended from native Ashvaka tribe.

@@puneetmishra4726 abdali are Pashtuns who are thought to be the white Huns, khiljis are Pashtuns who are thought to be the Turks, yousufzai and some other pashtun tribes are thought to belong to lost tribes of Israel ...well in my opinion Pashtuns tribes are a mix of many races and ethnicities who adopted pashtun culture...

Kanishka is a berserk villain

6 Indian orthodox schools of philosophy also.

I like how this channel isn't eurocentric and always covers interesting historical periods from each and every part of the world

and how/why they were defeated/removed from Central Asia & India

@@johnl.7754 Declined you mean

mostly Pallava empire help spread Hinduism to south East. Though they have huge amount of Sanskirt derived words in their languages almost all of them pre-islam had alphabets derived from Pallava alphabets. Certain alphabets like Burma, Thai still use alphabets based on Pallava alphabet. Pallavas themselves during their initial period were a vassal state of Satavahanas.