The document discusses the history of the Persian Empire and its control over parts of India from around 500 BC to 300 BC. It notes that the Persian emperor Darius ruled over the Indus region as a satrapy. Indian archers fought for the Persians against the Greeks. It also discusses the rule of the Nanda dynasty in India and their defeat by Alexander the Great when he invaded India from the northwest in 327 BC.
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Nanda Dinasty, India, Alexander the Great, Persian Empire, Xerxes, Greeks
The document discusses the history of the Persian Empire and its control over parts of India from around 500 BC to 300 BC. It notes that the Persian emperor Darius ruled over the Indus region as a satrapy. Indian archers fought for the Persians against the Greeks. It also discusses the rule of the Nanda dynasty in India and their defeat by Alexander the Great when he invaded India from the northwest in 327 BC.
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The document discusses the history of the Persian Empire and its control over parts of India from around 500 BC to 300 BC. It notes that the Persian emperor Darius ruled over the Indus region as a satrapy. Indian archers fought for the Persians against the Greeks. It also discusses the rule of the Nanda dynasty in India and their defeat by Alexander the Great when he invaded India from the northwest in 327 BC.
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Empire. m His dynasty is known as the Achaemenid. m Their big rivals were the western Empires: Babylon, Lidia, and Egypt: all of them besieged. m India appears in inscriptions dated ca. 518, where the territories belonging to Persia were listed (those under the flow of Indo, where today¶s Sind is located). The ruler of Persia by those days was Darius. m The region of the Indo becomes then a satrapy. m Indian archers are to take a part: m 1) in the Persian wars against the Greeks, during Xerxes. The Persian emperor was defeated at Platea in 479 b.C. m 2) The battle of Gaugamela (331 b.C.) together with Daryus III vs. Alexander the Great. Are once again defeated. m Persian cultural influence would last and well be seen until the times of Emperor Asoka. m _ahapadma Nanda first king whose transcendence is so big that Roman and Greek tales talk about him. m Born of a Sudra woman, killed the whole Ksatriya aristocracy that was between him and his interests. m Had eight sons who ruled one after the other until they were finally dethroned. All of them are remembered as the navanandah (nine ±or new- nandas). m The navanandahs stole enormous loots from the surrounding kingdoms as well as the tributes from their own people. It is said they hid the treasures inside the currents of the Ganges. m The troops of the Nandas were counted in the highs of 20K riders, 200K infantry soldiers, 2K combat chariots each with 4 horses and 3K elephants. m 336 b.C. Alexander was proclaimed king of _acedonia. m After conquering and unifying the whole of Greece, Alexander continues his campaign towards the east beginning with Persia. m By 327 he begins his campaign towards India. m Historians taken with him by the Emperor narrate very descriptively about this phase of the campaign. m Alexander departed in 327 from Bactria (todays Afgan-Russian frontier) with 30K men towards india. m As the fine strategist he was, he first tries to convince as many Indian rulers to pact with him to avoid fighting as much as possible. m Taxila immediately accepts. m And now, a narration of the Alexander¶s Saga« m The cultural result of the contact of both worlds can be seen in the art of Gandhara. m In it Buddhist content and Greek style are fused. m Astronomy is one of the main areas of co-influence. Old Indian texts in the matter utilize Greek terms. m The [ (VI C. a.D.), a quite famous Geometry/Astronomy/_athematics treaty written by V- _, Greek technicalities are commonly used. It is considered one of the . m The same happens in the a
and the . m There is no single historical text written by any Indian source that even mentions Alexander and his campaign. m He is remembered in India nowadays not as ³The Great´ but has only commercial merits recognized.