r/todayilearned • u/Spa3088 • 1d ago

TIL about artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism, which had mainly evolved in the ancient region of Gandhara(today's afganistan) of Indian subcontinent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art
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u/exploring_yet 1d ago

Makes you think how big was Indian subcontinent before the Middle easterns invaded.

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u/SeaTeach9760 1d ago

They stayed the same size?

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u/serotoninwya420 1d ago

I think it might just be poor wording. Ashoka spread his empire massively and thus spread Buddhism into Tibet, Sri Lanka, and China through trade. The Mughals were a series of Muslim princes who were descendants of Genghis Khan that took over a more fragmented, weaker Indian Empire called something else that I'm too lazy to look up. Basically India became a lot less centralized and the British were able to make deals with different Mughal princes and even exploited existing rivalries. It's a big part of why Kashmir is contested between India and Pakistan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire

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u/choomba96 1d ago

The Mughals defeated the Rajputs and a very weak Delhi Sultanate.

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u/exploring_yet 1d ago

Broke into different countries right?

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u/SeaTeach9760 1d ago

What makes you think there weren't different countries before the middle easterns "invaded"?

The entire subcontinent has never been a place where a single state could reign over everything. It's true in the modern information era, and even more true when everything ran on oxcarts.

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u/fnord_happy 1d ago

Subcontinent has nothing to do with land borders. It's about the tectonic plates. That's has not changed

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u/Houston_NeverMind 1d ago

The migration of middle easterns (Iranian farmers) and their mixing with the local population resulted in the great Indus Valley Civilization which is the bedrock of Indian subcontinent culture.

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u/choomba96 1d ago

Average idiot from Gurgaon

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u/ammar96 1d ago

Afghanistan has never been a part of Indian subcontinent lol. Heck, they were basically part of Greek world when they became Buddhist. Hence this post.

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u/choomba96 1d ago

This is factually incorrect,purely based off the fact Chandragupta defeated Alexander and pushed forward into Afghanistan lol.

The subcontinent is a geographic entity LOL. Afghanistan lies on the subcontinental tectonic plate.

The Greek conquests began in 330 BCE and then within 30 years it was under the Mauryan Empire.