Roman-Indo-Parthian Trade
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2019
- We are continuing our new animated historical documentary series on the Roman trade and economy with a video on the trade with the Indo-Parthian Kingdom. Previously we have covered the Roman trade with India • How Roman trade with I... the importance of Egypt • Why Was Egypt Crucial ... and Roman-African trade • Roman Trade with Afric...
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Sources:
Adrian Goldsworthy - Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor
Raoul McLaughlin - The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: The Ancient World Economy and the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia and India
Raoul McLaughlin - Rome and the Distant East: Trade Routes to the Ancient Lands of Arabia, India and China
Alan K. Bowman and Dominic Rathbone - Cities and Administration in Roman Egypt
Adrian Goldsworthy - Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Production Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound: www.epidemicsound.com
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Rosed are red
Money grow on tree
Im greedy and poor
May God forgive me
Great vid very intersting please do obe on a the sikh empire please
Iran is cousin of India...we are Aryans...😊
If I had money I'd just donate, not be a patron
@Homer's Odyssey yeah, unlike turkish history channels he doesn't put higher numbers for other side and shit and they do a valid research on it.
Would you guys consider making a video on how ancient currency works? How does a silver or gold coin get its value?
Will look into that!
Those were good times, now only 1 country America controls every country's currency which sucks
@@thunderbear0 forget the usa its time we start using gold again
@@ahamedihamiyun5927 fuck gold lets use rocks.
@@arhambliss8606 😂😂😂
Guess what Ujjain still exists, exactly where the Romans used to trade. It's one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on Earth. It's a thriving city of millions of people now. Fascinating isn't it !!! A city which traded with people who were roaming Rome when Pliny was giving his speeches there.
Also Meerut, Inderprastha(Delhi) and Patna( Pataliputra)... there are many ancient cities in India that are thriving even today
@@bhaveshsharma8422 Of course there are. Varanasi is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. If we consider that way, there would be hundreds of such cities in India which are still continuing from that period, from Tamralipta in Bengal to Poovar in Tamil Nadu just to name a couple. Why I specifically mentioned Ujjain is because that's the only such city mentioned in the video. The cities you have cited are not a part of this video.
Thus mentioning Ujjain Non Indians could relate to it, and understand what a treasure trove of historical continuity India is. No other city across the world that's mentioned in the video exists now. They may have been reestablished with a different name later in history, but not continually inhabited, apart from Ujjain.
@@bhaveshsharma8422 meerut(meyrastra)
@@imonghosh912 wow you are knowledgeble! Did you study history in college or its your natural interest?
Varanasi is the oldest city of the world.
To be fair, wine isn't widely produced in India even today. It's mostly rum, beer & whiskey.
The climate of the subcontinent isn't suitable for viniculture except in a few specific places. Whereas wheat, barley & sugarcane grow abundantly & are common crops.
yo hotty! .
Sula wines in Maharashtra province produces wine in India
@@whateverman181 yes it is not the whole of India
Also in later ages, islamic rulers were also not fond of alcohols for obvious reasons, so they were not produced.
@@pax4370 No they were fond of wines, especially Jahangir. Just that they preferred to import it.
Back in the days of school in India, history books did mentioned about the Roman-Indian trade, but not as much in details as explained here in one video. This was very informative.
@Nav V They have cleverly ignores our wealthy and powerful empires like Gupta and Chola empires all the while gloryfying Mughals and British..
From what little I remember, the entirety of Ancient history of India- from prehistoric to Harshavardhan, gets covered in Standard-VI only, so there's a severe limitation as to what can be covered, and some things are always going to be left out.
After my schooling, I thought Indian history was this:
1. Some ancient hindu things we don't know much about.
2. Delhi sultanate
3. Mughals
4. British
5. Modern republic after violence.
There's nothing about any hindu kings. When I learnt that the Marathas had defeated the Mughals and used to control almost all their lands at one point I was shocked, because the way I learnt it, the Mughals were the strongest indian dynasty and they were only defeated by the British because we were not United.😶
@Adil Alfa that is cause indian never left any historical sources. Heck even some of the indian kings are fictional
@V k the only historical sources is through sculpture, temples and religious text. The mughal leave a lot of records
10:34 the letter is actually the beginning of the Odyssey.
Finally we discovered Homer’s true identity!
@@tjallingappelhof2055 The Mousa Polytropon approves :D
could you explain this a bit
@@bikramjitbiswas9478 The letter on screen at the timestamp is the opening to the Odyssey. I remember the word polytropos=πολυτρόπως which is used at the start to describe Odysseus and can be seen in the letter
@@MrSticklife wow , thanks for this
The haggling in the market was fiercer than the wars in the east
I honestly preferring this kind of content
iqbal sahibil Ahahahah
I like it all
iqbal sahibil Yeah. Let's just hope.
@iqbal sahibil well they where all apart of the same country not too long ago.
@iqbal sahibil I haven't seen a single one fight about it.
This is epic
Between you two I get most my knowledge on history
Thank you very much !!
4:39 The text in Hindi on the seal says, Take membership of Kings and Generals🤣
Though there is one error the word for 'Generals' isn't a translation instead it's just written in Hindi, should have used सेनापतियों (P:senapatiyon) instead of जनरलों (P:Generalon)
Caught my eye too..
Hahahahahaha
Thanks for telling because I am Tamil and don't know hindi
@@Dokja0 Are you Indian?
@@SpeedDemon_Editzzz Don't mean any hate or anything but asking out of curiosity don't you guys read Hindi in schools?
Me: Ugh, I'm bored af
*Kings and Generals uploads*
Me: Finally....
Thanks Kings & Generals !
Fascinating - being from India myself I’m loving this !
4:40 it says subscribe to kings and generals in hindi😂
Emissary: ''I have bought you a gift! It's a small Indian Boy......We cut his arm off for you.''
Roman: ''Ooooh cool, I don't have one of those yet! Thanks!''
Exotic goods : One armed Indian youth. Weird flex but ok...
@iqbal sahibil Eunuchs make kinda sense, but what do you do with a one armed indian youth?
@iqbal sahibil If I was given a one armed indian youth as a gift I'd have to politely decline. Wtf am I going to do with another mouth to feed.
Or maybe the tigers that were also a gift could be incorporated somehow to my 1 armed indian youth problem.
@iqbal sahibil Eunuchs served various legitimate purposes in history. No dick no wife cuckolding. Plus, they can't start dynasty so them killing you for the throne is damn unlikely.
It waz likely his group were targeted by bandits numerously during their journey to the roman empire, and maybe unfortunately in one incident the boy lost his arm in a raid
LoL at 1:07 the top Greek means subscribe to Kings and Generals nice easter egg there
Is it in ancient greek or demotic greek?
@@keshavshah488 The top in demotic and the bottom one in ancient
@@apostolispouliakis7401
Are they mutually intelligible?
@@keshavshah488 Depends according to how much you payed attention in school I can understand both some people can't
@@apostolispouliakis7401
So if a person learns only demotic it would be impossible to understand ancient greek, right?
Btw are you people taught ancient greek as a part of school curricullum?
Thank you for these easy-to-understand videos on more off beat subjects. That's why I love your channel.
Thanks for watching!
That seal in Hindi says subscribe to King's and generals😂
It’s nice to watch the economy activity of those time periods.
Question: Did the wars between Parthians and romans or Parthians and the indo-Parthian disturb these tradings? And what was the impact?
Not as much as you would imagine, embargo were very hard to implement in that period and trade was a huge source of revenue for all people involved.
I would assume similar to how it is generally seen throughout history as a crime or atleast very dishonorable to kill diplomats, killing merchants would be seen as something like that. Just an assumption however.
@@12345678900987659101 hmm no state immunity was given to traders as far as I know (maybe early modern Europe)
But it was an unspoken big no no, like good countries don't attack merchants and you're a good country right.
@@12345678900987659101 although there are some famous examples of this (the khwarismid shah killing Mongol merchants and seizing their goods).
genghis khan's visceral anger show's just how rare it was though. Bandits were a much bigger danger to every day merchants
Well, merchants would continue trading despite war. I recall a story that Brit and Nazi almost did a trade on rubber for optics, which was cancelled in the last minute.
The stamp at 4:39 says “subscribe to Kings and Generals” in Hindi. Smart.
I want to know more about these indo-parthian kingdoms you talked about, they sound fascinating.
Read about the "Mahabharata War", It is India's version of 'Trojan war" that happened sometime before 1500 B.C. It talks about Ancient India and its many Kingdoms who fought with each other over a 18 day Mega War.
It is a tale of Bravery, Tragedy, Sacrifice, Deceit, Revenge, Honor and Inspiration. Now why am I telling you this ? Because it speaks about Kambhoja (Ancient Persians who were ancestors of Parthians) and their Kings who fought in the Mahabharata War.
@sangers balakrishna kambojha relates to modern day Uzbekistan and Uzbek people
@@melodicnostalgic3823 Indo Parthians weren’t Indians they were Pashtuns under king SURENA🇦🇫🦁
You guys are putting corporate channels like History Channel to shame.. Seriously great material!
Thanks!
Red coral was the vedic stone designated for mars. Red coral would be used to alleviate maladies associated to Mars and it would also help martian properties in the horoscope from a Hindu astrological point of view.
@@therealestg9 Mars was an important deity in Rome since in the founding myth he is the father of Romulus and Remus, but he wasn't "the guiding deity".
Yes they had a "field of Mars" outside the city. The field of Mars was mainly important for Military triumph, the ritual blessing of weapons and the celebration of a new year in March since Mars also was a god of agriculture.
There is evidence that Roman soldiers wore red but also not exclusively.
There were many other gods that were of great importance for the Romans. The Capitoline Triad for example included Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. Roman Senators and Consuls wore purple stripes and the emperors even entirely purple, it was the color associated with Jupiter. Vesta was also of great importance to the Romans since she was the guardian of Rome and their families and the flame in her temple was never allowed to go out. Another goddess Romans placed great importance on was Venus was also connected to the Roman founding Myth through Aeneas and found renewed importance when Ceasar claimed to stem from her bloodline.
There are too many cults and feasts in Rome for gods to list them all. But to say that Mars was THE guiding god is to simplistic.
That Rome had the Campus Martianus and Roman soldiers wore red (to some extent) is not enough to conclude that.
@@carpediem5232rome was build by ettrysccan hitite celto iberyan frigians scityans parthians not by italians
@SorinVertigo-dn8rj not Italians? That's just nonsense. Other people's contributed a lot also, but especially in the beginnings, so did Italians
Could u please make a video on The CHOLA Empire of India.
It is said that it lasted for 1500 years.
I agree he should make video about Gupta empire ,chola empire , Rastrakutas ,kannuj ,sunga empire
What a wonderful coverage of ties between ancient India and Rome! Thanks a lot
The older I get the more interesting ancient international economics is compared with ancient warfare
Europe and India have always been great allies, much cooperation in the future I hope
Indeed . But colonization destroyed the ancient relationship .
Good allies lol
Lol what kind of sick joke is this...
@@trollhippo8365 Continental europe. UK is an island that shouldn't be counted as europe proper
@@kaijixpapa178 to be fair, greece did invade india somewhat
I honestly find videos about Ancient Trade and economy more interesting than wars and battles.
More on the way!
So versatile the channel jas become. You guys should really get some special prize from YT for your educational effort. Thanks for yet another great informative video!
I want more of this kinda content in the future if possible.
These old ways of life and economics are marvelous!
Transporting all that high quality Roman glass all that way over pitching seas and on land must have been very challenging -they must have wrapped it carefully in something!
They used U-haul
E straps obviously
@@EvilSapphireRE straps to lift your mom😂😂
I LOVE these kinds of videos. Trade in the ancient world is so interesting. I hope there are many more in the future.
Your channel is one of the few that actually informs my own work. Your comments on the red coral for example have given me insights into the material's use and value within my own community (the Khasis) in NE India ... Amazing !!
And i want to hear about SE Asia too please !!
4:40 "subscribe to Kings and Generals"
Now that's a proper seal!
@@SohanDsouza Well, yes. Plural of Senapati is also Senapati. But to be exactly accurate, the Nomadic kingdom probably used Greek on their seals.
Wow man, it is your niche to make videos about specific and narrow topic in history that you make them so professional and colorful! If I were a history teacher in middle or high school, I would show your videos in my classes, of course with your permission and copyright :D Keep it up! I enjoyed this video and awed on illustrations, music (especially whispering in spy moment), and most important abundance of information that I longed to know when I was at history classes (because they told us what they traded, but never showed how it looked like) thank you man 😭
Congratulations. This is a very complex subject and your team has really surpassed themselves with this video. The quality and sophistication just keep improving.
My next book ‘Oasis Kingdoms’ has a chapter considering Persian Gulf trade. I will have to send you advance copies when it is ready for publication.
Thank you, sir! Your work on this topic is revolutionary!
4:34 Total war Medieval 2 Attack sound, brings back many epic battle memories
Is it the Iberian march one?
8:50 Lapis Lazuli huh? I didn't know that Afghanistan sponsored _enchantments_ as well as _Shinobi prosthetics_ of the highest quality.. respect.
as well as DBZ cyborgs .
This was a delightful video to watch. Always great to touch upon subjects not normally talked about in most historical video's. My compliments to those who made this video a reality.
Great video, pretty interesting content. Like another commenter pointed out, who would have thought that a video about bureaucreacy would be that interesting. You guys pulled it off! Thanks again for all your hard work.
I'm always fascinated by these types of videos. Good work and keep it up I would love to see an exploration on Rome's relationship with Parthia as well as trade with Britain (pre- Claudian invation) as well as Rome's trade with Germania and further.
Fantastic Video! Thank you so much for this. Seeing this period of History from an economical and even global perspective is really exciting. There is so much to explore!
These are the pages I use UA-cam for. Absolutely love the content. Keep it up.
Wow. Imagine going back in time to see these ancient cities. Amazing.
would love to see more content like this! great work!
You are my teacher of history , I am still waiting for SPARTACUS ,
I would rather they keep covering subjects that havent had movies about them myself. I enjoy learning about new subjects more than retelling of a known story... That being said I am gonna watch the whole servile wars playlist when they get last one out a bunch of times lol
Outstanding content as usual. Thank you for exploring trade topics
Maaan i wish i were ancient trader. When "internet" was a local inn full of foreign merchants.
Indo Scythian is also interesting and less touched topic.
Why do indians like us have our scythian heritage denied and ignored by our own community?
@@shrinilodedra3001 all of the scythians, sakas, parthians and parsian are indo iranian, aryan
@@shrinilodedra3001 what???
@@ariyanparsamanesh9078 indo Scythians and indo Parthians were all Pashtuns afghans not Indians I don’t know why you guys always claim Iranics afghans history😂😂🇦🇫🇦🇫
@@shrinilodedra3001 indo Scythians and indo Parthians were all Pashtuns afghans not Indians I don’t know why you guys always claim Iranics afghans history😂😂🇦🇫🇦🇫
quality of this channel is rising every vid. love your effort
These videos are amazing, a big fan of antiquity and videos of this quality on niche subjects like this are unfortunately rare, please keep it up
Ancient economics are very underrated and I would like to know more. Please make more of these.
I enjoyed every minute of the video, it's really nice. I hope we will see more videos like this one. Please and thank you!
There will be more!
These trade videos are some of yalls most fascinating vids.
Such a fascinating topic, thank you for covering all of this.
Somehow, "nomads" and "bureaucracy" being used for the same group of people who lived in urban cities seems contradictory
The places of trade were owned by a dynasty which formerly came as a nomadic peoples but eventually settled, much like the Mongols.
Maybe he wrote the title before researching.
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Kaiser II ميادة
Sakas were central asiatic nomads who settled down in India. Consider them like 14th century Turks. They lived in large cities but most of them were not built by them and continued the beauracratic aparatus they inherited and improved upon them
K&G is 🐐
my favorite YT channel, no doubt
thanks guys
Thanks! :-)
It has been a while since a enjoyed a really fresh kind of video from you guys. Excellent work
I really appreciate this series. Please continue!
Love the new art style
Oh hell yes! I love these videos on trade and economics.
If you guys could ever make a video on Venetian trade, that would be amazing!
Will look into that!
I wish you'd never stop making this series. I love the history of trading connections of the ancient and medieval world so much!!! I'd like to see videos on the trade in the Malay Archipelago too ❤️
This is really interesting. Thanks for making these videos on trade.
Waiting for a Video about Roman Trade with Pandyan Kingdom
11:00 I've seen this chain of events too many times in CK2 "So tell me about the mighty land of India?"
What's CK2?
@@bhaveshsharma8422 a grand strategy game created by Paradox
@Kings and Generals I just discovered your merch store and have splodged a pile of cash down to buy a load of Roman gear before it vanished off the virtual shelves. Thank you, you've made an Imperial fangirl very happy.
आपने बहुत उत्तम बताया है भारत के लिए। बहुत आनंद आया।
अल्प बताया। अत्यधिक ब्योरा के लिए भारतीयों को आगे आकर अपना चैनल बनाना होगा।
*Undevided Hindusthan!*
Oh what were the days 😥😥
Well, there was no Hindustan back then
eh? you realise that the subcontinent was not united back then?
There was no Hindu religion back then you stupid
Almost every ancient indian kingdom from north to south did trade with Rome. There are coins of Romans discovered in many cities in India eve. Now. Like the pandyans of madurai(a ki gdom that was older than Rome), cherans of kanyakumari and Cholans of tanjavur.
@@Mt7hr_1229 lol what?? dude these were people who had been mixing with one another for centuries they will be ruling parts of subcontinent and will be ruling it for centuries calling them fully afghan or iranic is dumb
@@171_indranildutta6 bruh Scythians were eastern Iranic peaples and they are ancestors of modern Tajiks and Ossetians
@@Mt7hr_1229 indo synthians were mixed blood
@@Mt7hr_1229 rajputs claim they are descendants of those indo synthians warlords
@@171_indranildutta6 I am talking about Scythians not indo Scythians and most of indo Scythians are in modern Pakistan
I absolutely love these videos about historical trade and economy!
I really like your normal videos, but these kinds are super fascinating
great stuff every time, keep it up
Thanks!
@@KingsandGenerals instant click every time
Makes you wonder if there was any contacts between Roman traders and the remnants of the populace of the Indo Greek kingdoms, as by this time despite the fall of the kingdom there was still a distinct, interwoven Greek and Indian culture that still existed.
@fidel castro What the hell are you talking about. Do some reading.
fidel castro that’s how human knowledge works mate
I really like this kind of content. Trade and others perspectives of lifestyle in ancient world is fascinating.
Very interesting video, great quality as always.
Why have I never heard about all this? It is just amazing how much we don't know about our world.
General warfare: not my type of episode
Economist: oh yeah, trade and currency war
This video was awesome! Thank you so much!
I love these economic vids. I wonder if you'll ever trick us and have a battle break out suddenly near the end. Seriously tho, awesome content that provides rare context and detail.
[ '' The Market is *open* ! All transactions are *Final!* '' ]
This one was extremely nice..
Please also do documentaries on the trade of medieval italian republics, like venice, genoa, pisa and amalfi...
Very interesting video, thanks a lot to you all!
This was amazing and super interesting guys! keep it up!
Thanks!
History economics and bureacracy is my least favorite part in studying History, preferring war, politics and geography:
But man, your presentation made it very interesting for me. War is not always good, after all.
LOL, I understand your point of view. When I was younger I was skipping over the not so exciting parts. Nowadays its rather the reverse. I realized that economics, populations dynamics, social structure like administration and religion are overall more decisive than your good old battle.
As one of my favorite history blogs (the history of Rome) likes to say. Rome built an Empire "by not loosing wars." In other words, by being able to win a war even after loosing battles. Others countries lost one battle and were gone from history forever. That's the power of social institutions.
Do a video on indo parthians indo Scythians and indo sassanians
Love this channel, amazing videos. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
@@KingsandGenerals With pleasure! Keep it up! :)
the quality is realy getting silk slick
Crazy how connected the ancient world was and how essentially we've been doing things for centuries for people to like us (ie wearing fancy gemstones)
I know you’re British so you have a bias, but why does it say “Nomads in India” and not actually reference any nomadic people that lived in India? Is it just referring to the ancestry of Scythians and parthians, because when they began ruling parts of India, Scythian and parthians were forced to become settled and give up theirs lifestyle. This would make sense though, because you said there were no natural harbors on western coast of India which is false unless during barbarian rule of Parthian and Scythians who’s economic policies and bad administration destroyed several port cities. But there were still good natural harbors down south in Satvahana, Karnataka and Kerala.
I think this has been changed now. At 9:30 It talks about formerly nomadic Sakha people.
indo Scythians and indo Parthians were all Pashtuns afghans not Indians I don’t know why you guys always claim Iranics afghans history the indo Parthian was called as SUREN kingdom ruled by SURENA and General Surena was pashtun afghan😂😂🇦🇫🇦🇫
So glad I found this channel
This video held and kept my attention like my best college lecturer did; refreshing indeed and I learned thinks I never thought about before.
5:42 So, India has a millenia old system of protectionism. Explains our recent retreat from the RCEP!😂
🤣🤣
happen to this date
@@Mt7hr_1229 Afghans are not of Scythian heritage. Some Afghan Pashtun nationalists started this myth over ten years back but according to archeologists, Iranic peoples appeared in the area around the 11th and 12th century BC. Pashtuns are also classified as Southeastern Iranic in contrast to Scythians who were Northeastern iranic.
Turkic speaking Asians pushed the Iranic nomadic pastoralists southwards towards the Iranian plateau, and some became sedentary (such as the Medes and the Persians) but others kept dwelling in the steppes such as the Scythians. In other words, nomadic Iranic peoples of Central Asia were Scythians. In the steppes of central Asia, there was an eternal battle between Turks and Scythians, as it was beautifully told by the poet Ferdosi in Iran's national stories of the Shahnamé.
@@Mt7hr_1229 How does R1a matter here? Just a random genetic fragment. All the good things in humans are based purely on an individual and their upbringing.
Shakuni from the Mahabharata and Panini the Sanskrit grammarian were Pashtuns though
@@Mt7hr_1229 both Ancient North Indians and Iranian people emerged out of the BMC around 3500 BC. Around 8000 BC Iranian pastoralists migrated to the subcontinent giving rise to the later Harappan civ. This is common knowledge. Pashtuns are a negligible part of the Indo-European migrations. Nothing to fawn over to be honest
The Roman Denarii, the US Dollar of the Antiquities
Nice video , interesting to see how economy and the aspects of supply and demand have been in the human history for so long.
love the channel keep up the good work
1 Armed Indian Youth? What kind of gift is that? Made me Chuckle.
P.S. I really love the content you guys Produce, it fascinates me just how well travelled and enterprising the ancients were.
One armed.
May be it as send as a sex slave. They did that.
@@kaycey7361 male sex slave??? never heard of such
@@171_indranildutta6clearly a new student of history
When it's K&G's notification first Like; then watch. Greetings from India.👍🙂
Thank you for such a wonderful video. I learned a lot
Very interesting video. Great job!
Pigs destroyed these books of records in Nalanda University. And other universities