Why tf are they talking about taking Afghanistan and even the Arabic peninsula so?
nemom on
According to the many maps posted last week or early this week, this was not part of the “known world” so there’s no way the ancient Indians could have known about it. 🙂
GovernmentBig2749 on
Me, a Yavana native.
chanspies on
TIL where the name for Bangkok’s airport comes from
Aladeen911MF on
Jambudwipa was initially not used in a geographical sense and **Bharatvarsh** was used for Indian Subcontinent and bharatvarsh + paarsik + cheen + Swarnabhumi + Arabian peninsuala (had a name I think) is a part of jambudwipa basically Asia without Russia, but if we look at the origin of the word in even more ancient text it was used to refer to our human realm kinda like ancients greeks and ancient egyptians also had similar concepts and even bible when they talk god created heavens and earth
anyway these are mostly parts who were in constant contact with India, South East Asia was already pretty close and were under Indian kingdoms for many years, India and Persia had very very good relations and to this date, India did decent amount of trade with Romans and Greeks, and the trade with whole africa or african kingdoms was either what came through persia or came directly from ports of Somalia to India, china pretty obvious
SchemingVegetable on
(Indian subcontinent)
Ancient indian 1: I think we should call this place the indian subcontinent
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Why tf are they talking about taking Afghanistan and even the Arabic peninsula so?
According to the many maps posted last week or early this week, this was not part of the “known world” so there’s no way the ancient Indians could have known about it. 🙂
Me, a Yavana native.
TIL where the name for Bangkok’s airport comes from
Jambudwipa was initially not used in a geographical sense and **Bharatvarsh** was used for Indian Subcontinent and bharatvarsh + paarsik + cheen + Swarnabhumi + Arabian peninsuala (had a name I think) is a part of jambudwipa basically Asia without Russia, but if we look at the origin of the word in even more ancient text it was used to refer to our human realm kinda like ancients greeks and ancient egyptians also had similar concepts and even bible when they talk god created heavens and earth
anyway these are mostly parts who were in constant contact with India, South East Asia was already pretty close and were under Indian kingdoms for many years, India and Persia had very very good relations and to this date, India did decent amount of trade with Romans and Greeks, and the trade with whole africa or african kingdoms was either what came through persia or came directly from ports of Somalia to India, china pretty obvious
(Indian subcontinent)
Ancient indian 1: I think we should call this place the indian subcontinent
Ancient indian 2: what the fuck is a continent
what year is it?