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  1. Shahrasayr

    Achaemenid Persia vs Mauryan India

    I concur. Magadha had also been expanding since the 5th century BCE at this time. The Haryanka, Shaishunaga and Nanda dynasties had been laying the groundwork for Mauryan conquest of the subcontinent for three centuries, conquering Janapadas and extracting suzerainty and setting up...
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    AHC Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization endures (2024 ed)

    All very sound points but I want to show a little resistance to the second point, as I’ve read some papers regarding nutrition and pathologies in IVC populations, especially in the expanse between Harappa and Rakhigarhi possessed a diet that consisted of both bovids and ovicaprids, with remains...
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    AHC Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization endures (2024 ed)

    I'm surprised you found the original post! My understanding of the subject remains the same after these years, thoug new research has indicated that another reason for two of the three 'spheres', Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, collapsing may have been from an increase in disease due to pathologies...
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    Saman and Gatha: A Vedic TL

    All good catches, especially Alexandria. It exists, and is a great city of antiquity, but not in the manner one might imagine. As for an Indian goddess, imagine the Mithraism process, coupled with Śramanic spread and Indian traders ranging further and wider than ever before. However this is an...
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    Saman and Gatha: A Vedic TL
    Threadmarks: Excursus II

    Translation of Tridicto’s Res et Errores Maevii or Deeds and Crimes of the House of Maevia, Excerpt from his Second Laenian oration: “Now, glorious fathers of the Senate, I turn to the most egregious of crimes Laenius Macer has committed. It is the crime of fratricide, a crime that has no...
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    Saman and Gatha: A Vedic TL

    I think they gloss over the symbol in that case as it is sort of ‘expected’ or par for the course. I can tell you this much about the modern-day ITTL, the fylkfot and swastikas are more commonly applied worldwide by whatever cultures possess them.
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    Saman and Gatha: A Vedic TL

    The next chapter will illustrate how the Kuru kingdom will be saved. But you're right that they're in a tough spot as it stands. Hopefully more will be revealed soon.
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    Saman and Gatha: A Vedic TL
    Threadmarks: Chapter VI

    CHAPTER VI The Fields Groves around Suvarnaprastha, The Bosom of Summer 1007 BCE The sound of three score horns blew in triumph as the vrā́tya host surrounded the grove in which the royal caravan now made its last stand. The royal retinue of the had been caught out by the vrā́tya van, as the...
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    Buddha converts Darius to Buddhism

    Couldn't agree more. Sassanian Zoroastrianism as depicted within the Denkard is hardly reflective of practices dating back to Classical Antiquity. And we know that Kartir's attempts to 'purify' Zoroastrianism proved detrimental to the state's relationship with the Parthian great houses. Shapur's...
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    Buddha converts Darius to Buddhism

    Zoroastrianism as we know it now wasn't at all prolific in the Iranian Plateau until the 1st century CE. The evidence provided by texts such as the Denkard don't match the archaeological or literary evidence in anyway. Hell, most of the Hellenistic world, despite being in a state of cultural...
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    Saman and Gatha: A Vedic TL

    Yeah, I hit a busy period in my life with studies and the like, meaning no more creative writing for a while. But I have more time for a little period now and especially over the next month I hope to get a few chapters done, taking us into the Altar-era and beyond. There will be a timeskip...
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    Saman and Gatha: A Vedic TL
    Threadmarks: Excursus I

    Excerpt from ‘The Corounchale and Beyond: The Socio-Political Weave of Indian Antiquity’ by K. Tyeanna 1732 “Despite the havoc wreaked by the Vrā́tya War in the Kurúkṣetra, it would be three centuries after the ennoblement of the Vátsa clan as puróhita at Índraprástha that would see demographic...
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    Real History Question: Buddhism as a State Religion

    Are you referring to early Buddhism? Which school? Which period? Which period? Because a lot of these play into it. Even if one were to take Christianity as a state religion, one could perhaps understand the power of the Pope and the various Catholic dioceses across Europe during the Middle Ages...
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    Anatolian languages and culture.

    Lycian has the best chance to survive if the Lycians incorporate better into the Achaemenid Empire and are able to enmesh themselves into the imperial power structure.
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    Hinduism and Buddhism Spreads to the Pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula by 600 AD?

    I'm being a bit cheeky, its far from universally accepted in comparative mythology, but there is such a school of thought that supposes mythemes and narrative tropes from the life of Siddhartha Gautama are mirrored in the Gospels of the Bible, to such an extent that they may be inspired by such...
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    Hinduism and Buddhism Spreads to the Pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula by 600 AD?

    First things first, it is important to remember that as important as states were in the ancient world, life did continue without them. A Roman state isn't absolutely necessary to be conducive to the spread of Buddhism in the area. We know there were shramanic communities popping up in the Near...
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    AHC: Italic Greece

    Italy during the Geometric and Archaic periods of Greece simply wasn't a place which could either politically or demographically challenge the Greek colonists that were establishing colonies throughout Magna Graecia, and it took till the end of the fifth century BCE for any Italic-origin...
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    What if Rome sends a Navy to conquer India

    Here's Casson's bit on a Roman presence in Muziris. Seland basically extrapolates from thsi that the Templum Augusti and factory in Arikamedu would have had to be constructed by legionaires given the brickwork, a skill that wasn't present in the Tamil countryindicating atleast a semi-permanent...
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    What if Rome sends a Navy to conquer India

    It's my mistake, I was referring to Arikamedu, not Madurai. And when I say legion, I mean there was a cohors from the Legio III Cyrenaica stationed there, not the entire legion. Seland has the best modern paper on Arikamedu, if you wanna look into it further. I'm sure Reich mentioned something...
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    no roman empire does the roman republic last?

    The Roman ‘Republic’, viewed through our modern anachronistic lens, was long dead by the Second Triumvirate. The Roman aristocracy had gutted itself of its manpower through infighting and internecine conflict, while also losing prestige in the eyes of the general public. The situation had been...
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