Greco-Bactrians and Indo-Greeks dominating Persia and India

In OTL the Greco Bactrian Kingdom conquered parts of India [183-180 BC] just before a revolt in Bactria split the kingdom into two parts [179 BC], with the old dynasty ruling the Indo-Greek state and the usurpers ruling the Greco-Bactrian state.

So, my question is: What would happen if the usurpation doesn't happen? Would the Greeks rise to dominate Central Asia, Persia, and [at least most of] India? Could the division still happen, but by design like the division of the Roman Empire? What would be the impact on the relation between East [including China] and the West?
 
The collapse of Greek power in India and Persia wasn’t caused by this political division—in fact, the Indo-Greeks held on until roughly 10 AD. The real existential threat to the Greeks in this region was nomadic invasions by groups like the Scythians and Yuezhi, something I can’t see being butterflied even by a unified Perso-Baktrian state.

Besides, the decentralization of this era makes it likely that the Indo-Greeks would inevitably pull towards independence.

I really don’t think the Baktrian nation could have survived indefinitely—the nomadic threat was just too strong. The Indo-Greeks, however, might have possibly survived had they pushed farther into OTL Rajputana and/or the Gangetic plain and become a lasting force in India. After a few centuries, they would simply become another Indian nation, practically indistinguishable from their neighbors except for the use of Greek in the upper classes and especial patronage of Buddhism.
 
Couldn't they have dominated the Parthians and conquered parts of the Seleucid Empire?

They’d need to hold off the nomadic migrations at the same time, something that they weren’t able to do IOTL. In general nomadic nations always held the upper hand militarily against sedentary nations, right up until gunpowder AFAIK.

You might be able to butterfly specific nomadic invasions and kill two birds with one stone—something I used in a mini-TL I wrote once about a lasting Indo-Greek state. Essentially, have there be a Seleukid civil war right as the Yuezhi are moving across Persia and have the latter choose to take advantage of it instead of pressing east, causing both groups to fight each other and give the Baktrians some necessary breathing space. Of course, a few centuries down the line some other nomadic group will probably come knocking...
 

Albert.Nik

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Graeco-Bactrians and(update it using slash) Indo-Greeks is not the correct way of saying. Both refer to the same thing. Possible if they weren't bombarded by invasions by Kushans(Tocharians) and Scythians. Like how Romans Romanized and took in the Gauls/Celts,Etruscans,illyrians and Pheonicians,Middle Easterners of that era,etc,they could have been expanded into Tarim and Scythia taking in them and Hellenizing the region by culture like Rome did but Gaulish,Semitic languages were spoken in good amount of pockets. That could work but how they would resist the Huns is a question. A Charlamagne/Clovis/Martel like Indo-Greek emperor could manage the Huns and the Mongols.
 
Graeco-Bactrians and(update it using slash) Indo-Greeks is not the correct way of saying. Both refer to the same thing. Possible if they weren't bombarded by invasions by Kushans(Tocharians) and Scythians. Like how Romans Romanized and took in the Gauls/Celts,Etruscans,illyrians and Pheonicians,Middle Easterners of that era,etc,they could have been expanded into Tarim and Scythia taking in them and Hellenizing the region by culture like Rome did but Gaulish,Semitic languages were spoken in good amount of pockets. That could work but how they would resist the Huns is a question. A Charlamagne/Clovis/Martel like Indo-Greek emperor could manage the Huns and the Mongols.

A steppe nomad state with Greco-Bactrian culture? Someone write a timeline about this.
 

Albert.Nik

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A steppe nomad state with Greco-Bactrian culture? Someone write a timeline about this.
The Transoxania,Southern Steppe,Tarim Basin was quite fertile for large settled empires. The Tocharians and Scythians unlike Anatolians,Levantines and Egyptians were not that evolved yet so it would be a bit difficult but still could be done if the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom had the will.
 
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