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Kushans invaded again in the 1st century, but the Indo-Scythian rule persisted in some areas of Central India until the 5th century.
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Kushans and invaded
The Kushans ruled the area as part of their larger empire until the 3rd century CE, when the Zoroastrian Persian Sassanid Empire invaded Kushan territory from the southwest.
In 90 CE the Yuezhi or Kushans invaded the region with an army of reportedly 70, 000 men, under their Viceroy, Xian, but they were forced to withdraw without a battle after Ban Chao instigated a " burnt earth " policy.
Kushans and again
The Kushans are again recorded to have sent presents to the Chinese court in 158 – 159 during the reign of the Chinese emperor Han Huan.
Kushans and 1st
From the 1st century AD to the 3rd century AD, Tokharistan was under the rule of the Kushans.
In the 1st century, the region was under the control of Kushans and several rulers of this dynasty strengthened the Buddhist tradition.
The kingdom last only briefly until its conquest by the Kushans in the late 1st century CE, and was a loose framework where many smaller dynasts maintained their independence.
During the 1st and early 2nd centuries AD, the Kushans expanded across the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent at least as far as Saketa and Sarnath near Varanasi ( Benares ), where inscriptions have been found dating to the era of the Kushan emperor Kanishka, which began about 127 AD.
The powerful Kushans expanded back into the Tarim Basin in the 1st – 2nd centuries CE, where they established a kingdom in Kashgar and competed for control of the area with nomads and Chinese forces.
The Indo-Greeks ruled various parts of northwestern India until the end of the 1st century BCE, when they were conquered by the Scythians and Kushans.
Heraios ( often read as Heraus, Heraos, Miaos ) was a clan chief of the Kushans ( reign: 1-30 CE ), one of the five constituent tribes of the Yuezhi confederacy in Bactria in the early 1st century CE, roughly at the time when the Kushans were starting their invasion of India.
But the Indo-Parthians never regained the position of Gondophares I, and from the middle of the 1st century AD the Kushans under Kujula Kadphises began absorbing the northern Indian part of the kingdom.
Their leader Gondophares temporarily displaced the Kushans and founded the Indo-Parthian Kingdom that was to last until the middle of the 1st century CE.
The first representations of the Buddha are generally assumed to be around the 1st century CE, about fifty to a hundred years later than the reign of Azes II, under the rule of the Kushans.
Kushans and century
Though Ban Chao claimed to be victorious, forcing the Kushans to retreat by use of a scorched-earth policy, the region fell to Kushan forces in the early 2nd century.
Several Roman sources describe the visit of ambassadors from the Kings of Bactria and India during the 2nd century, probably referring to the Kushans.
The Kushans, known as Yuezhi in China ( although ethnically Asii ) moved from Central Asia to Bactria, where they stayed for a century.
The Kushans were nomadic people who started migrating from the Tarim Basin in Central Asia from around 170 BCE and ended up founding an empire in northwestern India from the 2nd century BCE, after having been rather Hellenized through their contacts with the Greco-Bactrians, and later the Indo-Greeks ( they adopted the Greek script for writing ).
After the death of Azes II, the rule of the Indo-Scythians in northwestern India and Pakistan finally crumbled with the conquest of the Kushans, one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who had lived in Bactria for more than a century, and who were then expanding into India to create a Kushan Empire.
The Kushans, who were a Central Asian Tribe ( Other view, they were Turks, or Mongolian Tribe or a Chinese Tribe ), overran the entire north of India in the first century.
According to A. S. Altekar, the Yaudheys made a second bid for independence towards the end of the 2nd century AD, came out successful in their venture and succeeded in freeing their homeland and ousting Kushans.
Kushans and Indo-Scythian
They are called " Western " in contrast to the " Northern " Indo-Scythian satraps who ruled in the area of Mathura, such as Rajuvula, and his successors under the Kushans, the " Great Satrap " Kharapallana and the " Satrap " Vanaspara.
Kushans and rule
The rule of the Indo-Scythians crumbles as the Kushans, one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who lives in Bactria expand into India to create a Kushan Empire.
The Indo-Greeks ultimately disappeared as a political entity around 10 AD following the invasions of the Indo-Scythians, although pockets of Greek populations probably remained for several centuries longer under the subsequent rule of the Indo-Parthians and Kushans.
Around the time of Menander's death in 140 BC, the Central Asian Kushans overran Bactria and ended Greek rule there.
It was a cultural consequence of a long chain of interactions begun by Greek forays into India from the time of Alexander the Great, carried further by the establishment of Indo-Greek rule in the area for some centuries, and extended during flourishing of the Hellenized empire of the Kushans.
The Indo-Greeks ultimately disappeared as a political entity around 10 AD following the invasions of the Indo-Scythians, although pockets of Greek populations probably remained for several centuries longer under the subsequent rule of the Indo-Parthians and Kushans.
Kushans and some
He used an Eastern Iranian, Indo-European language known as Bactrian ( called " αρια ," i. e. " Aryan " in the Rabatak inscription ), which appears in Greek script in his inscriptions, though it is not certain what language the Kushans originally spoke ; possibly some form of Tocharian-a " centum " Indo-European language.
Chinese sources describe the Guishuang ( Ch: 貴霜 ), i. e. the Kushans, as one of the five aristocratic tribes of the Yuezhi ( Ch: 月氏 ), with some people claiming they were a loose confederation of Indo-European peoples.
There is some debate regarding the exact date for the development of the anthropomorphic representation of the Buddha, and this has a bearing on whether the innovation came directly from the Indo-Greeks, or was a later development by the Indo-Scythians, the Indo-Parthians or the Kushans under Hellenistic artistic influence.
Kushans and Central
They were successors to the Indo-Scythians, and were contemporaneous with the Kushans who ruled the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and were possibly their overlords, and the Satavahana ( Andhra ) who ruled in Central India.
Sagaris is the ancient Greek name for a shafted weapon used by the horse-riding ancient North-Iranian Saka and Scythian peoples of the great Eurasian steppe, also by the Western and Central Asian peoples: the Medes, Persians, Parthayans, Indo-Saka, Kushans, Tocharians.
With the help of these frontier martial tribes from Central Asia, Chandragupta was able to defeat the Greek successors of Alexander the Great and the Nanda / Nandin rulers of Magadha so as to found the powerful Maurya empire in northern India, at least for a short time till the Kushans and other ruler conquered north-west India.
Kushans and India
* The regions of present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and North India come under the control of the Kushans, a nomadic people forced out of northwest China by the Han Dynasty.
They were successors to the Indo-Scythians, and were contemporaneous with the Kushans who ruled the northern part of the subcontinent from the area of Mathura and were possibly their overlords, and with the Satavahana ( Andhra ) who ruled in central India.
The Kushans conquered the central section of the main Silk Routes and, therefore, had control of the overland trade between India, Persia, China and the Roman Empire.
The Tide of Victory begins the third phase of the war against the Malwa, with Belisarius appointed commander of a combined Byzantine / Persian army to invade India while Axum and the Kushans ( a tribe turned against the Malwa in the subterfuges of Fortune's Stroke ) carry out operations north and south of him.
Under the Indo-Greeks and then the Kushans, the interaction of Greek and Buddhist culture flourished in the area of Gandhara, in today ’ s northern Pakistan, before spreading further into India, influencing the art of Mathura, and then the Hindu art of the Gupta empire, which was to extend to the rest of South-East Asia.
The Kushans ultimately regained northwestern India circa 75 CE, where they were to prosper for several centuries.
This 2nd Century ancestor of the Guhilot and other Suriyavans clans had already pushed the Kushans out of North India before V. S 194 or A. D 137.
The southern or " Red " Kidarite vassals to the Kushans in the North-Western Indus valley became known as Kermikhiones, Hara Huna or " Red Huns " from 360 AD after Kidara II led a Bactrian portion of " Hunni " to overthrow the Kushans in India.
Kushans and until
As a result, for a period ( until the Chinese regained control c. 127 CE ) the territory of the Kushans extended for a short period as far as Kashgar, Khotan and Yarkand, which were Chinese dependencies in the Tarim Basin, modern Xinjiang.
The boundary of the region began changing until the Kushans and Sassanids merged to form the Kushano-Sassanian civilization.
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