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Kushans and conquered
The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, first by the Sakas, and then by the Yuezhi ( who later became known as Kushans ), who had conquered Bactria by the time of the visit of the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian ( circa 127 BC ), who had been sent by the Han emperor to investigate lands to the west of China.
The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, first by the Sakas, and then by the Yuezhi ( who later became known as Kushans ), who had conquered Bactria by the time of the visit of the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian ( circa 127 BCE ), who had been sent by the Han emperor to investigate lands to the west of China.
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.
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 central
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.

Kushans and main
Gelani ( Guilani ), Albani, Hephthalites, Kushans and the Khazars were the main suppliers of this light-to medium-armoured cavalry.

Kushans and Silk
The Kushans, at the center of the Silk Road enthusiastically gathered works of art from all the quarters of the ancient world, as suggested by the hoards found in their northern capital in the archeological site of Begram, Afghanistan.

Kushans and therefore
The " Aryan " language of the inscription was a " satem " Middle Iranian language, possibly the one spoken in " Arya " or " Ariana " ( the region around modern Herat ) and was, therefore, quite possibly unrelated to the original language of the Kushans ( or the Yuezhi ), but adopted by them to facilitate communication with local people.

Kushans and had
In recognition for their support to the Chinese, the Kushans requested a Han princess, but were denied, even after they had sent presents to the Chinese court.
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.
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.
Historically attested events, such as invasions by Huns, Greeks, Kushans, Mughals and modern Europeans, may have had negligible genetic impact, and if they did it can be hard to trace it.

Kushans and control
* 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.
* 116: The Kushans, under Kanishka, establish a kingdom centered on Kashgar, also taking control of Khotan and Yarkand — previously Chinese dependencies in the Tarim Basin, modern Xinjiang.
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.
In the 1st century, the region was under the control of Kushans and several rulers of this dynasty strengthened the Buddhist tradition.
Later, around 116, the Kushans under Kanishka established a kingdom centered on Kashgar, also taking control of Khotan and Yarkand, which were Chinese dependencies in the Tarim Basin, modern Xinjiang.
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.

Kushans and trade
There were few direct trade contacts between Romans and Han Chinese, as the rivalling Parthians and Kushans were each jealously protecting their lucrative role as trade intermediaries.

Kushans and between
The Roman historian Florus also describes the visit of numerous envoys, including Seres and " Indians " ( who may have included Kushans ), to the first Roman Emperor Augustus, who reigned between 27 BC and 14 AD:

Kushans and India
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.
Kushans invaded again in the 1st century, but the Indo-Scythian rule persisted in some areas of Central India until the 5th century.
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.
Several Roman sources describe the visit of ambassadors from the Kings of Bactria and India during the 2nd century, probably referring to the Kushans.
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 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 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 ).
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.
The Kushans ultimately regained northwestern India circa 75 CE, where they were to prosper for several centuries.
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.
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 China
The security offered by the Kushans encouraged travel across the Khunjerab Pass and facilitated the spread of Mahayana Buddhism to China.
The Kushans, known as Yuezhi in China ( although ethnically Asii ) moved from Central Asia to Bactria, where they stayed for a century.
As early as 645 BCE, the Yuezhi ( known later as the Kushans ) was mentioned as supplier of the famous nephrite jade from the region to China, and the excavations of Shang dynasty ( 1600 – 1046 BCE ) tomb of Fu Hao, showed that all the jade originated from the oases area of Khotan.

Kushans and Empire
Around 230 AD, the Kushans were defeated by the Sassanid Empire and replaced by Sassanid vassals known as the Indo-Sassanids.
In addition to tributary relations with the Kushans, the Han Empire received gifts from the Parthian Empire, from a king in modern Burma, from a ruler in Japan, and initiated an unsuccessful mission to Daqin ( Rome ) in 97 CE with Gan Ying as emissary.
* 196-In Assuristan ( Parthian ruled Assyria ) Bar Daisan writes of Christians among the Assyrians, Parthians, Bactrians ( Kushans ), and other peoples in the Persian Empire
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.
For periods in the 4th and 5th centuries, the Sassanid Empire directly controlled Transoxiana and Fergana, led by the conquests of Shapur II and Khosrau I against the Kushans and the Hephthalite Empire.
The Western Kushans ( in Afghanistan ) were soon subjugated by the Persian Sassanid Empire and lost Bactria and other territories.

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