BBC - In the footsteps of Alexander (into India) 21

[pitineo]

Lol :-D

[chelseafanxx]

I have heard and seen alexander's letter to his mom saying every mother has given birth to an alexander in afghanistan...how am i supposed to conquer this land...they are the bravest fighters i have seen....meaning he couldnt do it in afghanistan....and i have read a bit of afghan history which suggests its a land never ever conquered by any one...not by alexander not by ghangiz khan not by british not by russians and certainly not right now by Americans.....

[pitineo]

@chelseafanxx well Afganistan is now totally destroyed and no more fighters left, they got well tamed.

[chelseafanxx]

@pitineo now u simply seem uneducated on the current situation ....Poor u

[Kelly14UK]

Thanks for uploading this. This presenter got me into history.

[maniac7777]

Mr Himatwardakhan - If you call Ghaznavi's plundering a lowly western state of India, which he conquered once and kept coming back time and again to pick up left overs as Conquest of India, i really pity your knowledge about facts. Maybe living in caves since Adam's times has limited your scope. Open your mind to facts and move on. Its time you developed, rather keep shouting at everyone and rant about some centuries old Muslim king, who actually wasnt even from your country.

[RicRagsLive]

Seems like when people succeed a little too much, they go full on crazy and end up losing all of their friends. Their ego gets so huge that it suffocates them to death.

I wonder if it is possible to be extremely confident without having a huge ego??

[1goodIndia]

Alexander the Great stopped conquering and went back home when he got a fierce resistance from a small Indian kingdom when he entered Indian territory. (It is told he provided back the kingdom to the king after winning. So it may be actually Alexander lost).

[himatwardakafghan]

he wrote a letter to his mom when he was in AFGHANISTAN saying ( mom im involved in a land of leonine where every foot of land is like a well of steel confronting my soldiers.you have brought only one son to the world ALEXANDER.. but every child in this land can be called an alexander) and AFGHANISTAN was the 1st place where he realized he wasnt god because he was hit badly on his leg and he was injured before that he thought he was god or a super human being...

[radiolaugh]

wasn't afghanistan part of ancient India?....i mean its the same land....

[sireAndracottus]

macedonians might have come so far under a mad man who knew to kill and conquer and not to rule,but that doesn't mean greece was the strongest nation on earth,

alexander ran away scared of A confrontationwith that strongest nation,the nation called MAGADHA

[himatwardakafghan]

@sireAndracottus .. haha he indeed was the most powerfull man on earth exept AFGHANS and sorry magadha is unknown..

[sireAndracottus]

@himatwardakafghan

Magadha is unknown because we indians were a moral society and we never harmed any nation in the 5000 years of our history.....not because it was weak..

alexander backed off from a confrontation with it.......greece does not compare with the virtue,culture and gretness of Magadha...it is the only nation in human history that renounsed war inspite of being the richest and strongest...i'll give stats if you want

[himatwardakafghan]

@sireAndracottus ... nono bro u got that wrong they might be peacefull but they are not the power full!!! greeks and afghans/bactrians are the strongest people on the surface of earth now adyas AFGHANS i dont know about greeks anymore...they fight till death! theres no stop in fighting against an enemy..plus INDIA was conquered both by AFGHANS like a lil while ago for 350 years and so indians are way far lol dont even compare ya all are way behind us..

[sireAndracottus]

stop your nonsense....afghans were indians till FUCKING ISLAM CAME....you were part of indian culture....and you never ruled india...the mauryas ruled you....the mughals abandoned afghan and adopted indiai

[sireAndracottus]

@himatwardakafghan

afghan was part of india till FUCKING ISLAM CAME......i dont see how bactrians are the fiercest when they were conquered over and over again.....dont forget that all of soutyh asia was part of indian culture

[himatwardakafghan]

@sireAndracottus .. STFU!! lemme see what book tells u that ??? can u paste a linkn or someshit where AFGHANISTAN was ever ever ever part of INDIA please ill love to see it u dumb fuck go educate your self u dark ass ugly ass indian btw WTF are u doing here in this convo bitch ya all were raped by AFGHANS by rape i mean your contry was attacked 16 times only and only by one AFGHAN .. GHAZNAVI and he was victorious in all 16 of them and i got facts if u want me to paste them lemme know..

[AbdullahKhaleeji7]

@sireAndracottus

Not all Muslims are the same and if those "Muslims" from Afghanistan killed any innocent Indians, they were NOT following true Islam. In Arabian Gulf, many Arabian traders went back and forth between Arabia and India to trade spices, wood, cloth, and other items with Indians peacefully and there was never any problems. In act, many Arabians today have some Indian blood and some Arabian families come from Indian origin... The real Islam is against violence BTW I love India

[sireAndracottus]

Pataliputra was the greatest city on earth from 500 bc till 400 ad

a greek who had seen all persia,and greece said this

[thescorpionking2010]

its nt sure whether the hindu king porus lost to alexander or not,and even if he did it ws a phyrrhic victory 4 alexander his troops gt scared after tht

[berjah1]

do you now start to see the horns?

[berjah1]

now the true nature of this monster comes out....

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE

[lasog341]

alexander was beaten by the punjabis

[FilipH86]

no he was not you fool

[lasog341]

yup he was by raja umbi that is why he turned back

[FilipH86]

no for fuck sake he took punjab but his soldiers wanted to go home stop it

[karmaverick]

lol....he took punjab?where is it said like that?It isnt even sure Porus was defeated and that was in the Indo Pak border.

[FilipH86]

go look up the Battle of the Hydaspes ok.

[karmaverick]

Porus is considered a hero in those areas and Punjab is a huge place,even today there is a Punjab in Pakistan as well as India but i doubt it's said he was ever defeated. There are only greek records of a defeat of Porus.

[karmaverick]

@FilipH86 You need to go take a look at today's Punjab now. It's spans across two countries and is mainly in Pakistan.

[prakash691]

No man ,,alexander was beaten by AHIRS, AND PASHTUNS ,,not by PUNJABIS,

lol

[osgood100]

It's interesting to note that Macedonians were willing to revere his father as a God-like character. They made, dedicated and named stadiums, cities and statues after him whilst he was still alive.

[tareekhnawees]

this son of the bitch reporter even calls a helicopter a "warlord Helicopter" but this son of the bitch does not say that he also ate the "warlord food" and slept under the "warlord roof". I am sure when this son of the bitch was there he was liking the bum of the "warlord" he would have stuck-up to them all with lots of smiles to get their assistance.

[Merlkir]

I don't see why you're so angry about this word. It's just a word - means a person who rules over an area using armed men. Which is exactly what those guys are. It's not pejorative in any way. It's obvious he's grateful for their hospitality.

[GreatGrumbledook]

"Until Patroclus fell I preferred to give the Trojans quarter, and sold beyond the sea many of those whom I had taken alive; but now not a man shall live of those whom heaven delivers into my hands before the city of Ilius- and of all Trojans it shall fare hardest with the sons of Priam. Therefore, my friend, you too shall die. Why should you whine in this way? Patroclus fell, and he was a better man than you are." - I love this line! There is nothing in the world of epics then good old Homer!

[saifeestar]

Alaxender at his worest in this part of his life ... but this is not the end, watch the next video

[regginrevolver]

I am far longer than Alexander...

[sailorbggr]

alexandros united the nations again

[tsingbo169er]

his act of wanting to become a god has made him human after all, maybe it's the will to always become something better than his original self is one of the true essences of human nature, think about it, if he was a god then he wouldn't want to become something more powerful right?

[antoniostarlizos]

@tsingbo169er wow dude... that's réally deep

[aalexander928]

What pathos! Alexander goes from being a man-warrior into thinking he was a god. Most of our leaders go from being nerds to acting like gods. How long for them?

[cenapxx]

To terrorist.That city is Balkh,then its name was Bactra.

[terrorist022]

which is this city?

[alexandros1821]

Balkh is in northern Afghanistan, a very ancient and integral city, today it little little more than a small town.

Glad you enjoyed the documentary Baktash.

[HowayaBeoir]

Thanks for uploading these vids, there very good. Unfortunatly I should be studying instead of watching them, but wat the hell.

[1TuBe1983]

HowayaBeoir, this is educational anyway, so technically you were studying ;)

[Baktash86]

Thank you very much for all Alexander movies...Alexander liked Afghanistan and on that time samarqand and bukhara belonged to Afghanistan, Actually i have hear and read that alexander lost in Afghanistan, he became sick and wek in Afghanistan. we have many macedonian ppl in afghanistan from Alexanders time, they live in Nuristan in Afghanistan.

[englishspear]

Are you really from Afganistan? You ll not live there I guess..

[beerobarDOTcom]

so am i, the pictures you saw of afghanistan in this duc was from 1997, now just in 7 years the entire country has developed ones again immensely. like berlin, and london after the wars, all dust, afghanistan spent 3 big wars like that, in recent history starting from british to russian, and than al qayeda [the terrorists]

[m3gas1]

i hope what you say is of some truth, id be nice to see afghanistan regain its former prominence, before the imperialist invasions scarred her.

[GoldenMustang1]

I am from Pakistan and indeed our Afghan brothers have rebuild there beautiful country. We the Paks just dont like the Indian involvement there. Afghans r our brothers and let us help them and solve our problems, the outsiders can remain out.

[beerobarDOTcom]

thanks m3, and golden thank you very much bro.. right now everyone is involved in the country :)

[indrajeet]

How have you bebuilt anything - lol afghanistan is a war torn mess and thats what they have made it.

[prakash691]

same as Pakis involvement in india,,Indians involvement in paki and afghans,afghanistan nation better have trust on indian government ,not on paki govt. lol..and yes Paki was a part of india before 1947 ..it was called Greater India

[FygeApoDoReVromokole]

Free Persia from the Arabs!! Respect from Greece.

what a great story. what a great Nation. what a great documentary.

[prakash691]

so tell Arabs to stop Arabinization of Persia and Afghanistan

[fayaztarin]

what?? lol.. the invasion of afghanistan wasnt that easy and short.. Read "In to the Land of the Bones, Alexander the great in Afghanistan"  FOR MORE INFO

[alexandros1821]

Indeed, ancient Afghanistan was quite difficult for Alexander to hold and warranted his intervention many times.

Ironically, I JUST started reading "into the land of the bones" yesterday evening, LOL !

Much respect to the Afghans,

- Alexandros from Greece

[beerobarDOTcom]

u know we have millions of greeks right now living in a province of ours called Nooristan? i actually had a friend macedonian in prague [czech republic] whos family told me about that lol as an afghan i didnt know that.. until they told me they had read about them in a book..

[9872122103]

@alexandros1821

at that time , afghans didnt existed. the indo-scythians were there.

it wouldbe an insult to them to call them afghans...

[Afgsusan1]

@alexandros1821 much respect to you Alexandros

~Susan from Afghanistan

[amareto35]

@fayaztarin He couldn't successfully occupy Afghanistan, you are right...

[mrmontyy]

freddie mercury was zoroastrain living in india

[alexandros1821]

The Greeks though, did something other conquerors such as the British,Russians never did, permanently settle the area after conqueroring it.

[Gracchi]

@alexandros1821

Every English speaking nation in the world?

[Paravasi]

you lie

[jprithvi]

What about Mongols, Kushans, Mughals etc?

[OziNasio]

well your monkey ass country is facing death...while his decedents are still Living in glory

[zigsauer]

Sikander till today is Greatest Hero in Afghanistan !

Even at the time of taliban rule the only thing in the Kabul Museum ws a Bust of Alexander !

[Shaber2007]

This is to say that this historian guy made a mistake while placing Afghanistan as being conquered right after Persia and yet we know He had the hardest time in Afghan land and finally he had to marry the child of the local Pakhtrian so he can win the heards of Afghans.

[ndjarnag]

Cheers!

[GenericGene]

Thanks for the great educational posting of this series, I have read much of Alexander over the years, this series has answered many questions. Great Post.

[Thessalonik1]

What a truly amazing contribution, thanks much again !!!!

[ramesh45]

This bbc documentary is absolutely amazing. Some of the footage in this documentary is remarkable, specially the one where he is walking through the great halls of the Persian palace in 12th episode Persian Gates . I am a Zoroastrian and to see those images is amazing. I cant wait for more.......

[RobHorton1]

Yea, lots of Persians and Kurds (and not only) are starting to convert to Zoroasrtianism more and more, definately fascinating to say the least.

Thanks for the videos, look forward to the rest !

[maikothegreek]

whats a Zoroastrian

[m3gas1]

It's an ancient religion, basically its based off Ahura Mazda and the teachings of Zoroaster. This was the religion of ancient Persia.

Great vid Alexandre !

[zberlin32]

I think they still practice Zoroastrian today in Iran

[Thessalonik1]

of course they do, all though few in number and seriously discrminated against more and more Persians are converting back to their ancestral religion !!!

[zberlin32]

Could be yet one more fatality of Islam. Islam was not designed to be tolerant of other religions. Be it as it may. According to wikipedia, the total population of people practicing this ancient religion is less than 200,000. Most are concentrated in central iran and india.

[walwop]

oh please islam says nothing of the sort so please learn about islam not from the media but by reading the quran, because to understand a relegion you shouldent look at the practitionars but the source of the relegion which in our case is the holly quran

[antonyfrb]

Thanks and keep up the good work alexandros1821.

[phygos2003]

More please :)

[1stNeoSpartan]

thanks man!!!!!!

[RoibyG]

thanks alexandros1821, BBC should be paying you for this.....