BBC - In the footsteps of Alexander (Porus) 25

[Varoonmg]

I like the General, he looks fun...

[ModernWarfare2vsODST]

versed*

[ModernWarfare2vsODST]

well rehearsed general...

[khufyahath]

All these areas are in Pakistan now.

[manoloxbenito]

@khufyahath

Was... Now is the land of the terrorists.

[zartashah]

PAKISTAN.....................



[sailordoc2007]

The General's clearly a chip of the old block... he must have been a well known instructor during his time at staff college quetta

[MKDBukefal]

Why u greeks are lying and just lying??? how can Alexander Macedonain be greek when his father was Macedonian and he and his son were fucking ur mother Athina in the battle of Charenoa...true greeks are turkish and macedonians u guys are ciganians who liee and just lieee u want to stole our history..but u guys just can't !!!!! OUR TIME WILL COME AGAIN WHEN WE WILL DESTROY U !!! MACEDONIA TIMELLES !!! ~~ WHO ARE U TO TELL ME WHAT IAM?? IAM MACEDONIAN SON OF SUN !!!

[dimstiv]

@MKDBukefal actually you are a Slavic that came to the balkans in 6th century AD

[DarkFilmDirector]

@MKDBukefal The Macedonian identity was a unique culture in that time, part Dorian Hellenic, part Thracian, part Paeonian. Paeonia, which is where 'FYROM' is today, was not in that time period Hellenic at all, it was far closer to Illyro-Thracians. Today, the people who inhabit 'FYROM' or Macedonia, are mostly a Bulgaric people with little relation to the inhabits of the historical region of Macedonia, in today's Greece. Alexander himself was half-Macedonian, half-Epirote.

[ThePseudoBasher]

Porus was a Hindu

[AFGRULZ26]

CHATTOS123 He dint follow the Hindu thingy dint u see in the other episode for alexander and his army the indian culture and religion was very confusin and bizarre that made them more curuious who wont comeone HINDU belived cow is there mother and here we eat cow every day LMAO

[maniac7777]

@AFGRULZ26

And rest of the world laughs at you coz your brethren are busy blowing themselves up and screwing peace and harmony all over the world. When will you grow up and get over 'gloating-coz-we-eat-cows' and look at yourself. And when someone says something, suddenly you start feeling victimized and generalized. You give respect, you get respect. Indians can live with label of cow worshipers, but dont cry when when you are called T all over the world. Everyone can fight dirty.

[clodhopper2010]

Some of the facts are igoned and whitelabled by western historians. It is well known that that Alexender got badly hurt after 3 deadly wars with Porus(Purushotam) .. who was 7.5 feet tall and great king. He was badly hurt in the war, and died on the way back to Greece(after his soldier unanimously requested for return.. he was also on his deathbed so he agreed)....

After his death his Army wondered around to various part of Noth West Frontier of India(now in pakistan)...

[chattos123]

@smartnpisces He worshiped the god of greece..but if you really look close, you will find that these are the same same God as the vedic indian gods.ya its true...even trough old sanskrit and greek..you will find that, and its damn true that indian, iranian and greeks are real aryan brothers.

[partyhat3]

terrorists

[chaudhrybaadshah]

I am proud to be from Jhelum

[trident102002]

Alexander's religion? Definitely not Islam.

[Thisisthefuture100]

@trident102002 I will give you the benefit of the doubt and ask you: What do you mean?

[smartnpisces]

which religion alexander belongs ???any one know ???

[alexandros1821]

@smartnpisces

He was a worshiper of the 12 Olympian Gods of Ancient Greece

[MikeSV1989]

@alexandros1821

And Later, of Himself! Like I am! He's my Supreme, Ultimate Idol! As he is the Supreme Warrior! The Greatest Man that ever Lived!

[Zeuxis5511]

ALexander was following the Worship of Zeus and the Greek Pantheon. The most Holy town in Greece was Dion at Mt Olympus in Macedonia. Before he started his expedition to Asia he and his army made offers to Zeus in Dion.

[proudtobeKVian]

@smartnpisces hellenic paganism in modern terms

[headstonedrive]

its lovely and also its belong to my village so am very glad to see that thanx for putting on youtube... irfan gondal 004478723344339

[sonnyg121]

list of countries with the highest gdp's

[kaloya379]

Legend has it that when Porus finally faced Alexander after days of war and surrender, Alexander asked "how should I treat you now?" and Porus replied "exactly how a king should treat another king". This has been used as a proverbial statement in Pakistani culture, "if you want to be treated like a king you've got to act like one".

[Kellystarrr]

My ancestry is from Jhelum..Lot of ppl with light eyes i.e green, blue, grey and light hair, fair skinned, caucasion look-alike live those ends..Maybe Greek heritage? God knows!.

[manoloxbenito]

@kaloya379

WTF? Pakistani culture? There is no "Pakistani culture". Only Islamic culture.

By the way, you are following Indian culture unawarely.

[kaloya379]

@manoloxbenito sounds like you have some anger and frustration issues, Porus was in the land which is now Pakistan, whatever happens in PK today is PK culture it has been surely shaped and influenced by many cultures including Greek, Arab, Persian, Indian and others just like many other places. We are citizens of a global world, don't tell me you believe that some were born with a nobility stamp on their ass. My comment was just to mention with what grace and affection Porus is quoted. Peace :)

[spidermunkey1]

I was just about to say that everytime he does something difficult he does it at night and in the snow!

[grandmaster11x]

lol always when alexander does something its "pitch dark" and its night^^

[Gwynarra]

makes sense. That way you couldn't see him or his men coming. In WW2 the allies switched to night bombing for that reason cuz they were losing so many planes during day bombing.

[grandmaster11x]

yeah guess ur right^^ i just laughed at the fakt that its always repeated again and again how dark it was every night^^

[garyU6969]

1:59 he says "hurry up, For god sake" in english but its in hindi rite?

[giantgrave]

Other than that ,before coming to Jehlum, Alexander had crushed a rebellion in Sogdiana and hanged every man of that city. This shows what a brutal man he was. A brutal man like him can't spare a King.

And than what happened here if they even got here? His army crapped in its pants when Porus said, 'thousands of such small states lie ahead' and they started begging Alexander to return home. Than in a small town of Maloi Alexander got shot by an arrow....And Greeks fled

[GRmegas]

Alexander reestablished Porus not only because of his bravery but MORE IMPORTANTLY he used Porus intel on neighboring kingdoms, he used Porus land to station garrisons and host more exploring missions eastward while strengthening his line to Persia, he used Porus' war elephants and of course men in battle against neighboring Indian tribes as well.

re-establishing Porus bought Alexander less trouble in an already chaotic environement. It was a must move.

[5041042]

yes ur rite GIANTgrave iz illetrate asshole

[giantgrave]

Tell me one thing... How can a king who crucifies all the men of a place called ''Sogdiana'' for rebellion, spare a King who inflicted heavy losses on his men? He not only spared him but also gave him control of Punjab according to Arrian. Now we all know that Arrian came 400 years after Alexander. He was just another greek who wanted to proove the superiority of Greeks. Just like Herodotus, Arrian was a born liar.

[5041042]

GIANT GRAVE madrchood ur fuckn ass hole fuck ur mothr.i thnk ur supporting poros alone caz he waz ur dad ask ur mother dat reveal dat truth to u dat 1 day ur mom waz also fucked by poros datz why u.teri maa di phudi wich mirchan lagyian han poros tara pyo hay man teri nu lan maran pan chod gashti day bachya.maa teri da kussa poros he cheerya si .maaa nu lan he maray kolun v maa di phudi marwani aa.poros day putra maadar chod gandua.maaa teri nu yeh dayanga phudi yawan da.

[faithlessgr]

Funny thing is that Pakistanis are taking all over Greece as we speak. There's thousands of Pakistani imigrants smuggled in from Turkey in the last few years. In some places they're more than the locals.

[Ammari7]

Actually Indus was the heart of the civilization in the Western subcontinent. It was knowning the 7th century as Sindh. This eventually became modernday Pakistan. The Gangetic civilization became known as Hindh. Modernday Bangladesh and India. The cultures are two completely and separate civilizations. It was only during Muslim Mughal rule that they were one empire.

[lbantu]

ever dog has luck now a days greeks are weak ..contry....then india or pakistan...

do you have power of fight agenst india or pak..hahahah

[moreira9001]

greece has the 18th economy in the world with only 12 million ppl. india is developing very fast, but it is still by and large a third world country, its gdp per capita is incredibly low, greece's is higher than france and germany. dont talk about pakistan, thats a joke right? and dont try to flex ur muscles against a country like greece, u end up looking like an idiot.

[scarface2088]

Matey Pakistan is a joke, what you on about. The pakistani military would crush greece anytime. We are not talkingabt economics.Pakistan has enemies trying to destabise it, but that wont happen once we defeat these enemies can yo compare it with any country, its a country at war where greece is stable, if greece was fighting and bombs were exploding everyday, you guys would have collapsed by now, just shows how strong the ppl of pakistan actually are.

[moreira9001]

sorry mate, theres no comparing pakistan to greece. in almost every parameter greece is far superior. isnt it abit stupid to hypothesise about something that in 4bln years will never happen? yet i can tel u that if there was a war between greece and pakistan, a well-trained, advanced greek army would surely defeat a poorly trained, and overall poorly manned pakistani one. you wouldnt ever use the nukes america donated to u and size of army doesnt mean anything nowadays its not the middle ages.

[scarface2088]

What happened when the turks whopped us ass for 4 hundred years, I bet you though you was far superior to them aswell. Listen what happened 3000 years ago doesnt really matter. who is ALEXANDER, some homosexual twat who got lucky.

[moreira9001]

and the byzantine empire? that lasted 1100 years..that ended when the turks conquered the greeks in 1453, yes 400 years of turkish domination from that point. and when did 'pakistan' begin as a concept? your land was ruled by foreign tribes your entire history. Only 2 foreign tribes ever ruled the greek world. the romans and the turks. Alexander is widely regarded as the most successful military commander and empire builder in history.

[moreira9001]

im not telling you each individual greek is superior to each individual pakistani. yet as nations, in terms of history, culture and influence, your country looks very weak in comparison to greece. going back to ur previous comment the greeks fought their many wars and the last war the greeks lost was in 1453-the collapse of the byzantine empire to the ottomans. you aren't at war with anyone apart from the various factions within ur own state.

[scarface2088]

The land which is modern day pakistan an extremely rich history and culture, even before the greeks existed, this land was home to great civilisations that were way ahead of their time. Just look at the indus river civilisations, take look at the city of Taxila. You forgot the Mughals who formed a mightly empire. Greeks influenced the modern European nations and are bigged up because at this point in history the west is powerful. Pakistan has existed for 60 yrs, only time will tell its potential

[moreira9001]

yes there is huge culture in the indus region (although i must remind you that the mughal empire was an islamic turkic offshoot of the Timurid Empire, that was based in central India not Pakistan). The Greeks laid the foundations of Western civilisation in the Ancient world ,they spread their culture over their vast empires through the hellenistic age, and the Byzantine Empire was the most powerful state for 1000 years uptil 1453 and its conquest by the turks.Its not possible to compete with tht

[moreira9001]

the reason the west big them up is largely due to their propagation of christianity. if it wasnt for the byzantines, there would be no christianity in western europe, we'd all be muslim, so thats probably a reason.

btw congratulations to pakistan for the victory over south africa, hope you guys win it! gd luck

[5041042]

"ALWAYS THINK BE4RE U SPEAK"individual greek is superior then an individual pakistani. do greeks have horns on their heads so that they r superior.we belong to a strong nation and a stong religion not like u having gods and goddes of different kinds.u wer superior in da past but look in present we are atomic power keep dat word in mind ''ATOMIC POWER'' ok remember it.now it is not an an ancient age. our armies can crush ur armies down before u rise.we r stonger then any 1 even americans.

[moreira9001]

be clever my friend. learn to read. i said that each individual greek is NOT superior to each individual pakistani. and dont be brainwashed ur a third world country, why is it tht in greece there are almost half a milion of u selling bananas on the side of motorways? the US gave u nuclear weapons as india had them and they needed a balance of power in the region. and if you hvnt noticed greece has been christian for 1700 years, and was ruler of the most powerful christian state for 1000 of them.

[moreira9001]

and u aint stronger than the americans either lmao

[5041042]

us cant kill hand full of talibans even frm 7 or 8 years how can they kill a whole nation with same anthusiasm like talibans.u kno wt power we have u catholics r jews dnt have .and dats why talibans r fighting among the world no 1 power and r still undefeated.we have islam .did u read great batlle of badar when 313 muslims defeated more then 1000 of kafirs anti muslims.we have firm faith in god.ann im proud to be a muslim.dnt thnk we r like iraq r afganistan we r pakistan.a great mulim power.

[giantgrave]

5041042 what the fuck are u talking about?! The original people of Jehlum were Hindhus and we still respect our brave past and still take pride in our Hindhu ancestory . And this is still is OUR land! We will fuck mothers of Taliban if they try to step into OUR land. We don't accept invaders....We dont accept outsiders here...

And BTW are you a descendant of Arabs? Because if you are, you suck! All arabs are sons of whores....

[PashtunDefence]

lol giantgrave hahaha the british is a good example of ur so called resistance hahaha!

[giantgrave]

PashtunDefence. Do some research first. We only sided with British because of our sworn enemy Sikhs. They never invaded our land. We owned all the lands in Jehlum and the Nawab was from our tribe, whom the British greatly respected. We never paid taxes to anyone.

We are not like you Afghanis who auction their women...And go read about Kassak fort, a fort that resisted numerous Pushtun invasions.

[giantgrave]

And if our army is cowardly, where are the Taliban now? :D

How often do they fight army? we lost like 150 men in Swat and killed 2000 LOL. You guys can only attack police and don't even think about fighting army.

[giantgrave]

Plus dont forget what Sikhs did to you :D

[giantgrave]

And in Present day Pakistan army, 70% of the soldiers are from Jehlum(and former part of Jehlum, Chakwal).

And BTW if Greeks came here, where are they now? They are living in mountains LOL. We didn't give them our land and kicked those homosexuals out of our fertile land.

And if US gave us Nuclears than why did they placed sanctions on us and why did they try to sabotage our plan while it was still in development.

[PashtunDefence]

hahaha giantgrave u lost all three wars to ur hindu and sikhs cousin across ur border and u explect to beleive those ugly ass jawans from Punjab are tough! all we need to do is cutt electrcity being pumped from NWFP and stop gas and oil from Bolochistan and u will see ur Punjabi shits waiting in line at a hindu temple wanting to revert to anybody who has money! u r born cowards and not real worriors! read ur history,u were ohh so welcoming to any invader especially the british haha!

[5041042]

ur rite theze hinduz wer mthrfckn slaves of great muslim kingz.and thry r aware of there history

[giantgrave]

Electricity from NWFP comes from hindko regions and Hindko people are Punjabis. Pashtuns always used rogue tactics like suicide bombings ,ambush etc. Pushtun lands were always under Mongols or Persians. The first Pushtun ruler was Abdali who aided Nadir Shah against Abdali tribe.

If Punjab stops its wheat and stops letting Pakistan use its trade goods and steel and cement, NWFP will surely turn into dust.

[giantgrave]

You Greeks have 12th largest economy because you dont have proper enemies. You dont really have to invest in defence. Whereas we are surrounded by Enemies like India, Afghanistan, Soviet Union (were) and Israel.

About Greek army pawning Pakistan Army...LOL!!! DONT KID ME!! Our Army has fought 4 wars with India and still is fighting Taliban. Our airforce is highly acclaimed. Our army soldiers are even admired by Indians. Whereas Greek got pawned by Tukey LOL

[5041042]

giantgrave ur a mthrfckn pakistani ha ha looooooool fuck u im pakistani tooo but live in uk and im belong to jhelum u asshole.poros fuck poros.

[friendofheaven]

pakistan is beautifull

[5041042]

kahlashi peoples shoud force to be muslims cauz these r rights of humans to move towards good relegion what is relegion of kahlashi peoples who even dnt respect their dead bodies and throw them to animals to eat in open this is really called as respect of human beings which kahlashi peoples r doin. so thats why they should be and force to become muslims so they can have respect in world.and thier boring dances every pakistani hate kahlashi people.

[meq08ha]

they have every right to live a life of their own choosing

[5041042]

alexender the great king of the warriors and a brave man from the past . ilive in jhelum and and feel my self lucky because 1nce this land waz won by the king of warrior "alexender the great" who defeated the hindu raja poros a poor man with poor army. alexender is still fresh in minds of people of jhelum. may u live in heaven.

[islamicraperokam]

hey am live near of Jhelum river

but now am in spain

nice video

[AeroplanumMaximum]

Alexander: conqueror, thinker, tyrant, and moreover yet, a man who valued honor and distinction in his enemies.

Certainly there is a clear lack of such men in this world.

[TitosHaluciNation]

King Poros of India, to Alexander, who plunders cities:I instruct you to withdraw. What can you, a mere man, achieve against a god? Is it because you have destroyed the good fortune of others by meeting weaker men in battle that you think yourself more mighty than me? But I am invincible: not only am I the king of men, but even of gods—when Dionysus (who they say is a god) came here, the Indians used their own power to drive him away.

[TitosHaluciNation]

So not only do I advise you. but also I instruct you, to set off for Greece with all speed. I am not going to be frightened by your battle with Darius or by all the good fortune you had in the face of the weakness uf the other nations. But vou think von are more mighty. So set off for Greece. Because if we had needed Greece, we Indians would have subjected it long before Xerxes; but as it is, we have paid no attention to it- because it is a useless nation, and there is nothing among them worth.

[Zeuxis5511]

Greeks conquored India thice in Mythological 1) Prometheus in IndoCaucasus = Indokush

2) Dionysus

3) Heracles the Dactyl King of Crete (later known as Greatest hero)

and once under historical ages. by Alexander The Great. The Greco-Indian Kingdom under Greeks ruled from Afghanistan to East Pakistan (both Indus and Ganges rivers were under Greek control for more than 300 years after Alexander the Great. The Vedic scripts were written during that time period. The stories are of course older.

[Kellystarrr]

You idiot the Hercules, Premethoesu etc are not real, they never ruled India or Pakistan...Alexandrer the Great did but not these fairy tales u idiot...Gosh!.

[Zeuxis5511]

You should be careful of telling us what is real what is real or what is unreal. If you are short-mineded just follow the school books. If you are wide minded you will find other sources. When Alexander came to IndoKush he found the Hellenic Pantheon worshipped already there. Mt Kalaish (Mt Meru) is also called the Pyramid of Dionysus.

[TitosHaluciNation]

Alexander, to King Poros, greetings: You have made us even more eager to be spurred on to battle against you by saying that Greece has nothing worth the regard of a king but that you Indians have everything—lands and cities. And i know that every man desires to seize what is better rather than to keep what is worse. Since, then, WE Greeks do not have thesethings and you barbarians possess them, we desire what is better and wish to have them from you.

[5041042]

come to pakistan and cee the signs of defeat of raja poros from" Alexender The Great "and i think ur an indian thats why ur not accepting ur defeat.even if u defeated .but it is reality that poros waz defeated badly by Alexender The Great

[giantgrave]

And fucking brainwashed bitch you are supporting Alexander who was a Pagan over another pagan, Porus? Porus wasn't defeated badly you illiterate retard.

[Warcrime111]

The story of alexander the great is nothing but crap written by greeks themselves.

The source that we read Alexander's history from is a book written by the greek historian Arrian.Arrian came 400 years after Alexander! How can we read greek history that was written 400years after alexander?!

When you read the history of ALexander the great, it seems like you are reading Lord of the Rings.

We only read the story of Alexander in greek accounts and its overly exaggerated and 50% is a lie.

[Hammadkazmi7]

izlam should leave kalash people alone they have nothing aganist from ev1l izlam

why in fok izlam aganist them north west forunter should name kalashanistan make them free

[LIVERLADD]

@walwop

Its rather a large "Few"

[cryoslave88]

Edward Said has an eloquent understanding of this behaviour.  He coined it orientalism.

[GBart]

@walwop Still, I've never heard of a Jain, a Buddhist, or an atheist strapping a bomb to himself or hijacking a plane.

[hrp42]

@walwop

Islamic Invaders have forcefully converted thousand of people when they conquered India. Later Aurangzeb committed mass genocide of Hindus and tried to convert them in Islam... Shikh religion was formed to fight the Islamic rule... It was the great Maratha and Rajput rulers who fought that invaders and saved Hindus.... That's the reason why Hinduism still exist in India... and by the way we all know that no religion is bad but only few followers are bad who denounce the religion....

[Simmacus]

Islam should leave alone Kalash people and all peoples including European peoples. Kalash people are under islamic pressure and there are plenty of videos here in Youtube to prove it. Kalash people religion is very similar to the ancient European religions, before Christianism, they were already there when Alexander the Great arrived to India. Were was islam? Muslims should pay respect to Kalashes and stop trying to islamize them. And stop trying to islamize Europe, Alexander's homeland.

[manoloxbenito]

@Simmacus

So true. Islam is a disease.Fuck it!

[Gringoman911]

The Kalash get their name from Shalakash (Seleucus).

[realsoulja]

More Detail of the Battle of Hydaspes should have been given.

This was one of the toughest battles Alexander ever fought.

[nishmat]

this is truly an amazig documentary, alexander seemed to walk all over the world!

[aronboylloyd123]

great series

[alcapone786]

awesome video.. I always thought Pakistani (Native Panjabi, Pashtoon, SIndhi, Baloch) had a different ''Look'' to them.. this is soo interesting!!!!!

[guymed1]

Good Video, Kallash are Greec in Pakistan. Niazi also have european/Jewish heritage.

[nangamujra]

not only kelaash ...but the afridis in pakistan are greece too.....

[Paravasi]

have you more information about this please?

[kunzshah]

i belong to that area but my ethnic background is arab not s indian but still raja porras is remained in our local folk stories along with alexander porras raja is symbol of bravery, when alexander asked how shall i treat you he replied the way a king treat another king

[m3gas1]

are the kalash seperate from the kafridis ? as far as i know they are the same group of peoples and still beleive in paganistic religions hence why they are all "kafirs" in Islam.

[walwop]

kafridis? whats that i belive your talking about afridies and no there not pagans they are muslim

[m3gas1]

im sorry dear friend, i was thinking of the nuristanis !

[prashanthosur]

what do south asian historias have to say about this? any ideas?

[kunzshah]

i belong to that area but my ethnic background is arab not s indian but still raja porras is remained in our local folk stories along with alexander porras raja is symbol of bravery, when alexander asked how shall i treat you he replied the way a king treat another king

[meq08ha]

I belong to islamabad the capital of Pakistan and about 80 km away from the place where Porus faced Alexander

Porus is still revered as a hero over here and his name resonated in the local folk lores

[karmaverick]

Do they call him Porus or Purushottam?

[m3gas1]

amazingly informative, thanks very much

[ndjarnag]

...I would not want to swim in that water.

[Thessalonik1]

that "general" sure is quite the character, lol. great vid, thanks

[RobHorton1]

just what i was waiting for, thank you very much